The traditional distortion measurement transforms the time signal into the frequency domain to separate fundamental, harmonic and intermodulation components. This technique considers only the mean power in the analyzed interval and neglects the phase information. A new technique for the measurement of the signal distortion in time domain is presented that exploits both amplitude and phase infor...

For many years there has been confusion surrounding distortion and its measurement. This paper will not discuss in detail the causes of “static” or “dynamic” distortion, or the many misconceptions surrounding their reduction or elimination. This has been done by others extremely well (Cordell 1979, Hofer 1980). Instead, a comparison of the distortion measurement techniques available today and t...

[1] Experimental observations of ELF/VLF waves generated using the dual‐beam heating capability of the High frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) HF transmitter in Gakona, Alaska, are compared with the predictions of an ionospheric HF heating model that accounts for the simultaneous propagation and absorption of multiple HF beams. The model output is used to assess three properties ...

A physiologically based nonlinear active cochlear model is presented. The model includes the three-dimensional viscous fluid effects, an orthotropic cochlear partition with dimensional and material property variation along its length, and a nonlinear active feed-forward mechanism of the organ of Corti. A hybrid asymptotic and numerical method combined with Fourier series expansions is used to p...

A low voltage square root domain filter based on the MOSFET square law is proposed. Through the verification of HSPICE simulation, the extendibility and the reliability of the design procedure are proven. A design technique for current-mode square-root domain band-pass filter simulation in a 0.18 μm CMOS process. The basic building block consists of current-mode current mirrors, square-root cir...

Abstract  In this paper a new estimator for the measurement of the rms value of a noncoherent sampled sine-wave is proposed. The key feature of this estimator is that the sine-wave offset, a priori estimated, is removed from the sine-wave. A formula used to estimate the sinewave offset is also given in the paper. It has been proved by means of computer simulations and experimental results that...

This paper presents the design of a sub-threshold CMOS G,„-C low-pass filter in a portable ECG detection system. The proposed filter is formed by cascading 6 stages of identical l^'-order low-pass sections. With a minimum number of active components in the l^'-order section, the noise contribution of the circuit can be kept low while minimizing the size of transistors and capacitors. The filter...

In order to reduce the total harmonic distortion (THD) of a bandpass-based oscillator, instead of using a conventional hard limiter, a multilevel hard limiter (MHL) is proposed which inherently removes the third and the fifth-order harmonics from the frequency spectrum of its output signal. The input–output characteristic of the proposed MHL contains slope values of only zero and infinity, maki...

This paper presents a new three-phase five-level inverter for direct torque control (DTC) drives application. The advantages of the inverter are reduced output harmonics, switching losses and number of power switches. The multilevel PWM modulation method as well as output voltage analysis based on symmetrical sampling are presented. The proposed inverter is compared with the conventional invert...