Three-state digital mixer-driver circuit

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 4468784
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06418494

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A mixer-driver circuit in a code correlator of a spread-spectrum communications system simultaneously multiplies an input RF signal with two phase-offset digitally encoded bit streams. A double-balanced mixer is driven with the difference of the digital signals; the mixer is either inverting, noninverting, or off. Matched ECL bistables which reclock the phase-offset bit streams, and a load current steering circuit coupled to the bistables together provide a balanced, differential drive current to the mixer which switches state faster than the bistables alone. In another embodiment, a single bistable receiving an encoded bit stream differentially drives the mixer in a biphase circuit.

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ROCKWELL INTERNATIONAL CORPORATIONEL SEGUNDO CA

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Jagnow, Paul G Iowa City, IA 5 130
Vail, David K Cedar Rapids, IA 7 113

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