Charge-transfer binary search generating circuit

Details Charge-transfer binary search generating circuit Charge-transfer binary search generating circuit

1977-08-16

1979-01-30

Zazworksy, John

Electrical transmission or interconnection systems

Nonlinear reactor systems

Parametrons

307221D, 307246, 320 1, 328186, H03K 402

Patent

active

041374649

ABSTRACT:
A bucket brigade circuit is described for generating a sequence of packets of charge carriers of the form Q.sub.R /2, Q.sub.R /4, Q.sub.R /8....Q.sub.R /2.sup.N where N is an integer. The charge packets thus generated can be employed in combinations in either digital-to-analog or analog-to-digital converters. The charge generation circuit requires two equal capacitors which are used for charge redistribution. To obtain accurate quantities of charge in the generated charge packets the capacitors employed should be large, however the use of large capacitors results in low operating speed because of the large charge transfer time constants involved. The described circuit provides a scheme to reduce charge transfer time constants and therefore obtain greater speed while still permitting the use of large capacitors for high accuracy. The circuit includes a small coupling capacitor connected in series with one of the charge redistribution capacitors to produce a total capacitance which is equal to or smaller than the coupling capacitance. The sequence of charge carriers produced by the circuit can be injected into either a bucket brigade circuit or a charge-coupled-device circuit for use, for example, in digital-to-analog and analog-to-digital converters.

REFERENCES:
patent: 3750143 (1973-07-01), Osborne
patent: 3906488 (1975-09-01), Suarez-Gartner

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