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Instantaneous floating point amplifier
Assignee: Ion Geophysical Corp
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Filing: 1981-06-15
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Granted: 1982-11-02
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Expires: 2001-06-15
Abstract
Abstract An improved instantaneous floating point amplifier is provided having a plurality of cascaded amplifier stages, wherein the gain of a given stage of the amplifier is the square of the gain of the immediately succeeding stage of the amplifier. The number of amplifier stages which are required to implement the amplifier is minimized, and the control logic which is required to decide if a given stage is needed to amplify the input signal to a level within preselected limits is simplified. The amplifier has an automatic nulling feature which permits nulling of the amplifier without loss of data.
Inventors
- 👤 Miles A. Smither
Bibliographic Details
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Jurisdiction
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Last Synchronized
2026-10-30 17:47
CPC Classifications
H; H03; H03G; H03G3/00; H03G3/20; H03G3/30; H03G3/3005; H03G3/3026; G; G01; G01V; G01V1/00; G01V1/24; G01V1/245
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 2
Claim 1
Independent Claim
145 words
In an instantaneous floating point amplifier, having an input and an output, for amplifying each sample of a source signal to a level within preselected limits, said amplifier including a plurality of cascaded amplifier stages, each amplifier stage having a gain factor the improvement comprising: circuitry associated with each amplifier stage for enabling the stage if it is required to amplify a sample of the source signal and for bypassing the stage if it is not required to amplify a sample of the source signal, all amplifier stages, those enabled and those bypassed, being connected in cascade between the input and output of the amplifier for the amplification of each sample, the resulting overall gain of the amplifier which is applied to a sample being the product of the gain factors of all enabled stages and being independent of the gain applied to another sample.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
145 words
In an instantaneous floating point amplifier, having an input and an output, for amplifying each sample of a source signal to a level within preselected limits, said amplifier including a plurality of cascaded amplifier stages, each amplifier stage having a gain factor the improvement comprising: circuitry associated with each amplifier stage for enabling the stage if it is required to amplify a sample of the source signal and for bypassing the stage if it is not required to amplify a sample of the source signal, all amplifier stages, those enabled and those bypassed, being connected in cascade between the input and output of the amplifier for the amplification of each sample, the resulting overall gain of the amplifier which is applied to a sample being the product of the gain factors of all enabled stages and being independent of the gain applied to another sample.
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