Abstract:
A Measuring system for comparing the relative magnitudes of a first and a second D.C. input signal by symmetrically integrating the first input signal between time period intervals proportional to its magnitude relative to the magnitude of the second input signal so that pulses are generated at a frequency which is a multiple of the integrating cycle. The variable frequency pulses are either counted directly or are converted to a frequency variable train of voltage pulses, each of the pulse cycles of the train of pulses having the corresponding periodicity of the variable input frequency and each voltage pulse having a substantially constant pulse width; the train of pulses are used to modulate a voltage source output signal which, when subsequently averaged, provides an output signal that is proportional to the product of the modulated output signal of the voltage source and the input frequency.