Background
Dilemma of analog circuit
Analog circuit technology can be said to be very difficult to expect relative to the speed of development and the height achieved by digital circuit technology.
Even though the rapid development of consumer electronics and intelligent technologies provides great opportunity for analog circuit technology, analog signal processing technology still fails to get rid of the embarrassment of wandering at low speed.
Whether qualitative or quantitative, analog circuit technology is in urgent need of breakthrough.
Difficulties of analog circuits
There is a class of signals, and the processing requirements of the market are massive and urgent, which is the class of sensor signals.
Sensor signals often have multiple difficulties of complex and changeable signal environment, weak effective signals and high signal processing requirements.
Take electret microphone signal as an example:
● electret microphones are active devices and require a certain bias operating voltage.
● electret microphones typically output audio signals with an amplitude of only a few millivolts.
● the fluctuation range of signal caused by power supply voltage variation, device parameter discreteness, and environmental temperature is often larger than the effective signal itself.
Under the current common rechargeable battery power supply mode, if no special treatment is carried out, the change of the battery power supply range can make the position of the signal center point of the electret microphone signal fluctuate up and down by hundreds of millivolts.
The processing flows of separation and extraction, amplification processing, signal stabilization and the like of the sensor signals bring great difficulty and pressure to corresponding signal processing circuits.
The problems of difficult design, difficult implementation, poor universality, difficult system integration and the like are all puzzling the development of analog circuit technology.
Requirement of analog circuit
With the explosive increase of the number and types of sensors, the analog signal processing technology, especially the effective processing technology of weak signals in complex signal environments, is required to be very urgent and difficult to deal with.
There is a need in the art for a signal processing circuit with good versatility, applicability, and usability, and further for tools and methods for designing such circuits.
In the industry for many years, on the premise that local improvement and improvement effects on the traditional technology are not outstanding, the patent tries to discuss a general circuit scheme with the following characteristics from the ideal requirement:
1. the method has a uniform interface form: single-ended input and single-ended output;
2. the circuits can be used independently, can be stacked in a modularized mode, or can be applied in an embedded mode;
3. the method mainly comprises the following steps of selecting and amplifying specific signal components;
4. the circuit structure has universality;
5. the design of circuit function needs to realize localization, simplification and visualization.
The patent aims at solving the problems of difficult signal separation and extraction, difficult signal amplification condition and environment setting, difficult realization and upgrade adjustment of a feedback circuit design, difficult signal stabilization and the like in a complex signal environment in the traditional signal processing technology,
the following solution ideas are given:
1. in view of the common situation that the environmental signals are complex but the effective signals are relatively simple in the sensor signals, the traditional operation of stripping and rejecting invalid signals is changed into the operation of distinguishing the effective signals, and the signal preprocessing work is simplified.
2. In view of the problems that the traditional amplifying circuit is difficult to establish and maintain and is more difficult to stably operate in a wide working range. The method selects mature circuit technology which can amplify differential mode signals and keep common mode signals passing through, establishes parallel 'amplifying channels' and 'bypass channels', and carries out differentiation processing on signal components, some amplified and some shunted in different signal forms in the same signal.
The main design idea of the present patent can be further given by combining the above two points:
● processing all signal components into common mode signal;
● further processing the signal components to be amplified into differential mode signal form;
● amplifying the differential mode signal by the amplifying circuit, keeping the amplifying characteristic of the common mode signal, realizing the selective amplification of the signal component needing amplifying;
● allow for efficient amplification of particular signal components while allowing for the problem of inherited delivery of unamplified signal components.
The technical scheme and the implementation method for realizing the design idea are provided by the scheme and the implementation method for the direct-selection amplification general circuit for the weak signals in the complex signal environment.
Constant amplitude signal and amplitude difference signal:
in the two-path common ground voltage signal, the part of the two-path signal with equal voltages to ground is generally called a common mode signal, and the part of the two-path signal with different voltages to ground is generally called a differential mode signal.
In order to avoid ambiguity caused by the fact that the direct use of common professional terms may differ from the technical meaning of some specific fields, specific situations and even similar terms in specific applications, in the following related descriptions of the present patent application, a constant amplitude signal is used to express a portion of two signals with the same amplitude as a ground signal, i.e., the common mode signal, and an amplitude difference signal is used to express a portion of two signals with different amplitudes from the ground signal, i.e., a differential mode signal.
The principle scheme is as follows:
1. processing all signal components into a constant amplitude signal;
2. designing a signal processing scheme to further process the signal components needing to be amplified into an amplitude difference signal;
3. the amplifying circuit amplifies the amplitude difference signal and bypasses the amplitude signal.
The technical scheme is as follows:
FIG. 1 is a functional diagram of a general circuit scheme for direct-selection amplification of weak signals in a complex signal environment,
it is composed of three main functional circuit parts:
the constant amplitude signal generating circuit, the amplitude difference signal generating circuit and the signal selective amplifying processing circuit.
Wherein:
● constant amplitude signal generating circuit
The functional characteristics are as follows:
the single-ended voltage-to-ground input signal is processed into two paths of constant amplitude signals with the same signal content and the same signal amplitude, and the two paths of signals are single-ended voltage-to-ground signals.
The circuit is characterized in that:
the parallel signal input unit can be a parallel signal input unit with two input ends connected to a single-ended input signal simultaneously, the functional characteristics of the parallel signal input unit are required to have good input and output characteristics and signal transmission characteristics, and some signal input units can be omitted conditionally;
or a signal input unit is connected to the single-ended input signal, and the other signal copying unit is connected to the output end of the signal input unit;
or can be a pair of signal input modules to realize the output of two paths of same signals;
no matter how various circuit units are connected, the constant amplitude signal generating circuit needs to output the same content and the same signal amplitude, and comprises signal components needing to be amplified and two single-ended voltage-to-ground signals needing to maintain the transmitted signal components.
Inputting connection characteristics:
the input ends are connected with a single-ended voltage-to-ground input signal.
Output connection characteristics:
the two outputs are single-end ground voltage signals and are connected to an amplitude difference signal generating circuit.
● amplitude difference signal generating circuit
The functional characteristics are as follows:
on the basis of the two paths of constant amplitude signals with the same content and the same signal amplitude output by the constant amplitude signal generating circuit, an independent signal processing unit is arranged for each path of signal, and the two signal processing units are total.
And the two signal processing units are used for carrying out asymmetric processing on part of specific signal components, so that the corresponding signal components have signal amplitude difference in the two paths of signals to form corresponding amplitude difference signals.
The circuit is characterized in that:
there are two signal processing units that are independent of each other.
Two paths of signals output by the constant amplitude signal generating circuit are provided with a signal processing unit for each path.
A through-connection can also be regarded as a special form of signal processing unit.
The output of the two signal processing units is a single-ended voltage signal to ground.
Inputting connection characteristics:
and each unit is connected with the output of one path of constant amplitude signal generating circuit.
Output connection characteristics:
two independent signal processing units generate two paths of outputs in the form of single-end voltage-to-ground signals, and the two paths of outputs are connected to the signal selective amplification processing circuit.
● Signal selective amplification processing circuit
The functional characteristics are as follows:
after receiving the two paths of voltage-to-ground signals output by the amplitude difference signal generating circuit, effectively amplifying the part with the signal amplitude difference in the two paths of signals, namely the amplitude difference signal;
meanwhile, the part with equal signal amplitude in the two paths of signals, namely the constant amplitude signal, is kept to pass;
the two are superposed and then output in a single-end voltage-to-ground mode.
The circuit is characterized in that:
the core circuit is a signal selective amplification processing circuit unit with double-end input and single-end output;
two single-end voltage-to-ground signals from the amplitude difference signal generating circuit are respectively connected to two input ends of the signal selective amplification processing circuit unit after passing through respective signal input units which can be omitted under conditions;
the amplitude difference signal part in the two paths of signals is effectively amplified by the signal selective amplification processing circuit unit, the constant-amplitude signal part can keep passing through, and the constant-amplitude signal part are superposed and then output in a single-ended voltage-to-ground signal mode.
Inputting connection characteristics:
the two inputs are connected to the output of the two amplitude difference signal generating circuits.
Output connection characteristics:
the single-ended voltage-to-ground signal is also the output signal of the circuit.
The signal processing flow can be comprehensively described as follows:
as shown in figure 1 of the drawings, in which,
● input signal V in the form of a single-ended voltage-to-ground signalINAfter being processed by a constant-amplitude signal generating circuit consisting of two parallel signal input units or a single signal input processing module, two paths of signals with the same signal content and signal amplitude, namely constant-amplitude signals, are obtained;
● each path of signal will be processed by a signal processing unit, two independent signal processing units form an amplitude difference signal generating circuit, two signal processing units select part of signal components to be amplified to carry out asymmetric processing operation, so that the signal amplitudes of corresponding signal components in the two paths of signals are different to form an amplitude difference signal related to the signal components to be amplified;
● when the two signals reach the signal selective amplification processing circuit, the amplitude difference signal in the two signals, namely the part of the signal amplitude difference, is effectively amplified; the same amplitude signal, namely the part with the same signal amplitude, keeps passing unchanged, the two signals are superposed and then output in the form of a single-ended voltage signal to ground, and the output signal is VOUT。
The implementation method comprises the following steps:
the above technical solutions are applicable to various technical means and methods, such as discrete components, operational amplifiers, circuit units, functional devices, and even system devices, and the like, and are not limited to these technologies.
The design of each part of the circuit can be realized by using a large number of well-known basic circuits, and can be redesigned, such as
● constant amplitude signal generating circuit can be realized by two parallel signal input circuit units, such as signal follower circuit, but not limited to;
the ● amplitude difference signal generating circuit can be implemented by basic circuits that can affect the signal amplitude of some circuit signal components, such as a filter circuit, but not limited to;
the signal amplitude attenuation at one side is a good amplitude difference signal generation means;
the asymmetrical operation of signal amplitude on two sides is a basic technical means for forming amplitude difference signals;
● functional requirements of the signal selective amplifier circuit, many double-ended input amplifier circuits can be satisfied, such as an amplifier circuit with a reference voltage input terminal, but not limited thereto.
The recommendation circuit:
in order to more intuitively explain the characteristics and implementation method of the weak signal direct-selection amplification general circuit scheme in a complex signal environment, a plurality of practical functional circuit design examples are given below.
According to the principle of easy reading and use and abundant resources, a common operational amplifier (hereinafter referred to as operational amplifier) technology is adopted to realize a specific circuit, but the relevant technical features of the patent are not limited to the technology.
All the operational amplifiers are powered by a single power supply, and the processed signals are in the range of application of the power supply and the device characteristics.
Fig. 2 is a proposed development general-purpose basic reference circuit, which provides a proposed circuit for the constant amplitude signal generation circuit and the signal selective amplification processing circuit in the circuit scheme shown in fig. 1, and the two parts of the circuit have certain universality for the design of various functional circuits.
Fig. 2 reserves the positions of two signal processing units, and application circuits with various signal amplification processing functions can be realized through further design of the reserved signal processing units a and B.
Two well-known circuit units were used in developing a universal base reference circuit:
● Single-op-amp signal follower circuit, including signal follower circuits A1, A2 and A3.
The single operational amplifier signal following circuit is formed by short-circuiting an operational amplifier negative phase input end and an output end, and has good input impedance, signal transmission performance and output load driving capacity.
● operational amplifier AZ and resistor R0, RZConstituting a circuit unit.
Double-ended input single-ended output.
■ one input VA is connected to resistor R0, R0, negative phase input of operational amplifier AZ, and resistor RZIs connected to the output of the operational amplifier AZ.
■ is connected to the non-inverting input of the operational amplifier AZ at its other input VB.
The output end of the ■ operational amplifier AZ is the circuit output end.
According to a common approximate analysis method of an operational amplifier circuit, when the operational amplifier circuit is balanced, the two input ends have equal potential, and the input current of the two input ends is zero, so that the currents on the electric groups R0 and RZ are equal, namely:
V+=V-;
(V--VA)/R0=(VOUT-V-)/Rz
the signal relation of the amplifying circuit can be obtained as follows:
VOUT=V-+(Rz/R0)*(V--VA)
changing VB to V-Substituting the relationship of (a) into the expression, can obtain:
VOUT=VB-(Rz/R0)*(VA-VB)
if VA is expressed as:
VA=VB+(VA-VB)
comparing the original input signal VA with the output signal VOUTIn between, the common mode signal part, i.e. the on-amplitude signal part VB, is not changed, but the differential mode signal part, i.e. the amplitude-difference signal part (VA-VB), the signal amplitude is amplified in antiphase by a factor of (Rz/R0).
Operational amplifier AZ and resistor R0, RZThe circuit amplification unit is formed to meet the amplification characteristic requirement of the signal selective amplification circuit.
In the development universal base reference circuit shown in figure 2,
● constant amplitude signal generating circuit is composed of signal follower circuits A1 and A2, and the input end is connected to single-end voltage-to-ground signal VIN. The constant-amplitude signal generating circuit provides two paths of same signals and good signal drive for subsequent circuits, namely the reserved signal processing units A and B, and lays a crucial foundation for further symmetry and asymmetry processing of weak signals.
The ● amplitude difference signal generating circuit is composed of two independent reserved signal processing units A and B, and each reserved signal processing unit is responsible for processing an output signal of one path of constant amplitude signal generating circuit.
The two reserved signal processing units respectively select the signal amplitude of part of the signal components in the passing signal components to process, and the combination of the processing conditions possibly suffered by various signal components in the two paths of signals is as follows:
■ case one: some signal component reserved signal processing units A and B are not processed, the amplitudes of two paths of signals of related signal components are not changed and are kept equal continuously, namely the two paths of signals become equal-amplitude signal components.
■ case two: some signal component reserved signal processing units A and B perform symmetrical same processing on the signal components, and the amplitudes of two paths of signals of related signal components are changed identically and still can be equal or basically equal, namely, the two paths of signals become quasi-constant amplitude signals mainly comprising constant amplitude signal components.
■ case three: some signal component reservation signal processing units A and B carry out asymmetric processing on the signals, including the processing of only one-way reservation signal processing unit, or two-way reservation signal processing units A and B carry out different signal processing operations, and the two-way signal amplitude of related signal components can be changed differently, so that the signal amplitude of the related signal components between two-way signals can be different, namely, amplitude difference signal components can be generated, and the signal components can become amplified signal components.
The ● signal selective amplifier circuit comprises an operational amplifier AZ and a resistor R0, RZThe signal selective amplification processing unit is added with a signal follower circuit arranged before a resistor R0A 3.
After receiving the two signals transmitted by the amplitude difference signal generating circuit, the transient voltage signals of the two signals pass through the part with the same signal amplitude, and the part with the signal amplitude difference is amplified in opposite phase (Rz/R0) times, and then the two signals are superposed and output in the form of a single-end voltage-to-ground voltage signal.
The general basic reference circuit for development shown in fig. 2 can realize the design of the corresponding signal processing function circuit by only continuously completing the design of two reserved signal processing units.
Example of application circuit design one: band-pass amplifying circuit
The general basic reference circuit for development shown in fig. 2 is further designed deeply, and two RC low-pass filter circuits are used to replace two reserved signal processing units, so that the band-pass amplifying circuit shown in fig. 3 can be obtained.
In the band-pass amplifying circuit shown in figure 3,
the ● constant amplitude signal generating circuit formed by the signal follower circuits a1 and a2 has been described above.
● operational amplifier AZ, and resistor R0, RZThe signal selective amplifying circuit composed of the signal selective amplifying processing unit and the signal follower circuit a3 has been described above.
● replace the two reserved signal processing units in the circuit of fig. 2 with two RC low pass filter circuits.
The resistor R1 and the capacitor C1 form a low-pass filter circuit R1C1, which replaces the reserved signal processing unit A in FIG. 2;
the resistor R2 and the capacitor C2 form a low-pass filter circuit R2C2 instead of the reserved signal processing unit B in fig. 2.
Analysing the original input signal VINAll signal components in the signal form the case of an amplitude difference signal.
The cutoff frequency of the low-pass filter circuit R1C1 is denoted as F1, and the cutoff frequency of the low-pass filter circuit R2C2 is denoted as F2.
● when the signal frequency of the signal component is lower than F1 and lower than F2, the low pass filter circuits R1C1 and R2C2 are both in the conducting state, the corresponding signal components in the two paths of signals reaching the signal selective amplification processing circuit are both the amplitude of the conducting signal, so as to form quasi-constant amplitude signals, and the existing amplitude difference signals have small amplitude.
● when the signal frequency of the signal component is higher than F1 and also higher than F2, the low pass filter circuits R1C1 and R2C2 are both in cut-off state, and the corresponding signal components in the two paths of signals reaching the signal selective amplification processing circuit are both the amplitude of the cut-off signal, so as to form quasi-constant amplitude signals, and the existing amplitude difference signals have small amplitude.
● when the signal frequency of the signal component is between F1 and F2, one of the low pass filter circuits R1C1 and R2C2 is in the on state, and the other is in the off state, the difference of the signal amplitude of the corresponding signal component in the two signals reaching the signal selective amplifying processing circuit is equal to the difference of the amplitude of the off signal and the on signal.
That is, the effective signal amplitude of the signal component with the signal frequency between F1 and F2 is mostly processed into an amplitude difference signal, and all or most of the effective signal amplitudes of the other signal components are processed into a constant amplitude signal.
● the amplitude difference signal part will be amplified prominently after passing through the amplifying circuit composed of operational amplifier AZ and resistors R0, RZ.
The signal processing result of the circuit of fig. 3 is to effectively amplify the signal with the signal frequency between the cut-off frequencies of the two low-pass filter circuits, and the other signals are kept passing or inhibited to be amplified.
Fig. 3 is a bandpass amplifying circuit.
The upper and lower cut-off frequencies of the band-pass are the cut-off frequencies of the two low-pass filter circuits, the higher frequency is the upper cut-off frequency, and the lower frequency is the lower limit mechanism frequency;
the signal amplification is proportional to (Rz/R0).
Example two of the application circuit design: AC (high-pass) amplifying circuit
Fig. 4 shows an ac (high-pass) amplifier circuit.
Specifically, the following are mentioned: the circuit adopts the overall scheme provided by the patent, and a plurality of parts which can be deleted are greatly deleted.
The electret microphone signal amplifier is mainly designed aiming at specific signals such as electret microphone signals, a signal source is an active signal, the frequency characteristic of the signal is guaranteed not to change along with the change of a load, the influence of the signal amplitude is guaranteed, and the frequency characteristic is adjusted by the amplification factor.
The circuit design is primarily directed to the cost-sensitive and circuit complexity-sensitive consumer market.
As shown in fig. 4
● Single-ended ground-to-ground voltage input signal VINIs connected to a resistor R0 as a signal VA, is connected to the negative phase input end of the operational amplifier AZ through a resistor R0 and then is connected to the negative phase input end of the operational amplifier AZ through a resistor RZConnected to the output of the operational amplifier RZ.
● Single-ended ground-to-ground voltage input signal VINAfter passing through the signal follower circuit A1, the signal follower circuit A1 is connected to the non-inverting input terminal of the operational amplifier AZ through the resistor R1 and then grounded through the C1.
● when the resistors R1 and C1 form an integration circuit, the voltage at the center of the signal, denoted as V, can be obtainedCenter of a shipThat is to say that the input signal VB of the amplifier circuit is the signal center point voltage VCenter of a ship。
According to the amplification relation of the foregoing amplification circuit:
changing VB to VCenter of a ship。
Input signal VINEqual to the sum of the DC component of the signal and the AC signal, i.e.
VA=VCenter of a ship+VExchange of electricity。
Substitution into
VOUT=VB-(Rz/R0)*(VA-VB)
It is possible to obtain:
VOUT=Vcenter of a ship-(Rz/R0)*VExchange of electricity
That is, in the ac (high-pass) amplifier circuit shown in fig. 4, if the resistor R1 and the capacitor C1 form an integrating circuit, the signal amplitude of the ac signal component can be amplified in reverse phase (Rz/R0) while the signal center point is kept substantially constant.
When the values of the resistor R1 and the capacitor C1 form a low-pass circuit R1C1 with the cut-off frequency of F1:
● the frequency of the signal is lower than that of the signal component F1, so quasi-constant amplitude signal is formed between the conducting signal of the low-pass circuit R1C1 and the original signal.
● the signal has a higher frequency than the signal component of F1, the cut-off signal of the low-pass circuit R1C1 forms a significant amplitude difference signal with the original signal.
● at this time, the signal component having a signal frequency higher than F1 will be effectively amplified, and the amplification effect of the other signal components will be suppressed.
The circuit shown in fig. 4 is a high-pass amplifier circuit with a cutoff frequency of F1 when a resistor R1 and a capacitor C1 form a low-pass filter circuit with a cutoff frequency of F1.
The circuit shown in fig. 4 may be an ac signal amplifier circuit or a high-pass amplifier circuit, and is determined by the value ranges of the resistor R1 and the capacitor C1.
The circuit of fig. 4 can be regarded as low-cost electret microphone signal amplifier, if there is the signal stability requirement, can directly connect the signal center point tracking migration locking circuit that this patent fig. 5 provided and realize.
Example three of the application circuit design: signal center point tracking migration locking circuit
FIG. 5 shows a signal center point tracking transition locking circuit.
The circuit does not change the amplitude of the signal, but only shifts and locks the signal center point at a certain reference voltage position.
As shown in fig. 5
● Single-ended ground-to-ground voltage input signal VINIs connected to a resistor R0 as a signal VA, is connected to the negative phase input end of the operational amplifier AZ through a resistor R0 and then is connected to the negative phase input end of the operational amplifier AZ through a resistor RZConnected to the output of the operational amplifier RZ. Resistance R0 and resistance R hereZThe same resistance value is taken.
● Single-ended ground-to-ground voltage input signal VINAfter passing through a signal follower circuit A1, the signal follower circuit is connected to an integrating circuit R1C1 to obtain VINVoltage V at center point of signalCenter of a ship. Connected to a resistor R4 via a signal follower circuit A3 to be connected to a reference voltage VREFAnd carrying out partial pressure operation.
● the power voltage is divided by two resistors R2 and R3 to obtain the reference voltage VREF,VREFOr can be directly arranged from the outside, VREFAfter passing through the signal follower circuit A2, the signal follower circuit A is connected to a resistor R5;
● center point voltage VCenter of a shipAnd a reference voltage VREFThe voltage is divided by two equivalent resistors R4 and R5 to obtain a signal (V)Center of a ship+VREF) The/2 is connected to the positive phase input end of the operational amplifier AZ of the amplifying circuit;
one path of signal VA is represented as: VA is VCenter of a ship+VExchange of electricity。
The other signal VB is represented as: VB ═ VCenter of a ship+VREF)/2。
Substituting into the signal relation formula of the amplifying circuit:
VOUT=VB-(Rz/R0)*(VA-VB)
it is possible to obtain:
VOUT=VREF-Vexchange of electricity
Comparing input signals
VIN=VA=VCenter of a ship+VExchange of electricity。
It can be found that the shift of the center point of the AC signal is locked at VREFa.C. signal component VExchange of electricityThe amplitude is unchanged but inverted.
The signal center point tracking migration locking circuit shown in fig. 5 can be directly connected with the circuit shown in fig. 3 or fig. 4, so that the position of the amplified signal center point is locked to VREFWhen the resistance values of the resistor R2 and the resistor R3 are equal,
VREF=(1/2)*VCC。
that is, the signal center point tracking transition locking circuit shown in fig. 5 can lock the position of the center point of the input signal to one-half of the power supply voltage, which is the signal center point setting position required by many conventional amplifying circuits.
Other application circuit design techniques
With the development-use general-purpose basic reference circuit of fig. 2, it is possible to design a variety of functional circuits by flexible design and operational combination of two reserved signal processing units.
For example:
● various functional circuits are constructed by additional signal circuits or some signal generating circuits such as modulation signals, comparison signals, latch signals, slice signals, etc.
● the particular signal generator circuit may be implemented using a combination of various signal sources.
● and other circuit processing methods capable of forming a predictable result between two signals.
Disclosure of Invention
Fig. 1 is a functional block diagram of a general circuit scheme and an implementation method for direct selection and amplification of weak signals in a complex signal environment.
The circuit consists of three functional circuits: the constant amplitude signal generating circuit, the amplitude difference signal generating circuit and the signal selective amplification processing circuit.
Wherein:
● constant amplitude signal generating circuit:
the device consists of two parallel signal input units which can be omitted conditionally, and can also be combined into a signal input module;
the functional characteristics are as follows: processing the single-ended input signal into two paths of signals with the same signal content and the same signal amplitude; the content of the signal is the same or closely related to the input signal.
Input connection: single ended input signal VINThe input ends of two signal input units or the input ends of the signal input modules are connected simultaneously:
and (3) output connection: two paths of signals with the same content, namely constant amplitude signals, are generated and are connected with an amplitude difference signal generating circuit.
● amplitude difference signal generating circuit:
the direct connection is also in a special signal processing unit form;
the functional characteristics are as follows: respectively carrying out asymmetric operation on specific signal components of the two paths of input constant-amplitude signals through the two signal processing units, and generating amplitude difference signals corresponding to the signal components in the two paths of signals output by the two signal processing units;
input connection: two paths of signals from the constant amplitude signal generating circuit, wherein each path of signal is respectively connected to the input end of a signal processing unit;
and (3) output connection: the two signal processing units output two paths of signals and are connected to the signal selective amplification processing circuit.
● Signal selective amplification processing circuit:
selecting or designing double-end input and single-end output, wherein the amplification functional characteristic meets the requirement of effectively amplifying an amplitude difference signal, a circuit unit for passing the amplitude difference signal is kept, and a signal input unit is additionally arranged at an input end if necessary;
the functional characteristics are as follows: effectively amplifying a part with signal amplitude difference between two input signals, namely an amplitude difference signal part, and outputting a part with the same amplitude and a part with the same amplitude in a single-ended signal form after the part with the same amplitude and the part are superposed;
input connection: two paths of signals from the amplitude difference signal generating circuit, and a signal input unit is arranged at an input end if necessary;
and (3) outputting: and outputting in the form of a single-ended voltage-to-ground signal.
The signal processing flow comprises the following steps:
● after a single-end voltage-to-ground input signal VIN is processed by a constant amplitude signal generating circuit, two paths of signals with the same content and amplitude are formed, each path is processed by a signal processing unit independently, and the two signal processing units A and B are total.
● the two signal processing units A, B form an amplitude difference signal generating circuit, and the two signal processing units A, B make the amplitudes of the corresponding signals in the outputs of the two signal processing units A, B generate difference by performing asymmetric processing on the signal amplitudes of partial signal components.
● signal selective amplification processing circuit amplifies the instantaneous voltage amplitude difference part of the two received signals effectively; the parts with the same instantaneous voltage amplitude of the two paths of signals are not amplified and pass through; the two are superposed and output in the form of single-end voltage to ground.
The circuit implementation method comprises the following steps:
● constant amplitude signal generating circuit
Circuits that are capable of generating two identical signals and that contain the signal components required for amplification and transmission are suitable.
For example, the method is realized by adopting two parallel signal input units, wherein the input ends of the two parallel signal input units are connected with input signals and are both single-ended input and single-ended output; or the signal input unit is adopted and then the signal copying unit is adopted to realize the operation; the method can also be realized in a signal distribution mode; the method is not limited thereto.
● amplitude difference signal generating circuit
The two-path signal processing unit circuit can be realized by selecting or redesigning the relevant circuit unit, and the through connection can also be regarded as a special signal processing unit.
How to select and process the signals and how to match between the two signal processing units requires design.
The technical method of outputting two paths of differential mode signals comprising amplified signal components is applicable.
The signal component, which is processed into an amplitude difference signal, will be amplified.
● Signal selective amplification processing circuit
This can be achieved by selecting or designing a corresponding circuit unit that satisfies the requirements of the amplification characteristics.
The input terminal is provided with a signal input unit as necessary to avoid mutual influence between adjacent circuit units, device parameters and signal characteristics.
In order to better illustrate the scheme of the general circuit for direct selection and amplification of weak signals in a complex signal environment and part of the method and the skill in the circuit implementation in the implementation method in fig. 1, the present specification further describes how to build a general basic circuit for development and how to design some common functional circuits, and provides several practical circuits.
The proposed development uses a generic basic circuit:
for convenience of illustration and understanding, a number of circuit implementation examples in this specification have been illustrated using operational amplifiers and circuit elements thereof, but this should not unduly limit the main technical features of this patent.
Meanwhile, it is needless to say that all signals processed by the circuits are within the power supply range of the operational amplifier and the performance support range of the device.
All operational amplifiers are supplied by a single power supply and are sometimes referred to as operational amplifiers for short.
Fig. 2 shows a schematic circuit of a universal basic reference circuit for development:
in the circuit shown in fig. 2, two well-known circuit units are used, and two design positions of the signal processing unit are reserved:
● single-operational-amplifier signal follower circuit
In fig. 2, the operational amplifiers a1, a2 and A3 respectively form signal follower circuits a1, a2 and A3.
Each signal follower circuit is formed by directly connecting the negative phase input end and the output end of the operational amplifier.
The positive phase input end of the operational amplifier is the input end of the signal following circuit, and the output end of the operational amplifier is the output end of the signal following circuit.
The single operational amplifier signal following circuit has high input impedance, good signal transmission performance and strong output load driving capability.
● Signal Selective amplification Unit
In FIG. 2, the operational amplifier AZ and the resistor R0, the resistor RZConstitute a signal selective amplification processing unit.
The signal selective amplification processing unit is in a double-end input single-end output interface form.
Wherein, an input signal at one end is connected to a resistor R0 as VA, is connected to the negative phase input end of the operational amplifier AZ through a resistor R0 and then is connected to the negative phase input end of the operational amplifier AZ through a resistor RZIs connected to the output of the operational amplifier AZ.
And the other end of the input signal VB is connected to the non-inverting input end of the operational amplifier AZ.
The output end of the operational amplifier AZ is the output end of the signal selective amplification unit, and the output signal is a single-ended pairGround voltage signal VOUT。
The signal relation of the signal selective amplification unit is as follows:
VOUT=VB-(Rz/R0)*(VA-VB)
● in the circuit shown in fig. 2, two signal processing units are also reserved for the design positions.
The signal processing flow of the circuit shown in fig. 2 is as follows:
● Single-ended input Signal VINWhile being connected to the inputs of the signal follower circuits A1, A2, the outputs of the follower circuits A1, A2 will simultaneously obtain the input signal VINThe same signal;
● reservation signal processing circuit A, B input end signal and input signal VINThe same;
the output of the reserved signal processing circuit a reaches the VA input signal position of the amplifying circuit unit after passing through the signal follower circuit a 3.
The output of the reserved signal processing circuit B reaches the VB input signal position of the amplifying circuit unit.
The signal follower circuit a3 is arranged to make the output end of the reserved signal processing unit a directly connected to the input end of the operational amplifier, and the output load environment is symmetrical to the reserved signal processing unit B.
● according to the signal amplification relation of the signal selective amplification processing circuit:
VOUT=VB-(Rz/R0)*(VA-VB)
shows that:
■, if the reserved signal processing units a, B do not generate a new amplitude difference signal component, (VA-VB) is 0;
VOUT=VB
■ if the signal processing circuits A and B are reserved and new amplitude difference signal components are generated, then (VA-VB) < > 0
VOUT=VB-(Rz/R0)*(VA-VB)
From the above analysis, it can be seen that a functional circuit for amplifying a corresponding signal can be designed as long as an amplitude difference signal of some signal components is generated by the matching design of the reserved signal processing units a and B.
The combination of the two reserved signal processing units a, B processing different signal components is:
●, reserving signal components which are not processed by the signal processing units at two sides, keeping the two paths of signals the same, representing the corresponding signal components as constant amplitude signals, and not amplifying the corresponding signal components;
● only one side signal processing unit changes signal amplitude for some signal components to obtain corresponding amplitude difference signal;
●, the signal processing units on both sides carry out the symmetry operation of changing the signal amplitude for some signal components, and corresponding quasi-constant amplitude signals are obtained;
●, the signal processing units on both sides carry out asymmetric operation of changing signal amplitude on certain signal components, and corresponding amplitude difference signals are obtained;
the amplitude difference signal part is effectively amplified, and the constant amplitude signal part is not amplified and is kept to pass through.
On the basis of the development general basic reference circuit shown in fig. 2, a functional circuit for amplifying a specific signal component can be obtained by further designing the two reserved signal processing units a and B.
On the basis, a set of implementation example circuits which are further designed and completed are given:
the device comprises a band-pass amplifying circuit, a high-pass (alternating current) amplifying circuit and a signal center point tracking and shifting locking circuit.
Circuit one of the implementation example: band-pass amplifying circuit
Fig. 3 shows a schematic diagram of a circuit band-pass amplifying circuit according to an embodiment, and comparing fig. 2 shows that:
an RC low-pass filter circuit R1C1 formed by a resistor R1 and a capacitor C1 replaces the reserved signal processing unit A;
an RC low-pass filter circuit R2C2 formed by a resistor R2 and a capacitor C2 replaces the reserved signal processing unit B;
the cutoff frequency of the low-pass filter R1C1 is denoted as F1, and the cutoff frequency of the low-pass filter circuit R2C2 is denoted as F2.
In the bandpass amplifying circuit shown in figure 3,
● Single-ended ground-to-ground voltage input signal VINAfter passing through signal follower circuits A1 and A2 composed of operational amplifiers A1 and A2, the signals respectively reach the input ends of low-pass filter circuits R1C1 and R2C2, and the signals are all equal to VINThe same is true.
● the output signal of the low-pass filter circuit R1C1 reaches VA of the signal selective amplification processing circuit after passing through the follower circuit A3; the output signal of the low-pass filter circuit R2C2 directly reaches VB of the signal selective amplification processing circuit, i.e. the non-inverting input terminal of the power amplifier AZ.
The arrangement of the follower circuit a3 can have two roles:
■ isolating the cross influence of the component parameters between the low-pass filter circuit R1C1 and the signal selective amplification processing unit;
■ the output of the low pass filter circuit R1C1 is connected to the input of the operational amplifier, which is loaded the same as the output of the low pass filter circuit R2C 2.
● VA is input signal VINThe result of the low-pass filter circuit R1C1 is the input signal V at VBINThe result after being processed by a low-pass filter circuit R2C 2;
● the processing results of the two low-pass filters R1C1 and R2C2 for the input signals of different frequency ranges are:
■ when the signal frequency is lower than F1 and the signal frequency is lower than F2, the outputs of the two low-pass filter circuits are both conducting signals, the difference amplitude is small, and the signals are quasi-constant amplitude signals.
■ when the signal frequency is higher than F1 and the signal frequency is higher than F2, the output of the two low-pass filter circuits are both cut-off signals, the phase difference amplitude is small, and the signals are quasi-constant amplitude signals.
■ when the frequency of the signal is between F1 and F2, one of the two low-pass filter circuits is in the cut-off state, the other is in the conducting state, the amplitude difference between the two signals is large, and the amplitude difference signal almost similar to the input signal can be obtained.
● is processed by the signal selective amplifying circuit, according to the signal amplifying relation:
VOUT=VB-(Rz/R0)*(VA-VB)
it can be known that the signal processing characteristics of the bandpass amplifying circuit of fig. 3 are:
the signal amplitude of the signal with the signal frequency between F1 and F2 is effectively amplified by the sum of (R)Z/R0).
Circuit two of the implementation example: high-pass (AC) amplifying circuit
Fig. 4 shows a schematic diagram of a high-pass (ac) amplifier circuit of an embodiment.
The circuit of fig. 4 can be said to be a typical example of the pursuit of circuit simplification, and can be directly used for simple processing of the electret microphone signal.
The circuit comprises a capacitor C1, two operational amplifiers A1, AZ, and three resistors R1, R0, RZComposition is carried out;
the core circuit is an operational amplifier AZ, a resistor R0 and a resistor RZThe performance characteristics of the formed signal selective amplification processing unit are as described above.
Single end to ground voltage input signal VINOne signal VA directly serving as the signal selective amplification processing unit is connected to the resistor R0.
Simultaneous input signal VINThe signal follower circuit a1 formed by the operational amplifier a1 is connected to a signal VB of the selective amplification processing unit, that is, the non-inverting input terminal of the operational amplifier AZ, through the low-pass filter unit R1C1 (or the integrating circuit R1C1, depending on the values of the resistor R1 and the capacitor C1).
Assume that the cutoff frequency of the low-pass filter unit R1C1 composed of the resistor R1 and the capacitor C1 is F1.
● when the frequency of the input signal is lower than F1, the amplitude of the amplitude difference signal received by the selective amplification processing unit VA, VB is the amplitude difference between the original signal and the conducting signal of the filter circuit, and is small and can be regarded as a quasi-constant amplitude signal.
● when the frequency of the input signal is higher than F1, the amplitude of the amplitude difference signal received at the selective amplifying circuit unit VA, VB is the amplitude difference between the original signal and the cut-off signal of the filter circuit, and can be regarded as the amplitude difference signal.
According to the signal amplification relation of the signal selective amplification processing unit obtained by the analysis, the following steps are carried out:
VOUT=VB-(Rz/R0)*(VA-VB)
the signal processing characteristics of the high-pass amplification circuit of fig. 4 can be known as follows:
the signal with the frequency higher than F1 is effectively amplified by the sum of the amplification factor and (R)Z/R0).
The circuit now behaves as a high-pass amplification circuit.
When the resistor R1 and the capacitor C1 form an integral circuit by selecting values, the output can be approximately regarded as the voltage of the signal center point, namely
VB=VCenter of a ship。
If the signal VA is expressed as: VA is VCenter of a ship+VExchange of electricity. Substituting the correlation equation can obtain:
VOUT=Vcenter of a ship-(Rz/R0)*VExchange of electricity
Under the condition that the central point of the signal is unchanged, the alternating current signal component is effectively amplified, and the amplification ratio is equal to (R)Z/R0).
At this time, the circuit shown in fig. 4 behaves as an ac signal amplifying circuit.
Circuit three of the implementation example: signal center point tracking migration locking circuit
FIG. 5 shows a signal center point tracking transition locking circuit.
The core circuit is an operational amplifier AZ, a resistor R0 and a resistor RZThe signal selective amplification processing unit is analyzed and introduced.
Single end to ground voltage input signal VINOne signal VA directly serving as the signal selective amplification processing unit is connected to the resistor R0.
The signal VA is expressed as: VA is VCenter of a ship+VExchange of electricity。
At this time, VCenter of a shipIs varied with the variation of the center point of the input signal, there may be many influencing factors that cause VCenter of a shipIs fluctuating.
Input signal VINThe signal follower circuit A1 is connected to the integrator circuit R1C1 to obtain the signal center point voltage V of the input signalCenter of a ship. Then the voltage is connected to a resistor R4, namely a VC position after passing through a signal following circuit A3, and the signal at the VC position is VCenter of a ship。
The circuit of FIG. 5 uses resistor R2 and resistor R3 to obtain a reference voltage V for power supply voltage divisionREF,VREFOr can be input from outside the circuit, VREFThe signal is transmitted to a resistor R5, namely VD, through a following circuit A2, and the signal at VD is VREF。
The resistor R4 and the resistor R5 have the same resistance value for V at VCCenter of a shipAnd V at VDREFVoltage division operation is carried out, and a voltage division signal (V) is obtained at the connection part of the resistors R4 and R5Center of a ship+VREF)/2。
Dividing the voltage signals (V) of the resistors R4 and R5Center of a ship+VREF) And/2 is connected to a signal VB of the selective amplification processing unit, namely the non-inverting input end of the operational amplifier AZ.
In this case, VB is (V)Center of a ship+VREF)/2
And VA is equal to VCenter of a ship+VExchange of electricitySignal relation expression substituted into signal selective amplification processing unit together
VOUT=VB-(Rz/R0)*(VA-VB)
Obtaining: vOUT=(VCenter of a ship+VREF)/2-(Rz/R0)*((VCenter of a ship+VExchange of electricity)-(VCenter of a ship+VREF)/2)
When the resistance R isZWhen the resistance R0 has the same resistance value, (Rz/R0) is 1, the result is obtained:
VOUT=VREF-Vexchange of electricity
This means that the signal center point of the alternating signal component in the output signal has been shifted from V, which floats with the original input signalCenter of a shipMigrate to a fixed VREF. The alternating signal component is inverted.
The circuit shown in fig. 5 has a further feature:
except that the resistor R1 needs to be independently valued to obtain better integration circuit characteristics by matching with the capacitor C1, if all other resistors take the same value, the circuit can lock the signal center point to the position of one half of the power supply voltage.
Fig. 5 is a circuit for tracking and shifting a signal center point, which can be directly connected to the amplifying circuits shown in fig. 3 and fig. 4, respectively, to stabilize the signal center point.
Thereby, a large number of processing operations for signal stabilization, operating point stabilization and signal zero point stabilization can be omitted.