Yokogawa Electric Corporation

Yoshinobu Sugihara

Shigeru Takezawa

Takuya Saitou

Satoru Togo

A differential amplifier is constituted of first emitter-follower transistors, second emitter-follower transistors, and amplification transistors whose bases are alternately connected to the emitters of the second emitter-follower transistors and whose collectors are connected to the emitters of the first emitter-follower transistors, as well as emitter resistors and constant current sources, whereby it is possible to reduce distortions of output signals in response to large-amplitude input signals, thus ensuring high-speed operation. It is possible to further incorporate base-grounded transistors and diodes, by which substantially the same collector-emitter voltage is applied to the emitter-follower transistors and amplification transistors, thus achieving the same power consumption and the same temperature variations with respect to these transistors. This reduces the nonlinear amplification error due to temperature differences of transistors, thus achieving flat gain characteristics in broad ranges of frequencies.

Differential amplifier

The objective is to realize a numeric value search apparatus and numeric value search method capable of rapidly searching for a numeric value of a prescribed rank. The present invention is characterized in that it comprises the following: a storage unit which stores multiple pieces of digitized numeric value data; a resolution specifying means which specifies a frequency distribution resolution; a frequency distribution creation unit which determines the frequency distribution of numeric value data in the storage unit using the resolution specified by this resolution specifying means; and a computation unit which determines the numeric value range or numeric value with the prescribed rank from the frequency distribution determined by this frequency distribution creation unit; wherein the resolution specifying means increases the resolution specified to the frequency distribution creation unit in steps, based on the computation results of the computation unit.

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Musashino, Japan

Yoshinobu Sugihara