Miscellaneous active electrical nonlinear devices – circuits – and – Specific signal discriminating without subsequent control – By amplitude
Patent
1994-09-13
1997-04-22
Callahan, Timothy P.
Miscellaneous active electrical nonlinear devices, circuits, and
Specific signal discriminating without subsequent control
By amplitude
327 65, 327 76, H03K 5153
Patent
active
056232209
ABSTRACT:
A zero-crossing circuit and method, in which the sign of inputs to a comparator is reversed after each zero crossing of the input signal. This means that delay introduced by the comparator does not affect the duty cycle of the output signal, so precision synchronization remains possible.
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Betti Giorgio
Gadducci Paolo
Moloney David
Anderson Matthew
Callahan Timothy P.
Formby Betty
Groover Robert
SGS-Thomson Microelectonics, S.r.l.
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