Abstract:
A PERIOD OF TIME MEASURED BY GENERATING A PLURALITY OF NOISE SIGNALS BY MEANS OF A PLURALITY OF INDEPENDENT WHITE GAUSSIAN NOISE GENERATORS, BY BAND-LIMITING EACH NOISE SIGNALS WITH SUITABLE FILTERS, BY SUMMING THE NOISE SIGNALS EMERGENT FROM SAID FILTERS, AND FINALLY BY AMPLITUDE-LIMITING THE SUN SIGNALS, THEREBY PRODUCING A SIGNAL
WHOSE AMPLITUDE AND NUMBER OF ZERO-CROSSINGS ARE BOTH INDEPENDENT OF THE NUMBER OF NOISE GENERATORS EMPLOYED. THE ELAPSED TIME IS MEASURED BY COUNTING THE ZERO CROSSINGS.
Abstract:
For a spacecraft command system, a tone decoder which distinguishes between binary zeros and ones. The circuit combines the operations of a differential amplifier, a threshold detector, a Schmitt trigger and a fast-reset integrator in a single circuit which uses fewer components than would be required if these operations were cascaded, as in the prior art.
Abstract:
A passive generator that provides for the precise and repeatable generation of voltage transients. A portion of the supply voltage, as determined by a potentiometer, is applied to a first and second capacitor-resistor network. By closing associated first and second switches, the generation of either positive or negative voltage transients, having a variable amplitude and a definite time constant is accomplished.
Abstract:
A monostable multivibrator circuit, or one-shot, which consumes virtually no power while in its standby state and having noncritical cutoff. Under quiescent conditions all circuit transistors are nonconductive and a circuit capacitor is fully charged. An input signal causes a first transistor to become conductive and thereby causes the capacitor to discharge exponentially from a negative potential toward a positive potential. The discharge time associated with the capacitor determines the on-time of the instant one-shot. Second and third transistors are connected into the circuit in such a manner that the circuit regeneratively turns on and degeneratively turns off. Further, the circuit is provided with means for preventing false triggering by voltage spikes from the power supply or from the load.