AN ANALOG-TO-DIGITAL LOGARITHMIC CONVERTER BASED ON AN oscillating circuit,

Abstract

A transistorized logarithmic analog-to-digital converter of d-c voltage into pulses is described. The input voltage (3 mv - 3 v) is first converted into voltage pulses by a sampling gate circuit. These voltage pulses excite an LC circuit whose oscillations are tuned to resonate with the gate control pulses. The output of the LC circuit is amplified, limited, and fed to an amplitude discriminator, whose output is a packet of pulses. The number of pulses in the packet is proportional to the logarithm of the input d-c voltage.

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 09, 1967
Accession Number
AD0677224

Entities

People

  • I. D. Rapoport
  • Yu. V. Mineev

Organizations

  • National Air and Space Intelligence Center

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Amplitude
  • Circuits
  • Converters
  • Discriminators
  • Lc Circuits
  • Oscillation
  • Sampling

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Electronics Engineering