Sgs Microelettronica Spa

Sgsates Componenti Elettronici S.p.a.

Ferdinando Lari

Marco Siligoni

Vanni Saviotti

Vittorio Comino

A circuit, which may be monolithically integrated, for measuring longitudinal and transverse currents in a two-wire transmission line, includes first and second current mirror circuits of a first type, each having an input branch and first and second output branches. The measuring circuit also includes third, fourth and fifth current mirror circuits, each having an input branch and an output branch, and first and second currents mirror circuits of a second type, each having first and second input branches and first and second output branches. The input branches of the first and second current mirror circuits of the first type and the first input branches of the first and second current mirror circuits of the second type are used as input terminals for coupling to the line. The first and second current mirror circuits of the first type are both connected to the third current mirror circuit and are respectively connected to the first and second current mirror circuits of the second type, which are both connected to the fourth current mirror circuit. The second current mirror circuit of the second type is connected to the fifth current mirror circuit whose output the first output of the first current mirror circuit of the second type are connected together to form a first output terminal. The output of the third and the fourth current mirror circuits are connected together to form a second output terminal.

Monolithically integratable circuit for measuring longitudinal and

A monolithically integratable current adding circuit includes a current mirror circuit, the input port of which forms a first input terminal of an adding circuit and the output port of which is connected, via two series connected resistors, to a voltage reference. The point of connection between these series connected resistors forms a second input terminal of the adding circuit. The adding circuit also includes a voltage to current converter which has a first and second input terminal connected respectively to the output port of the current mirror circuit and to the voltage reference and which has an output terminal which forms the output terminal of the adding circuit.

Monolithically integratable current adding circuit

A telephone circuit which may be monolithically integrated, for generating control signals for displaying the telephone charges to a telephone user, is coupled to a AC voltage signal generator having a predetermined amplitude and frequency which are constant over time. The circuit includes a voltage generator for generating voltage signals which are spaced over time and have a trapezoidal pulse waveshape. A multiplier circuit calculates the product of the signals supplied by the two generators and supplies a signal which is sent to the speech circuit of the subscriber's line and is added to the speech (i.e.--conversation) signals. The circuit also includes a circuit for receiving an image signal of the overall signal adapted to the telephone line; a high-pass filter for eliminating the speech signal components from the image signal; a rectifier circuit for rectifying the filtered signal and a comparator for comparing the rectified signal with a reference signal. If the amplitude of the rectified signal is greater than the amplitude of the reference signal, the comparator generates a signal designed to stop the increase in the level of the trapezoidal pulse signals generated by the voltage generator thereby regulating the amplitude of the trapezoidal pulse signals.

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Ferdinando Lari