摘要:
An asymmetric modulation scheme may be used to drive two output nodes coupled to a load. The asymmetric modulation scheme may be one-sided such that the switching rate of a first output node is lower than the switching rate of a second output node. The first output node may be switched only to change a direction of current between the first output node and the second output node, while the second output node is switched to convey the information of an input signal. The asymmetric modulation scheme may be used to drive a speaker to reduce noise at the first output node to improve accuracy of current monitoring through the speaker by a current monitor coupled at the first output node.
摘要:
An architecture to supply electrical operating power in fluid flow measurement applications, apparatus and associated systems, computer program products, and methods include a receiver tunable to various radio frequencies to capture radio frequency (RF) energy that may be used to supply regulated voltage to electronic fluid flow measurement data processing circuitry. In an example implementation, the power module searches for at least one RF signal that contains substantial energy. The received energy may be converted to a rectified waveform. The converted energy may be, for example, used to supply operating power to circuits in the fluid flow measurement circuitry, and/or it may be stored, such as in a capacitor or in a battery. Preferred embodiments may store signal strength information for one or more frequencies in at least one range of frequencies, and may tune the receiver to a frequency selected from the stored frequency information.
摘要:
A clock reference frequency is digitally derived from a base signal, then digitally modulated by ramping the clock reference frequency up and down about a desired frequency. The modulation occurs in periodic fashion at a prescribed modulation frequency. Such modulation spreads the electromagnetic energy of the system signals over a band that is a portion of the desired clock frequency. As a result, energy in harmonics of the respective system signals also are spread. When the energy spreading of any system signal or harmonic of such signal occurs over a bandwidth greater than the 120 kHz bandwidth of conventional communication receivers, adverse EMI emissions are reduced.
摘要:
A system and method for modulating a carrier signal wherein occurrence of the peaks in the modulated carrier signal conveys clocking information and each transition of a modulated carrier signal includes two midrange characteristics, the ratio of which represents data carried by that transition. Either analog or digital circuit techniques can be utilized to produce the modulated carrier signal, and either analog or digital techniques can be used to demodulate the modulated carrier signal in various embodiments of the invention. In an analog version of the modulator, a sinusoidal carrier signal is squared, alternate cycles of the squared waveform are phase shifted and clocked into analog multipliers, the gains of which are varied in response to an input data signal, the total gains being equal to a constant, and the multiplier outputs are summed to produce the modulated carrier signal. The ratios of the slopes of each transition represent the data. In an analog demodulator, the modulated signal is differentiated to obtain the slopes of the two portions of each transition and the peak values of the derivative signals are sampled, stored, and ratioed by means of an analog divider. 2.sup.N different levels of the modulated carrier signal can be used to represent the state of N digital bits.
摘要:
A dual slope analog-to-binary converter employs a flip-flop in a unique way to optimize a pulse train output relative to a quantized time domain. Another flip-flop revises the output waveform to compensate for pulse shape inaccuracies. The circuit is also used as an analog multiplier or divider, particularly in a lung function analyzer.
摘要:
A monostable or free-running transistor multivibrator is provided with semiconductor means for varying the period of conduction of one or both of the transistors forming the multivibrator in dependence upon a control voltage by varying the rate of discharge of the capacitor of the resistor-capacitor network whose time constant governs the period of conduction of the transistor. In one form of the invention the semiconductor means comprises an NPN transistor the collector-emitter path of which is in series with the capacitor of the associated resistor capacitor network, the control voltage being applied, directly or indirectly, to the base of the NPN transistor.