JPH11153625A - Waveform memory device - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To make A/D converter for equivalent sampling unnecessary and make noise generation due to the characteristic of multi-phase A/D converter impossible during equivalent sampling, by performing equivalent sampling using only a single phase of the multi-phase A/D converter of real time sampling. SOLUTION: Four phase clock is generated from a sample clock of four phase clock generation circuit 15, and a digitizer system at first phase of an A/D converter 7 and a memory 11 for sample, second phase of a converter 8 and a memory 12 for sample, third phase of an A/D converter 9 and a memory 13, and fourth phase of a converter 10 and a memory 14 are functioned by turn to sample input signal. As only one system of multi-phase converter is used in equivalent sampling to digitize, the characteristic difference of multiple A/D converter becomes no relation. Also, as no digitizing circuit for equivalent sample is used, the system is realized with small rise of cost and consumption power. When this device is used in an oscilloscope, the waveform of the memory signal is indicated with an indication circuit 23 by way of a control circuit 22.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an improvement in an equivalent sampling circuit in a waveform storage device such as an oscilloscope.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art As a conventional technique, an oscilloscope will be described as an example with reference to block diagrams shown in FIGS.
In a waveform storage device that performs ultra-high speed sampling,
In many cases, high-speed sampling is performed by changing the phase difference of the sampling clock using a plurality of converters.
Still, in the time range beyond real-time sampling, equalized samples are used.

Conventionally, as shown in FIG. 2, a circuit for the equivalent sample A itself has been provided separately from the sequence for performing the real-time sample B. 1 is an input unit, 2 is an attenuator, 3 is an amplifier, 4 is a sample holder for equivalent samples, 5 is an AD converter for equivalent samples, 6 is a memory for equivalent samples, 7 to 10 are AD converters for real time samples, 11 To 14 are real-time sampling memories, 15 is a four-phase clock generation circuit,
16 is a clock generating circuit, 17 is a frequency dividing circuit, 18 is a sample control circuit, and 19 is a trigger gate generating circuit. 22, a display control circuit; and 23, a display circuit including a display such as an LCD.

[0004] Up to the maximum real-time sample, waveforms are stored in polyphase by an AD converter and memory for real-time samples from 7 to 14;
Were repeatedly sampled using the equivalent sample system described above to obtain equivalent samples.

On the other hand, in the conventional example shown in FIG. 3, using an AD converter and memory for real-time sampling, at the time of equivalent sampling,
By switching the switch circuits 20 and 21, the equivalent sample was performed using the sample holder 4 in the same manner as the real-time sample.

Reference numeral 22 denotes a display control circuit; and 23, a display circuit including a display such as an LCD.

[0007]

In the conventional technique, for example, in the example of FIG.
System hardware is required, cost increases,
It is disadvantageous for low power consumption and miniaturization.

In the example shown in FIG. 3, there is an advantage that the hardware is exactly the same between the real-time sample and the equivalent sample. Is a noise component of the stored waveform, and becomes an equivalent sample having a poor S / N.

A first object of the present invention is to realize an equivalent sample in a waveform storage device using a polyphase AD converter without significantly increasing cost and power consumption.

A second object is to reduce the amount of noise at the time of equivalent sampling due to the characteristic difference of the polyphase AD converter.

[0011]

According to the present invention, in order to achieve the above object, an equivalent sample is obtained by using only one phase of a real-time sample polyphase AD converter.

This eliminates the need for an AD converter system for equivalent samples, and does not generate noise due to differences in characteristics of the polyphase AD converters during equivalent sampling.

[0013]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to FIG. 1 using an oscilloscope as an example. 1 is an input unit, 2 is an attenuator, 3 is an amplifier, 7 to 10 are AD converters,
11 to 14 are sampling memories, 15 is a four-phase clock generator, 16 is a clock generator, 17 is a frequency divider,
18 is a sample control circuit, 19 is a trigger gate generation circuit, and 20 and 21 are switch circuits.

The frequency of the clock from the clock generation circuit 16 is divided according to the time range set by the frequency dividing circuit 17,
Make a sample clock. The four-phase clock generation circuit 15 generates a four-phase clock from the sample clock, and outputs the first phase of the AD converter 7 and the sampling memory 11, the AD converter 8
And the second phase of the sample memory 12, the third phase of the AD converter 9 and the sample memory 13, and the digitizer system of the fourth phase of the AD converter 10 and the sample memory 14 are sequentially and alternately moved to obtain the input signal. Is sampled.

At the time of real time sampling, switches 20 and 2
1 is connected to the lower side and the input signal is digitized without passing through 4 sample holders. That is, when the trigger is generated from the input signal by the trigger gate generation circuit 19, the sample clock after the trigger is counted by the sample control circuit 18, the sample clock from the frequency dividing circuit 17 is stopped, and the sampling is stopped. Thereby, the prescribed waveforms before and after the trigger are stored in the memories 11 to 14.

At the time of equivalent sampling, the switch circuits 20 and 2
1 is connected to the upper side, through the sample holder of 4, AD
The input waveform is digitized by the converter 7. When the trigger comes and the sampling stops, the memories 11 to 14 are sequentially read alternately during the real-time sampling, but only the memory 11 is read during the equivalent sampling.

As described above, at the time of equivalent sampling, digitization is performed using only one system of the polyphase AD converter, so that the characteristic difference of the polyphase AD converter becomes irrelevant. Further, since a digitizing circuit is not specially used for the equivalent sample, it is possible to realize a small increase in cost and power consumption. When this waveform storage device is used for an oscilloscope, the signal stored in the memory is displayed as a waveform by a display circuit 23 having a display via a display control circuit 22.

[0018]

As described above, at the time of equivalent sampling, digitization is performed using only one system of the polyphase AD converter, so that the characteristic difference of the polyphase AD converter becomes irrelevant. Further, since a digitizing circuit is not specially used for the equivalent sample, the cost and power consumption can be reduced.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an overall configuration of an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram illustrating a conventional technique.

FIG. 3 is a block diagram illustrating a conventional technique.

[Explanation of symbols]

1: input section, 2: attenuator, 3: amplifier, 7 to 1
0: AD converter, 11 to 14: sample memory, 1
5: 4-phase clock generation circuit, 16: clock generation circuit,
17: frequency divider circuit, 18: sample control circuit, 1
6: trigger gate generation circuit, 20 and 21: switch circuit, 5: AD converter for equivalent sample, 6: memory for equivalent sample.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A polyphase A comprising a plurality of AD converters
What is claimed is: 1. A waveform storage device which performs a sampling frequency higher than that of a single A / D converter by using a D converter. A waveform storage device for performing equivalent sampling using only one phase of a polyphase AD converter.