Miscellaneous active electrical nonlinear devices – circuits – and – Specific signal discriminating without subsequent control – By pulse width or spacing
Patent
1996-06-07
1997-11-11
Tran, Toan
Miscellaneous active electrical nonlinear devices, circuits, and
Specific signal discriminating without subsequent control
By pulse width or spacing
327 2, 327 31, H03K 908
Patent
active
056868464
ABSTRACT:
An oscilloscope has a trigger circuit which is operable in any one of three different modes. The trigger circuit has a number of edge detect circuits which generate pulses in response to a rising edge, falling edge, or both rising and falling edges of one or more signals. The trigger circuit has a multiplexer which routes one of three signal sources depending upon the selected mode. With a first mode, the multiplexer routes signals from a pattern detect circuit and the trigger circuit operates in a conventional manner to trigger based on the duration of the signal. In the second mode, the multiplexer routes signals from one edge detect circuit and the trigger circuit measures the frequency or rate of the signal. In the third mode, the multiplexer routes signals from a flip-flop which generates a pulse based upon the outputs from two different edge detect circuits and can be configured to measure setup or hold violations between two signals. The trigger circuit according to the invention can therefore trigger on events more complex than just the duration of a signal and provides this triggering ability without the need for any instrument or circuitry external to the oscilloscope.
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Holcomb Matthew S.
Tustin Warren S.
Hewlett--Packard Company
Tran Toan
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