Title :
Design and investigation of a very wide dynamic microwave electronic counter entirely intergrated using traditional MOSFET technology (~1E4 Hz to 1E11 Hz)
Author :
El-Hennawy, Adel ; El-Hameed, Handy Abd ; Ramadan, Ashraf ; El-Ftah, Mohammed A.
Author_Institution :
Fac. of Eng., Ain Shams Univ., Cairo, Egypt
Abstract :
The paper presents a new MOSFET IC frequency to frequency converter (FFC) which can measure frequency, period, frequency ratio, time interval, event counting, rise and fall time, pulse width, duty cycle and statistical information (repeating mode, software, storage memory). The proposed FFC is based on a new technique of operation comprising transformation from high (upper microwave frequencies) to appropriate easily measurable frequencies (~1 Hz to 1 E6 Hz) with excellent resolution (~0.1 ppm). It uses a very low level current to frequency converter (CFC) operating in its exponential mode. The FFC is entirely integrated using the standard 2 μm MOSFET technology
Keywords :
MMIC frequency convertors; MOS integrated circuits; counting circuits; field effect MMIC; frequency measurement; microwave measurement; 1 Hz to 1 MHz; 1E4 to 1E11 Hz; 2 micron; MOSFET IC; MOSFET technology; current to frequency converter; exponential mode; frequency converter; microwave electronic counter; wide dynamic range; Counting circuits; Frequency conversion; Frequency measurement; Integrated circuit measurements; Microwave oscillators; Optical wavelength conversion; Paper technology; Pulse measurements; Software measurement; Time measurement;
Conference_Titel :
Radio Science Conference, 1998. NRSC '98. Proceedings of the Fifteenth National
Conference_Location :
Cairo
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-5121-5
DOI :
10.1109/NRSC.1998.711507
