Gating circuit for analog values
AssigneeLITEF GmbH
InventorErnst Rau
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AssigneeLITEF GmbH
InventorErnst Rau
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A gating circuit for largely glitch-free gating of analog signal values obtained in a periodic sequence, capacitively buffer-stored, digitized by means of an A/D converter and subsequently erased before a next signal value is obtained in the capacitive buffer store. A first operational transconductance amplifier (OTA) capable of being activated by a gating pulse has a non-inverting input connected to the reference-earth point of a capacitive store and an output connected to the charging terminal of the capacitive store. Its inverting input is connected through an impedance converter and a resistor, which limits the discharge current, to the charging terminal of the capacitive store. A second OTA serves as a signal driver whose gain is predetermined by the ratio of the value of a resistor connected in parallel with the capacitive store to that of a series resistor that determines the potential at the inverting input of the second OTA.
In a gating circuit for analog signal values obtained in a periodic sequence, capacitively buffer-stored, digitized by an A/D converter and subsequently erased, before a next analog signal value is obtained, by discharge of said capacitive store within a time interval that is predetermined by a gating pulse, the improvement comprising, in combination:
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