Abstract: In one aspect, the present invention provides a low power consumption matched filter. The signal received at an input terminal is input to a shift register having stages equal to the spread code length number after conversion into digital signals in an A/D converter. The outputs of the shift register stages are input to XOR circuits set corresponding to each stage, so that XOR operations are performed between the outputs and corresponding spread code bits d1 to dN. The outputs of the XOR circuits are analogously added in an analog adder and output from an output terminal. In another aspect, a filter circuit uses an analog operation circuit to prevent lowered operational accuracy caused by residual charge. Input analog signals successively undergo sampling and holding in sample-and-hold circuits, are multiplied by coefficients stored in a shift register by multiplication circuits, and added in an addition circuit.

Abstract: A computational circuit for a multi-value addition comprising a parallel adder, an output adder, a quantizing portion and a logic conversion portion. Addition circuits in the above adders and thresholding circuits in the above quantizing portion consist of voltage-driven circuits including capacitive couplings.

Abstract: A small sensor circuit with reducible electric power consumption is formed by connecting inverting amplifiers comprised of CMOS inverters connected in an odd number of stages, in series to guarantee the linearity of the relationship between inputs and outputs, and connecting an impedance as a sensor between the inputs and outputs, or to an input.

Abstract: A highly accurate vector absolute-value calculation circuit uses analog processing and minimal hardware. Signal voltages corresponding to an I component (real number part) and a Q component (imaginary number part) are input to a first absolute-value calculation circuit 13 and a second absolute-value calculation circuit 14 through terminals 11 and 12, respectively, and they are each converted into absolute-value signals. The component I absolute-value and component Q absolute-value are compared in a comparison circuit 20. According to the result, the larger absolute-value signals are output to an input capacitor 23 of a neural computation circuit, and the smaller absolute-value signals are output to an input capacitor 24 by controlling multiplexers 21 and 22. The capacity ratio of a feedback capacitor 26 of a neural computation circuit and input capacitors 23 and 24 is 11:10:5. The complex number absolute-value calculated by the following formula is output from an output terminal 27.

Abstract: An stable inverted amplifying circuit includes an odd number of CMOS inverters and a feedback capacitance. Balancing resistances decrease the inverter open gain and limit the gain of the entire circuit. Serial capacitances act to prevent low-frequency oscillation. Oscillation-preventing circuits are also provided to reduce high-frequency oscillation. Sleep, refresh, and sleep-refresh switches are used to cancel residual loads and reduce power consumption.

Abstract: A MOS inverter within a large scale integrated circuit (LSI) includes a pair of circuits with the same performance. Each of the circuits includes a plurality of MOS inverters serially connected from the first stage to the last stage. Each of the MOS inverters is provided with an input such that the input of the MOS inverters of the first stage are formed to be adjacent one another.

Abstract: A multiplication and addition circuit multiplies each of a plurality of analog voltages by a corresponding digital multiplier and then adds up the products. First, each bit corresponding to each of the multipliers is multiplied with the corresponding analog voltage. Then, the products for each bit of the multiplier are added. The results are weighted by each bit weight and the weighted values are added. The multipliers are rotated so that there is the number of data transmission errors is lowered.

Abstract: The present invention reduces parasitic capacitance in a capacitive element distribution system by running unit electrode lead lines and common electrode lead lines in different directions so that the conductor lines may be sufficiently separated to suppress parasitic capacitance.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a matched filter circuit of small size and consuming low electric power. Paying attention that a spreading code is a 1 bit data string, an input signal is sampled and held as an analog signal along the time sequence, classified into "1" and "-1" and the classified signals are added in parallel by capacitive coupling in a matched filter circuit according to the present invention.

Abstract: Multiplication is performed including accumulation at high speed by a small quantity of hardware. Analog voltage X.sub.i corresponding to each element of the first input data string is input to capacitance switching circuits 10.sub.1 to 10.sub.n through input terminals 1.sub.1 to 1.sub.n. m bit of digital control data A.sub.i corresponding to each element of the second input data string are input to each capacitance switching circuit 10.sub.i, and each bit a.sub.j of the control signal A.sub.j is input to the corresponding multiplexer circuit 6.sub.ij. In the multiplexer circuit 6.sub.ij, the capacitances C.sub.ij corresponding to the value of each bit of the control signal a.sub.j are connected to the input terminal 1.sub.i or the reference charge V.sub.STD. The voltages corresponding to the products of inputted analog voltages X.sub.1 and the control signals A.sub.i are outputted from each capacitance switching circuit 10.sub.j. The output voltages of each capacitance switching circuit 10.sub.

Abstract: The present invention provides a weighted addition circuit for sampling, holding and performing weighted addition by a circuit smaller than a conventional one. In the weighted addition circuit of to the present invention, a capacitive coupling is connected to a plurality of switches which are further connected only to an input voltage. A voltage is held and a weight is added in the capacitive coupling.

Abstract: MOS inverter forming method within a large scale integrated circuit (LSI) for providing a pair of circuits with the same performance each of which comprise a plurality of MOS inverters serially connected from the first stage to the last stage, each the MOS inverters being provided with an input, characterized in that, the input of the MOS inverters of the first stage are adjacently positioned with facing to each other.

Abstract: An A/D converting circuit for realizing a stable performance without being influenced by variations in characteristic values of each inverter. The A/D converting circuit includes a quantizing inverter which is constructed by a number of unit inverters parallelly connected.

Abstract: A multiplication circuit has two capacitive couplings connected first and second inverting amplifiers, respectively. Two steps of multiplication are performed by this circuit. Input is multiplied by a multiplier of a product of multipliers of the successive multiplication circuits, so the total multiplier can be rather large with similar capacitances to that of the conventional circuit.

Abstract: An A/D converter including a first inverter having a linear characteristic and receiving an analog input voltage, a first quantizing circuit for quantizing the analog input voltage, a capacitive coupling to which an output of the first inverter and the first quantizing circuit are inputted, a second inverter receiving an output of the capacitive coupling and having the same characteristic of the first inverter, and a second quantizing circuit for receiving and quantizing an output of the second inverter. The A/D converter performs successive steps of quantizing/digitizing so as to achieve A/D conversion.

Abstract: The present invention has an object to provide an A/D converting circuit with improved accuracy in an output. In this invention, the initial electric charge is given to a capacitive coupling for outputting in a quantizing circuit so as to cancel the dispersion of thresholds of MOS inverter in the quantizing circuit, the supply voltage of the first and the second inverters is higher than the supply voltage of an inverter for quantizing, as well as the initial electric charge is given to a capacitance for input in order to limit the function of the quantizing circuit within the linear area of the first and the second inverters.

Abstract: A multiplication circuit includes a plurality of switches which receive a common analog input voltage and a reference voltage and which alternatively output the input voltage or the reference voltage. A first capacitive coupling is provided which has a plurality of capacitors, each of which receives an output from a respective switch, and a second capacitive coupling is provided with a plurality of capacitors, each of which likewise receives an output from a respective switch. One or more of the capacitors in the first capacitive coupling is connected to the second capacitive coupling. A first inverted amplifier and a second inverted amplifier are connected in series to the output of the second capacitive coupling with individual feedback.

Abstract: A capacitance forming method for forming capacitances corresponding to a plurality of constant numbers within a large scale integrated circuit (LSI) comprises steps of defining a unit capacitance with a predetermined shape, defining an arrangement of a plurality of the unit capacitances of a number necessary for total capacity of capacitances to be formed in two dimension in an area of the LSI, selecting the unit capacitances of a number corresponding to the maximal capacity among capacities of the capacitances to be formed so that the selected unit capacitances are equivalently dispersed over the area, and successively selecting other of the capacitances than the capacitance of the maximal capacity in the order of capacities, and selecting the unit capacitances of a number corresponding to a capacity of each the capacitance selected so that the selected unit capacitances are equivalently dispersed over an area of the rest of the unit capacitances which have not selected yet.

Abstract: An interface circuit comprising a digital to analog converter which comprises a register for receiving and holding each bit of a digital signal, a capacitive coupling for integrating total bits held in the register with weighting, an inverted amplifier circuit for receiving an output of the capacitive coupling and for outputting an analog output voltage, and a feedback capacitance for connecting an outputs of the inverted amplifier circuit to an input of the inverted amplifier circuit, an analog signal line to which the analog output voltage is connected, and an analog to digital converter which comprises a plurality thresholding circuits with stepwise thresholds to which the analog signal line is commonly inputted, each the thresholding circuit receiving outputs of the thresholding circuits of higher threshold with weighting so that the thresholding circuits repeatedly change the outputs from high level to low level or from low level to high level.

Abstract: An analog input voltage is inputted to a first sample and hold circuit and a second sample and hold circuit is connected to an output of the first sample and hold circuit. The output of the first and second sample and hold circuits are inputted to a multiplexer which alternatively outputs the output of first sample and hold circuit or the second sample and hold circuit. When one of the first and second sample and hold circuits is refreshed, the output of the other sample and hold circuit is selected to be outputted from the multiplexer.