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Floating point digitizer

US4584560A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateJun 11, 1984
Grant dateApr 22, 1986
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Expiry dateJun 11, 2004

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH03M1/186
  • WIPO fieldBasic communication processes
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

In a floating point digitizer, an analog signal is delivered to two signal paths. One includes a delay line. In the first path, the analog signal is measured in terms of order of magnitude to provide a signal indicative of an exponent. This same value is utilized to set the gain of a variable gain amplifier to which the delayed signal is applied and from which a mantissa is resolved.

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