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Addressing liquid crystal cells using unipolar strobe pulses
Assignee: Nortel Networks Ltd
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Filing: 1986-04-02
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Granted: 1987-11-10
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Expires: 2006-04-02
Abstract
Abstract A method of addressing a matrix addressed ferroelectric liquid crystal cell is described that uses parallel entry of balanced bipolar data pulses on one set of electrodes to co-operate with serial entry of unipolar strobe pulses on the other set of electrodes. Data entry is preceded with blanking (erasing) pulses applied to the strobe lines. The polarity of the strobing and blanking pulses is periodically reversed to maintain charge balance in the long term.
Inventors
- 👤 Peter J. Ayliffe
- 👤 Anthony B. Davey
Bibliographic Details
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2026-10-27 19:36
CPC Classifications
G; G09; G09G; G09G3/00; G09G3/20; G09G3/34; G09G3/36; G09G3/3611; G09G3/3622; G09G3/3629; G09G2310/00; G09G2310/06; G09G2310/061; G09G2310/062; G09G2310/063; G09G2310/065; G09G2320/00; G09G2320/02; G09G2320/0209
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 10
Claim 1
Independent Claim
176 words
In a digital electronic system in which sampling pulses having a frequency f o and a period P o are generated by a sampling source and propagated to a plurality of signal sampling points, a method for measuring the skew or phase difference between the sampling pulses as they arrive at the sample points, the method including the steps of: producing a reference signal having a period P r and a frequency f r ; beating the sampling pulses at each sampling point with said reference signal to produce a plurality of beat signals at each sampling point; determining, at least partially by measurement, the edge discrepancy between beat frequency signals in terms of the number of sampling pulses that occur therein; computing a quantity termed effective measurement interval which is equivalent to the difference of the period P o of the sampling pulses and the period P r of the reference signal; and computing the skew or phase difference by multiplying the number of sampling pulses representing the edge discrepancy by the effective measurement interval.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
176 words
In a digital electronic system in which sampling pulses having a frequency f o and a period P o are generated by a sampling source and propagated to a plurality of signal sampling points, a method for measuring the skew or phase difference between the sampling pulses as they arrive at the sample points, the method including the steps of: producing a reference signal having a period P r and a frequency f r ; beating the sampling pulses at each sampling point with said reference signal to produce a plurality of beat signals at each sampling point; determining, at least partially by measurement, the edge discrepancy between beat frequency signals in terms of the number of sampling pulses that occur therein; computing a quantity termed effective measurement interval which is equivalent to the difference of the period P o of the sampling pulses and the period P r of the reference signal; and computing the skew or phase difference by multiplying the number of sampling pulses representing the edge discrepancy by the effective measurement interval.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
22 words
The method of claim 1 wherein the digital electronic system is a logic analyzer and the measurement points are input channel terminals.
Claim 4
Independent Claim
192 words
A method for measuring channel-to-channel skew in a logic analyzer in which a plurality of input channels are sampled by sampling pulses having a frequency f o and a period P o , the logic analyzer implementing steps including: generating a reference signal having a frequency f r and a period P r which are different than the frequency f o and the period P o ; mixing the reference signal and the sampling pulses at the input channels to form beat signals having a frequency f b equal to the difference between the frequency f o of the sampling pulses and the frequency f r of the reference signal and having a period P b ; determining, at least partially by measurement, a quantity called apparent skew which is the number of the sampling pulses which represents the skew or phase difference between the best signals; computing a quantity called effective measurement interval which is equivalent to the difference between periods of the sampling pulses, P o , and the reference signal, P r ; and computing the sampling pulse skew by multiplying the apparent skew by the effective measurement interval.
Claim 5
Independent Claim
192 words
A method for measuring channel-to-channel skew in a logic analyzer in which a plurality of input channels are sampled by sampling pulses having a frequency f o and a period P o , the logic analyzer implementing steps including: generating a reference signal having a frequency f r and a period P r which are different than the frequency f o and the period P o ; mixing the reference signal and the sampling pulses at the input channels to form beat signals having a frequency f b equal to the difference between the frequency f o of the sampling pulses and the frequency f r of the reference signal and having a period P b ; determining, at least partially by measurement, a quantity called apparent skew which is the number of the sampling pulses which represents the skew or phase difference between the best signals; computing a quantity called effective measurement interval which is equivalent to the difference between periods of the sampling pulses, P o , and the reference signal, P r ; and computing the sampling pulse skew by multiplying the apparent skew by the effective measurement interval.
Claim 6
Independent Claim
176 words
A method for measuring skew or phase difference between digital signals at a plurality of measurement points, the digital signals of said measurement points each having a frequency f o and a period P o , the method including the steps of: producing a reference signal having a period P r and a frequency f r ; mixing the digital signals at said measurement points with said reference signal to produce a beat signal at each measurement point; determining, at least partially by measurement, a quantity called apparent skew which is the number of periods P o of the digital signals at said measurement points which represent the skew or phase difference between the beat signals at one measurement point and the beat signals at a different measurement point; computing a quantity called effective measurement interval which is equivalent to the difference between the periods P o and P r ; and computing the skew between the digital signals at said one and different measurement points by multiplying the effective measurement interval by the apparent skew.
Claim 7
Independent Claim
176 words
A method for measuring skew or phase difference between digital signals at a plurality of measurement points, the digital signals of said measurement points each having a frequency f o and a period P o , the method including the steps of: producing a reference signal having a period P r and a frequency f r ; mixing the digital signals at said measurement points with said reference signal to produce a beat signal at each measurement point; determining, at least partially by measurement, a quantity called apparent skew which is the number of periods P o of the digital signals at said measurement points which represent the skew or phase difference between the beat signals at one measurement point and the beat signals at a different measurement point; computing a quantity called effective measurement interval which is equivalent to the difference between the periods P o and P r ; and computing the skew between the digital signals at said one and different measurement points by multiplying the effective measurement interval by the apparent skew.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
45 words
The method of claim 4 wherein the step of determining includes the step of measuring the interval between a trigger event associated with the beat signal at said one measurement point and a trigger event associated with the beat signal at said different measurement point.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim
28 words
The method of claim 5 wherein the step of measuring includes the step of counting the digital signals occurring from one trigger event to the next trigger event.
Claim 10
Dependent Claim
22 words
The method of claim 4 wherein the digital signals are sampling pulses generated by a sampling source within a digital electronic system.
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