• A digital comparator or magnitude comparator is a hardware electronic device that takes two numbers as input in binary form and determines whether one...
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    In electronics, a comparator is a device that compares two voltages or currents and outputs a digital signal indicating which is larger. It has two analog...
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    a bank of comparators sampling the input signal in parallel, each firing for a specific voltage range. The comparator bank feeds a digital encoder logic...
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    Schmitt trigger (category Digital electronics)
    Schmitt trigger is a comparator circuit with hysteresis implemented by applying positive feedback to the noninverting input of a comparator or differential...
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  • Comparator may refer to: A biological comparator system An electrical comparator various data comparators including cmp and diff A digital comparator...
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    An optical comparator (often called just a comparator in context) or profile projector is a device that applies the principles of optics to the inspection...
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    A blink comparator is a viewing apparatus formerly used by astronomers to find differences between two photographs of the night sky. It permits rapid switching...
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    of the comparator to provide the DAC with a digital code whose accuracy increases each successive iteration. A DAC that supplies the comparator with an...
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  • synthesis technique. The circuit for the Millionaires' Problem is a digital comparator circuit (which is a chain of full adders working as a subtractor and...
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    of a feedback loop containing a switching device such as a transistor, comparator, relay, op amp, or a negative resistance device like a tunnel diode, that...
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  • List of 4000-series integrated circuits (category Digital electronics)
    The following is a list of CMOS 4000-series digital logic integrated circuits. In 1968, the original 4000-series was introduced by RCA. Although more...
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  • direct-conversion ADC) is a type of analog-to-digital converter that uses a linear voltage ladder with a comparator at each "rung" of the ladder to compare...
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    was limited to devices with a parallel interface. In 1980 amplitude comparators were moved from subgroup СА to subgroup СК. For the 1980 standard subgroup...
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  • 200 MHz. Interpolation is done with a ramp, an 8-bit digital-to-analog converter, and a comparator. The resolution is about 45 ps. When the start pulse...
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    digital computers and production-line testing.[citation needed] If Uin is greater than Urefbot and Uin is lower than Ureftop then both comparators' outputs...
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    matches P e r i o d {\displaystyle Period} , which causes the identity comparator to strobe EndCycle, thus resetting the counter and starting the next output...
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  • applications. When positive feedback is required, a comparator is usually more appropriate. See Comparator applications for further information. In this article...
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    covered by 10 bit counter (29 < lines < 210 → 512 < 576 < 1024). The digital comparator, feed by the line number preset and the counter detects the logical...
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  • programmable counter IC such as the 8253 instead of a comparator. This provides stable digital pitch generation by using the leading edge of a square...
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    modulation. A simple means of creating the PWM signal is to use a high-speed comparator ("C" in the block diagram above) that compares a high-frequency triangular...
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    calibration Digital volume control Programmable comparators Programmable low/high-pass filters Motorized potentiometer Console automation "Digital potentiometers...
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    Delta-sigma modulation (category Digital signal processing)
    uses either a Schmitt trigger (i.e. a comparator with hysteresis) or (as the paper argues is equivalent) a comparator with fixed delay. In the example in...
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  • calls) ASTROTAC Comparator (Supporting VSELP & IMBE (P25) Digital Calls) ASTROTAC 3000 Voting Comparator (Supporting analog & IMBE (P25) Digital calls) GCM...
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    triggers a comparator warning. The instrument comparator thus provides both comparator monitoring and display monitoring. With EFIS, the comparator function...
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  • 2 MSPS and internal or external voltage reference three analog comparators 16 digital comparators up to ten I2C interfaces up to two CAN 2.0A, 2.0B interfaces...
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    A phase detector or phase comparator is a frequency mixer, analog multiplier or logic circuit that generates a signal which represents the difference in...
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    input of another comparator. A threshold value is connected to the inverting input of the other comparator. The output of both comparators is fed through...
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  • integrate the unknown and measures how long the reference integration took, a comparator to detect zero crossing, and a controller. Depending on the implementation...
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    VCONTROL. Threshold comparator: The comparator's negative input is connected to voltage divider's upper reference voltage, and the comparator's positive input...
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    applied in multi-bit analog-to-digital converters (ADCs). They are also used in dynamic voltage comparator circuits. Comparator Mixed-signal integrated circuit...
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