Switched capacitor AM modulator/demodulator

Abstract

A first embodiment of an integrable switched capacitor modulator comprises a differential input operational amplifier A1 having a virtual ground potential impressed on its inverting input terminal; capacitors C1, C2 and C3; and switch means operative for alternately (1) charging C1 with an input voltage while connecting C2 and C3 in series with A1 and across it, respectively, for causing it to produce an inverted version of the input voltage, and (2) discharging C2 and C3 while connecting the sample of the input voltage on C1 across A1 for causing it to output a non-inverted sample of the input voltage. The modulated output signal from A1 is preferrably bandpass filtered to eliminate baseband spectral components fed through A1 when C2 is connected in series with the input terminal thereof. In a second embodiment which is insensitive to feedthrough and which requires only two capacitors C1 and C4, the switch means alternately (1) charges C1 with the input voltage while connecting a prior sample of the input voltage on C4 across A1 for causing it to output an inverted sample of the input voltage, and (2) changes C4 with the input signal while connecting the sample of the input voltage on C1 across A1 in the opposite polarity for causing it to output a non-inverted sample of the input voltage. This embodiment has particular advantage as a demodulator since the built-in sample-and-hold function provides low pass filtering of the output signal of A1.

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