Automatic gain control circuit in a feed forward configuration

Details Automatic gain control circuit in a feed forward configuration Automatic gain control circuit in a feed forward configuration

1990-02-23

1992-11-17

Ng, Jin F.

Electrical audio signal processing systems and devices

Sound effects

Reverberators

381106, 333 14, 330281, H04F 2500, H03G 700

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051650177

ABSTRACT:
An input signal representing speech is preamplified, filtered, and fed foward in parallel to Automatic Gain Control (AGC) circuitry and to a gain controllable amplifier. The AGC detects the peak absolute value of the input signal, charing a capacitor in accordance with such detections. The capacitor is discharged at a faster rate (variable down to 1 msec) when a greater charge value is stored but at a slower rate (variable up to 4 seconds) when a lower charge value is stored. The gain controllable amplifier is controlled for gain inversely to the charge value stored on the capacitor. The AGC captures greater than 60 dB of allowable input signal range, compressing such input signal into a (controllable) limited amplitude dynamic range. The AGC provides that 1) environmental background sound is clearly heard in the absence of speech, 2) during speech the gain level is controlled so as not to allow background sounds to come in during normal speech pauses, simultaneous that 3) recovery to desired gain is quick folloiwng plossive sounds present in normal speech. In a preferred embodiment, the AGC circuitry and associated amplification circuitry is implemented as a monolithic semicustom integrated circuit.

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