Abstract:
A low power dual sampler including two sampler switches with a step recovery diode (SRD) in each sampler switch. A local oscillator (LO) signal is provided through a power amplifier and transformer to baluns in the sampler switches without utilizing a power splitter, providing limited power loss to each balun. Each balun is configured to provide the LO signal to terminals of the SRD in a sampler switch without providing a termination to SRD impulses. Each sampler switch further includes series diodes connected across the terminals of each SRD switch with a junction of the series diodes connected to receive an RF signal, and the terminals of each SRD connected for providing an IF signal. To limit phase shift between SRD impulses, a temperature compensation circuit provides a DC offset voltage to each SRD. In one embodiment, each temperature compensation circuit includes an operational amplifier having a noninverting terminal coupled to a terminal of an SRD, an inverting terminal connected by a first resistor to ground, and an output connected by a second resistor to the inverting terminal and by a third resistor to the non-inverting terminal. To provide isolation between the sampler switches, a capacitor providing a high impedance to the LO signal and a low impedance to RF signals is connected at the interconnection of the sampler switches.
Abstract:
A frequency detection circuit is driven by an input signal limiter circuit, which is temperature compensated by a zener diode having a negative temperature coefficient, and includes a threshold detection circuit, which is temperature compensated by a zener diode having a positive temperature coefficient.
Abstract:
A frequency discriminator which is mechanized of active filters and operational amplifiers. The signal under test is simultaneously applied to a plus detector channel and a minus detector cannel these channels having active filters of band-pass configuration, one with a center frequency below the discriminator frequency and one above. The channels also have operational amplifier type detectors and the outputs of the two channels are combined, post detection filtering being accomplished by a summing amplifier by virtue of a RC feedback applied around this amplifier.
Abstract:
A demodulation device according to the present invention includes a spin device configured to output an oscillation signal; a phase control unit configured to assign a predetermined phase locking characteristic to the spin device, thereby causing the oscillation signal to be tuned to a modulation signal that is input to the spin device; and a detector configured to demodulate the oscillation signal that is output by the spin device and tuned to the modulation signal, thereby restoring information carried on the oscillation signal.
Abstract:
A circuit arrangement for matching a demodulator to operating conditions comprises a demodulator designed to demodulate an analog input signal to a demodulated signal. The demodulator is also designed to be driven by a control signal. The circuit arrangement further comprises a sensor which is designed to provide a sensor status signal, and a control unit to whose input side the sensor status signal is applied and which is designed to provide the control signal for the demodulator during operation.
Abstract:
A demodulation device according to the present invention includes a spin device configured to output an oscillation signal; a phase control unit configured to assign a predetermined phase locking characteristic to the spin device, thereby causing the oscillation signal to be tuned to a modulation signal that is input to the spin device; and a detector configured to demodulate the oscillation signal that is output by the spin device and tuned to the modulation signal, thereby restoring information carried on the oscillation signal.
Abstract:
An FM demodulation circuit comprises, an oscillation circuit (3) whose oscillation frequency is varied by a control signal, a phase comparator means (2) for comparing phases of signals between an FM signal to be demodulated and the output signal of the oscillation circuit (3) and generating a comparison signal corresponding to the phase difference, an additional voltage determining circuit (7) for determining an additional voltage based upon the comparison signal, and an adder (5) for adding the comparison signal and the additional voltage, and supplying the added result as the control voltage. The additional voltage may be a value which makes the comparison signal level at a center level of the operable range of the phase comparator (2).
Abstract:
A phaselock loop FM detector for detecting an incoming FM signal includes a voltage controlled oscillator (VCO) which produces an output signal and two control circuits, the first of which includes a varactor and causes the oscillator output signal to be at the center frequency of the incoming signal, and the second control circuit includes a second varactor and causes the oscillator output signal to lock on the modulation of the input signal.
Abstract:
A discriminator for a frequency modulated receiver, having slope detector and reference portions, with each portion developing a signal from the input signal. The slope detector portion signal varies in accordance with the frequency and amplitude of the input signal, and varies with temperature. The reference portion signal varies in accordance with the amplitude of the input signal and also varies in accordance with temperature. Signals from the two portions are combined at the output to produce a resultant signal which varies in amplitude according to the frequency of the input signal and is substantially unaffected by temperature variations and changes in supply voltage.
Abstract:
An oscillator unit is configured such that a frequency adjustment unit of a synthesizer used by a controller is smaller than a frequency variation tracking capability of a demodulator connected to an output side of a frequency converter. This structure successfully combines the temperature compensation control of an oscillator unit and the receiving process of a high-frequency receiving device. Accordingly, an oscillator unit with large temperature coefficient is applicable to high-frequency receiving devices.