Abstract:
A noise free transceiver circuit includes a communication line, a power source line, a ground line, an output transistor having output terminals connected between the communication line and the ground line for outputting a communication signal to the communication line, a first circuit for applying a trapezoidal signal to the input terminal of the output transistor to turn on in synchronism with a transmission signal and a second circuit for turning off the output transistor when the level of the transmission signal is high. The output transistor is turned off when the communication signal is outputted. Therefore, noises of the power line are shut out of the output transistor.
Abstract:
A process, temperature and supply insensitive trapezoidal pulse generator includes a stable reference current source for generating a stable reference current. The trapezoidal pulse generator includes a current amplification circuit adapted to receive the stable reference current and operable responsive to the stable reference current to amplify the stable reference current to a mirrored current. The trapezoidal pulse generator includes an output circuit coupled to the current amplification circuit and adapted to receive the mirrored current and operable in a second frequency to generate a trapezoidal pulse.
Abstract:
A control slew rate output driver has a plurality of component drivers that are switched on in turn to provide an edge on the output. A control circuit provides a series of respective control signals component drivers, which are correspondingly switched on in turn. The control circuit takes a signal, preferably a data signal, and supplies it in parallel to a plurality of delay buffers, which delay the data signal by different amounts to produce the control signals for the component drivers. The delay buffers are voltage controlled and the control voltage for each is provided by a respective tap of a voltage divider. The current passes through the voltage divider can be changed to change the control voltages and, hence, the overall rise or fall time provided by the output driver.
Abstract:
A control slew rate output driver has a plurality of component drivers that are switched on in turn to provide an edge on the output. A control circuit provides a series of respective control signals component drivers, which are correspondingly switched on in turn. The control circuit takes a signal, preferably a data signal, and supplies it, in parallel to a plurality of delay buffers, which delay the data signal by different amounts to produce the control signals for the component drivers. The delay buffers are voltage controlled and the control voltage for each is provided by a respective tap of a voltage divider. The current passes through the voltage divider can be changed to change the control voltages and, hence, the overall rise or fall time provided by the output driver.
Abstract:
The present invention discloses an output circuit, by which it is possible to reduce power consumption while maintaining maximum voltage value to be outputted at high level. In this output circuit, a charge-and-discharge circuit uses a terminal voltage Vc of a capacitor as a trapezoidal wave voltage, and a drive circuit drives an output transistor based on the terminal voltage Vc, and a voltage Vo equal to the terminal voltage Vc is outputted to the load. A voltage detection circuit detects an emitter voltage (VcnullVF) of the transistor and generates an electric current proportional to the terminal voltage Vc. This electric current is turned to a base current of the output transistor via a variable current circuit. Therefore, a base current proportional to the output voltage Vo is supplied to the output transistor.
Abstract:
A novel waveform generating for generating a waveform having symmetrical rise and fall times. The waveform generator of the present invention includes a first current source, a second current source, a MOS capacitor and a clamping circuit. The first current source and the second current source are coupled to a node such that current generated by the first current source flows into the capacitor and current generated by the second current source flows out of the capacitor. The clamping circuit is also coupled to the node such that the output voltage generated by the waveform generator is limited to a minimum and a maximum value. Therefore, by controlling the current flowing into the node, and the capacitance at the node, the rate at which the output voltage changes over time is controlled. As such, a waveform having very precise rise and fall times is generated.
Abstract:
A transmitting circuit is provided which includes a control circuit for transmitting and receiving a communication signal. Transmit information is modulated into a trapezoidal wave signal using a waveform shaping circuit. A communication signal is first generated on the basis of the trapezoidal wave signal and transmitted to a first transmission line. From this communication signal, a second communication signal is generated having an inverted polarity waveform shape relative to the first communication signal. This inverted polarity triangular wave signal is, in turn, output from a second transmission line BUS-. In addition, a receiving circuit is provided for receiving like signals from other communication devices which share the first and second transmission lines BUS+ and BUS-. The receiving circuit includes a comparator circuit for demodulating received signals on the transmission lines to generate square wave equivalent signals which a processing unit can logically interpret. Because communication signals are transmitted (received) and derived in the described manner, they are not subject to adverse effects, such as can result from fluctuation of GND potential levels and power supply differences amongst remote communication systems. Furthermore, because an inverted triangular waveform is generated in addition to, and on the basis of, a regular, modulated triangular wave signal, phase shift problems are avoided and radiation of harmonics noise is favorably reduced even at intermediate, or higher, transmission rates.
Abstract:
A transmitter circuit for transmitting a digital data signal over a bus in a digital data processing system includes a MOSFET bus driver transistor having a gate to drain capacitance C.sub.GD which substantially dominates other capacitances at the gate terminal. The bus driver transistor is driven by a buffer circuit having pull-up and pull-down transistors current through which is controlled by current sources. The gate terminal of the driver transistor is connected to, and controlled by, the node between the pull-up and pull-down transistors. The drain terminal of the driver transistor is connected to, and controls, a bus line. To assert a signal on the bus line, the pull-up transistor is turned on to drive current into the node at a rate governed by the current source, which increases the voltage level of the node. When the voltage level of the node reaches the driver transistor's threshold level, the driver transistor begins to turn on, allowing the voltage level of the bus line to drop. Contemporaneously, current flows into the node from the bus line through the driver transistor's high gate to drain capacitance, thereby limiting the voltage level of the node, and thus the current flow through the driver transistor. Thus, current flows through the driver transistor from the bus line in a manner controlled, in part, by the voltage level on the bus line. In negating a signal on the bus line, the operations are similar, with current flowing out of the node through the pull-down transistor and the driver transistor's gate to drain capacitance.
Abstract:
This invention accomplishes low power consumption by a drive circuit for a Bloch line memory, which includes a power source, a bias magnetic field coil, a plurality of switching means and means for returning the power supplied to the bias magnetic field to the power source. The present invention can set the waveform of a pulse current (coil current) to a desired waveform by particularly using a transformer, and can improve the transfer characteristics of the Both line pair.
Abstract:
A capacitor is charged and discharged through switch selectable resistors from regulated DC voltage supplies and clamping diodes to provide the bias signal to control the rise and fall times of the RF output pulse of a PIN diode attenuator. An isolation buffer isolates charging and discharging transients from the bias signal. An adjustable AC gain and adjustable DC offset inverting amplifier provides the isolation buffered signal to a high impedance, very low output AC impedance source for driving the bias input of the PIN diode attenuator. The DC offset is provided by an adjustable regulated voltage source coupled to the inverting amplifier.