摘要:
A self-aligned, lateral bipolar transistor is disclosed having at least one insulated metal gate for control of the base. The device has a Semiconductor-On-Insulator structure that reduces parasitic capacitances. Proper gate control provides a high and controllable gain of the device and also turns off the parasitic transistors. The device achieves variable, high gains as well as high frequencies due to the use of the gate. It requires no masking or doping manufacturing steps in addition to those used in making standard CMOS circuits, and is CMOS compatible. In a preferred embodiment, a second insulated metal back gate is used to further enhance the operation of the device.
摘要:
A traveling-wave tube (10) has a confined-flow periodic permanent magnet focusing arrangement (26) in which either the first magnet (60f) or the third magnet (60t) from the electron gun (12) has an extent or axial thickness along the electron stream path which is one-half that of the remaining magnets in the arrangement, thereby providing a scalar magnetic potential of essentially zero on the electron gun pole piece (46), thereby eliminating the field reversal at the cathode (14). This enables a magnetic field to be provided in the region of the electron gun between the gun pole piece (46) and a location behind the cathode due solely to the magnetic field leaking through the gun pole piece aperture (50). The axial magnetic field within the electron gun (12) may be tailored or fine tuned, by varying the size of the aperture (50) in the gun pole piece (46).
摘要:
An imaging system incorporating a scanned array of infrared detectors for a presentation of scene data on a display includes gain normalization and averaging circuitry coupled to individual ones of the detectors of the detector array. The gain normalization is accomplished with gain control circuitry structured as a feedback loop introducing equality between the magnitude of an average value of a detector signal and a reference signal. The imaging system comprises a set of channels connecting with respective ones of the detectors, each channel having a gain control circuitry. A common value of the reference signal is applied to each channel. The averaging time is several times greater than the duration of a single scan in the scanning of the detector array so as to introduce gain normalization to subject matter which is substantially uniform throughout a swath of the scene swept by a detector while leaving image points of relatively small objects unaffected by the gain normalization. The display is relatively free of nonuniformities associated with differing responsivities of the detectors to infrared radiation.
摘要:
A digital-based phase shift keying modulating device is disclosed. A phase code command signal is applied to an exemplary bi-phase shift keying modulating (BPSK) device designed in accordance with the present invention to phase reverse by 180.degree. the output signal produced by the device. The exemplary BPSK modulating device is capable of producing an output signal of either triangular or sinusoidal shape. A preferred embodiment of the exemplary device is implemented by using a single exclusive OR logic gate in conjunction with a frequency synthesizer, which is comprised of an accumulator, an output register, and a group of exclusive OR logic gates. The modulator device has a variety of applications in digital communication systems such as, for example, ground-based and spacecraft communication systems. The disclosed BPSK modulating device is particularly useful in spacecraft data link communications systems wherein weight, volume, and power consumption are at a premium.
摘要:
A packet switching node which processes data packets containing routing tag signals indicative of the output port destination thereof and which routes these data packets to the specified output ports. A plurality of queue selectors are individually coupled between a plurality of input ports and a plurality of queue sets that comprise a plurality of queues which store and forward data packets applied thereto as a function of output port destination. Each of the plurality of queue selectors sort the data packets applied thereto in accordance with the output port destination thereof. The queues of each queue sets are coupled to different output arbitrators which control routing to a particular output port. The packet switching node eliminates the problem of contention between data packets arriving at an input port of the node whose destinations are different output ports. The packet switching node sorts applied data packets according to output port destination to reduce contention and hence has improved performance and higher throughput. The present invention also contemplates a method of processing applied data packets containing routing tag signals indicative of the output port destinations to which the data packets are to be applied. The method comprises sorting and storing the data packets in accordance with the routing tag signals, arbitrating among data packets that have been stored that contend for the same output port, and then routing the selected data packet to the output port identified in the routing tag signal.
摘要:
A method and apparatus for testing missile software is disclosed. The appartus (10) comprises a missile data processor interface circuit (14) for interfacing the data processor (16) of the missile with the apparatus (10). The apparatus (10) further comprises a circuit (18) for real-time collection of information appearing on at least one of the memory buses of the missile data processor. The circuit (18) for real-time collection of data is in electrical communication with the data processor interface circuit (14) and a computer (24).
摘要:
A low-temperature process for forming a thin film of an aromatic polymer on the surface of a substrate by exposing the substrate to a monomer precursor containing arylene groups in the presence of radiation of a selected wavelength. Upon radiation inducement, the monomer units interact to form a polymer comprising directly bonded repeating arylene groups, and the polymer deposits as a layer on the substrate. Optionally, the polymer layer may be simultaneously or subsequently doped to provide a conductive polymer layer. Specifically disclosed polymers are polyparaphenylene and its antimony pentafluoride-doped derivative. The former is useful as a dielectric insulator or passivation material in semiconductor devices and circuits, while the latter is useful in batteries and solar cells, or electromagnetic shielding.
摘要:
An integral conductively-loaded encasing barrel for a slow-wave structure is formed by electrical discharge machining a plurality of circumferentially spaced longitudinally extending slots in the interior surface of the barrel. The machining discharge is established between a portion of the interior surface of the barrel and an electrode wire which is moved in a longitudinal direction within the barrel while the barrel is moved in a preselected manner in a plane transverse to the direction of movement of the wire. A subassembly comprising a slow-wave structure and a plurality of longitudinally disposed electrically insulating support rods in contact with and circumferentially spaced about the outer surface of the slow-wave structure is secured within the barrel with the support rods disposed within respective machined slots. The radially inwardly projecting portions of the barrel between the slots provide integral conductive loading for the slow-wave structure.
摘要:
A novel ethynylation process is disclosed which provides an expanded series of novel ethylnyl-terminated aromatic compounds having base sensitive substituents and which facilitates the economic preparation of prior art ethynyl-substituted aromatic compounds.
摘要:
Data is reformatted in a memory external to the processing elements of a processing array, relieving the processing array of this task and allowing it to perform its data processing functions more efficiently. Data is transferred to or from the multi-channel memory in a wordstream format, with individual data words mapped into the proper memory channels and the proper addresses within each channel in a matrix format. The invention is applicable to two-dimensional reformatting for data transfers between an input/output port and the memory, and to one-dimensional reformatting for data transfers between the processing array and either the memory or the input/output port. Logic circuitry within each channel selects the proper data words for that channel from a wordstream, and the associated address for each selected word, according to the respective positions of the data words in the wordstream. Data words are assigned to memory channels and to addresses within those channels based upon programmable format specifiers.