Miscellaneous active electrical nonlinear devices – circuits – and – Signal converting – shaping – or generating – Frequency or repetition rate conversion or control
Patent
1993-06-30
1996-02-27
Sikes, William L.
Miscellaneous active electrical nonlinear devices, circuits, and
Signal converting, shaping, or generating
Frequency or repetition rate conversion or control
364607, 364851, H03B 1900, H03L 700, G06G 728
Patent
active
054952026
ABSTRACT:
A digital waveform synthesizer, using a direct digital synthesizer and a digital frequency divider. The direct digital synthesizer provides a digitally synthesized input frequency signal. An upconverter and frequency divider circuit upconverts and divides the synthesized input frequency signal to provide an divided synthesized frequency signal. An output upconverter circuit is coupled to the upconverter and divider circuit for providing an upconverted output frequency signal. A reference frequency generator is coupled to the direct digital synthesizer, to the upconverter and divider circuit, and to the output upconverter, for providing clock and frequency reference signals thereto. The waveform generator is coupled to the direct digital synthesizer for commanding a desired waveform. The frequency divider is used to improve the inherently poor spurious signal performance of the direct digital synthesizer. The digital waveform synthesizer provides fast switching, flexible and precisely defined frequency output signals. The digital waveform synthesizer may be used with any signal generator that requires high spectral purity and frequency precision, but requires relatively narrow signal bandwidth.
REFERENCES:
patent: 4458329 (1984-07-01), Remy
patent: 4659999 (1987-04-01), Motoyama
patent: 4675724 (1987-06-01), Wagner
patent: 5128623 (1992-07-01), Gilmore
patent: 5184093 (1993-02-01), Itoh
Alkov Leonard A.
Denson-Low W. K.
Hughes Aircraft Company
Nguyen Tiep H.
Sikes William L.
LandOfFree
High spectral purity digital waveform synthesizer does not yet have a rating. At this time, there are no reviews or comments for this patent.
If you have personal experience with High spectral purity digital waveform synthesizer, we encourage you to share that experience with our LandOfFree.com community. Your opinion is very important and High spectral purity digital waveform synthesizer will most certainly appreciate the feedback.
Profile ID: LFUS-PAI-O-1681768