Lucent Technologies Inc.

Susan Jeanne Walker

Dima David Shulman

Vittorio Comino

A tuning circuit for generating a digital code to be used to calibrate a capacitor array of the type used in active RC filters is comprised of a single-slope A/D converter with fixed reference voltages as inputs and an output value which is dependent on the RC product of a resistor and capacitor within the converter. A decoder converts the RC product as measured by the A/D converter into a digital code which, when applied to the appropriate capacitor array, sets the array capacitance to compensate for the difference between the measured RC product and the nominal design value.

Method and apparatus for tuning a continuous time filter

A circuit for compensating for the input offset voltage of a logarithmic amplifier includes a digital comparator, a logic circuit, and a digital-to-analog converter (DAC) in a feedback loop. The comparator is connected to the output of the log amplifier and digitally indicates the polarity of the input offset voltage when the amplifier input is set to zero. The logic circuit uses the digital output of the comparator to form an adjustable digital compensation signal. This digital compensation signal is applied to the DAC to generate an analog compensation signal that is injected into the input of the logarithmic amplifier to cancel the input offset voltage. The process is repeated until the proper or best compensation signal is produced.

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Susan Jeanne Walker