Abstract: A transversal filter having an overall impulse response of the form ##EQU1## and producing, from an applied input x(t) an output ##EQU2## where y(t) is obtained by lowpass filtering of a waveform z(t) in use generated in the filter, where z(t) takes the form: ##EQU3## where h.sub.i represents a set of stored coefficients,f(.tau.) is an impulse response accounting for fixed linear filtering at the input and output, independent of the settings h.sub.i, and.delta.(.tau.-.tau..sub.i) is the Dirac delta function defined as a function of time interval .tau. and of a set of time delays .tau..sub.i, where .tau..sub.i is not equal to iT.

Abstract: Transient data recorder systems including a high speed charge coupled device and a device exerciser, including a high speed sampler and driver circuitry.

Abstract: Room acoustics simulation is achieved by digitally defining delay and weighting parameters and generating sampled analog signal responses. In the early portion of a response term an accurate impulse response is provided and subsequently high echo density is simulated using sampled analog signal Schroeder sections. A sampled data analog signal device is used which employs charge transfer devices as programmable delay media, multiplying digital to analog converters to generate weighting of the analog signal and a general purpose microprocessor as a parameter calculator. The early impulse response characteristic is accomplished by providing a time domain finite impulse response (FIR) section in a transversal filter arrangement which directly feeds to an ultimate output and to parallel comb filter sections which in turn input to at least one all pass section of the so-called Schroeder configuration. The charge transfer devices are employed as programmable delays to propagate the analog signals.

Abstract: A charge coupled device transversal filter having split electrodes each having a sense portion and a complementary dummy portion. All electrode sense portions are coupled to a single sense line and all dummy portions are connected to a reference voltage. Tap weights are determined by relative lengths of successive sense portions and weighted samples are taken by shifting charge packets from one sense electrode position to a second while sensing the difference in displacement charge induced in successive sense electrodes. The structure is less sensitive to manufacturing tolerances than earlier structures and provides a sense signal with essentially no common mode component to a sense amplifier.

Abstract: A binary transversal filter which has a plurality of stages of shift registers that are driven by timing signals of a frequency which is a multiple of that of clock pulses being introduced, and a weighting circuit which weights outputs of shift registers of each of the stages, so that outputs of the weighting circuit can be synthesized. The characteristic feature of the present invention resides in the facts that NRZ signals are introduced into the shift registers, and the shift registers are driven by timing signals of a frequency which is a multiple of that of clock pulses of the NRZ signals.

Abstract: A circuit for supplying weighting voltages to multipliers of a transversal filter comprises a plurality of electronic switches associated with the multipliers for switching magnitudes of the weighting voltages applied to the multipliers, and memory cells associated with the respective electronic switches for storing digital data to turn on or off the corresponding electronic switches. Those memory cells are sequentially addressed by address circuits to store data which define the magnitudes of the weighting voltages applied to the multipliers.

Abstract: A filter utilizing charge transfer devices for providing recursive transfer functions with a transmission zero at d.c. or zero frequency is described. The filter includes a circular charge transfer shift register having an even number N of stages, greater than two, and first, second, third and fourth linear charge transfer shift registers. All five shift registers are clocked at the same frequency. A first input sequence of packets of charge representing positive weight components of a signal, and a second sequence of packets of charge representing negative weight components of the signal are provided. Means are provided for dividing each of the packets of charge of the first input sequence into a first part and a second part and for applying each of the first parts of the packets of the first input sequence to the input stage of the first shift register and for applying each of the second parts of the packets of the first input sequence to the input stage of the second shift register.

Abstract: The invention relates to a device for reading a quantity of electric charges then injecting in a charge-transfer device a quantity of charges which depends on the quantity previously read. This device comprises a reading grid connected to the source of an MOS charge-injection transistor operating in saturation and formed from two diodes and a control grid.

Abstract: In a filter in which, in order to obtain the desired filter characteristic, a weighted sum of different signals is formed, it is proposed in accordance with the invention that for the formation of said sum means are employed which are constituted by capacitor circuits, which during a first time interval are each charged by said signals, and by a connection circuit for the formation, during a second time interval, of the equivalent of a single capacitor across whose plates the weighted-sum signal appears.The invention is used for the filtration of sampled analog signals.

Abstract: A monolithically integrated filter circuit having low transmission losses and a high upper cutoff frequency has at least one charged transfer device with a closed loop transmission channel provided on a doped semiconductor body to which transmission channels of branch charge transfer devices are connected at predetermined nodal points. Each charge transfer device has shift electrodes arranged over an insulating layer over a limiting surface of the semiconductor body which are charged with clock voltages. Shift electrodes in the immediate proximity of a nodal point are charged with the same clock voltage but are separately allocated to different transmission channels and have a pre-determined surface area ratio with regard to each other and the sum of their surface areas is equal to the surface area of an adjacent shift electrode which is allocated to the closed loop transmission channel.

Abstract: In a delay circuit for delaying an input signal having a range extending over a higher- and a lower-frequency region, and in which a charge transfer device, such a bucket-brigade device, transfers a signal from an input to an output thereof in response to a clocking signal applied to the charge transfer device; a pre-emphasis circuit in advance of the charge transfer device emphasizes the input signal in its higher-frequency region, and a de-emphasis circuit after the charge transfer device emphasizes the signal at the output of the device in the lower-frequency region of the signal to compensate for the emphasis provided by the pre-emphasis circuit so that the delay circuit has a total response that is substantially flat.

Abstract: A recursive digital low-pass filter processes an input signal with essentially unity gain and sharp frequency cutoff without using multipliers to provide an output signal with an information bandwidth substantially one-half that of the input signal.

Abstract: The filter has p stages, p being the number of bits on which are expressed the digital filtering coefficients. Each of the stages has a charge transfer shift register, called the signal register, receiving the analog signal E(t) to be filtered and a charge transfer shift register, called the coefficient register, receiving the M bits of the same weight of the M filtering coefficients. The filter also has an operator which multiplies the signal E(t) by each of the M filtering coefficients and then summates these various products to supply the output signal S(t) of the filter.

Abstract: Disclosed is a charge transfer device, like a transversal filter, having means for detecting if an amount of signal charge transferred from one stage to another falls within a dynamic range of the device. A charge transfer channel is so formed as to have first and second branched output ports. A signal charge transferred to the first output port is detected as an output signal supplied to a utilization circuit while an output voltage caused by a signal charge transferred to the second output port is compared with first and second reference voltages which correspond to first and second amounts of signal charges substantially determining upper and lower limits of the dynamic range of the device, whereby it is detected if the amount of the signal charge transferred is within the dynamic range or not. As a result of the detection when the signal charge amount is outside the dynamic range, the supply of the output signal to the utilization circuit is interrupted.

Abstract: Transient data recorder systems including a high speed charge coupled device and a device exerciser, including a high speed sampler and driver circuitry.

Abstract: A filter circuit of the type utilizing a charge-transfer device, such as a bucket brigade device, comprises a clocking signal drive circuit for supplying a clocking signal; a clock signal generator at whose output a clocking control signal is provided; a transistor whose base is connected to the output of the clock signal generator; a plurality of successive capacitive storage stages for sequentially holding a charge level representing a time-sampled input signal, each of the capacitive storage stages having a clocking electrode for receiving the clocking signal so that the charge level is transferred from one to another of the capacitive storage stages in succession, and at least one of the capacitive storage stages being formed of first and second parallel-connected capacitive circuit portions, and the first and second capacitive circuit portions having respective clocking electrodes coupled to the clock signal generator and to the emitter of the transistor, respectively; and a current feedback circuit, suc

Abstract: The invention relates to an input stage for a charge transfer device (CTD) arrangement which contains a source zone in a semiconductor body, two input electrodes, and a transfer gate, wherein one input gate is connected to a fixed voltage, and the other input gate is supplied with an analog input signal. In input stages of this kind, it is endeavored to evaluate the input signal within the widest possible limits without the need of altering the assigned semiconductor surface. The invention achieves this aim in that the input stage is divided into two input channels which possess different widths and which open into the CTD channel. A positive evaluation of the input signal is carried out via the first input channel, whereas a negative evaluation is carried out via the second input channel. The difference in area between the second input gate electrodes of the two input channels represents a gauge of the evaluation coefficient and can be kept very small.

Abstract: The invention relates to filters using a charge-transfer device as an active element it consists in providing such a filter with an output circuit of first order interpolator type; this circuit may be external to the charge-transfer device or partially integrated threwith by associating therewith an additional weighting cell and by using another set of weighting coefficients.

Abstract: A non-recursive transversal filter circuit employs a charge transfer device in which certain of the capacitive storage elements are divided into first and second capacitive portions having predetermined capacitance relationships. The charge in the second capacitive storage elements is sensed at predetermined times to produce an output signal. The relative capacitances of the second capacitance portions provide weighting factors to the filter. Embodiments include bucket brigade devices with bipolar and FET transistors as well as charge coupled devices.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for operating recursive filter circuits or analog storage circuits constructed according to the charge coupled device principle and relates to a circuit arrangement for implementing the method, in which method only each respective second stage of a CCD is occupied with a charge representing a sampling value of an analog signal and the respective stages lying between these stages concerned and left empty. Known circuits constructed according to the CCD principle conduct the signal from the output stage of a CCD chain to the input of the CCD loop via an amplifier to which the input signal is supplied at the same time. Thereby, the amplification must very precisely amount to one. An amplifier of the high stability required thereto which is arranged in common with the concerned CCD on a chip cannot be satisfactorily realized.

Abstract: A method and an apparatus for selectively summing the time-varying components of a plurality of electrical voltages are disclosed. The electrical voltages can each be characterized by a quiescent bias component and a time-varying small signal information component. Each electrical voltage is selectively connected to at most one of a plurality of summing buses and each bus is allowed to separately float to a quiescent voltage level corresponding approximately to a selected average value of the bias components of the signals connected thereto. The potential difference measured between the buses corresponds to the difference in the weighted average values of the time-varying components connected to each bus. The weights may be equal or unequal. The method and apparatus provide means for implementing programmable transversal filters and correlation devices.

Abstract: One storage electrode of the filter out of two is cut into two parts. The weighting coefficients are elaborated by reading means connected to a part of each cut storage electrode which read negatively the charges leaving a so-called negative cut storage electrode and positively the charges arriving under the next so-called positive cut storage electrode.

Abstract: A plurality of MIS charge transfer systems are connected to the output of a first MIS charge transfer system and are operated in parallel with each other. The plurality of charge transfer systems form filters of the same kind, or of a different kind, and charge packets emitted thereby have different delay times and are subsequently converted into a voltage which is sampled at a higher frequency than the sampling frequency for the signal which is applied to the input of the first MIS charge transfer system. This voltage is smoothed by a simple low pass filter.

Abstract: A CTD recursive filter includes a single channel with two side-by-side CTD delay lines wherein charges are transferred in opposite directions. Each electrode of the first delay line forms a pair with a corresponding electrode of the second delay line. Each even pair of electrodes are separated from the next odd pair of electrodes by an even bridge electrode occupying the entire width of the channel. Each odd pair of electrodes are separated from the next even pair of electrodes by an odd bridge electrode also occupying the entire width of the channel. An electrode of the first line in an even pair and the electrode of the second line in the next odd pair have lengths the sum of which is a constant. An electrode of the first line in an odd pair and the electrode of the second line in the next even pair have lengths, the sum of which is equal to the constant. At each odd clock pulse, the odd bridge electrode charges are distributed to the closer even bridge electrodes.

Abstract: A time delay and integrate signal processing device is provided to which, in use, a clock signal having a duty cycle which varies linearly with time at a predetermined rate is applied at an input. The number of delay stages in the path of signals from a plurality of input taps is determined in accordance with a predetermined function of the rate of change of the clock duty cycle.Embodiments of the invention may be employed to advantage in SONAR applications where signals are received from a plurality of transducers to scan a sector by constructive summation of signal returns. The predetermined function may be chosen to minimize distortion during a scan and so scanning may take place at a higher rate than with prior art devices enabling full coverage of the sector with good range resolution to be achieved with a single device.

Abstract: A filter is described utilizing charge transfer devices for providing exponential smoothing of sampled data signals with a transmission zero at a predetermined frequency. A first shift register is provided having N serially coupled stages to each of which is coupled a respective accumulator stage. A second shift register is provided having N serially coupled stages. A sequence of packets of charge is provided, each packet representing a respective sample of an input signal. Each packet of the sequence is divided into a first part and a second part, the ratio of the first part to the second part being equal to a first fixed value. Each of the first parts of the packets of the sequence is applied to the first shift register and is sequentially processed in successive stages thereof to provide an output. Each of the second parts of the packets of the sequence is applied to the second shift register and transferred from stage to stage to provide another output.

Abstract: A filter is described utilizing charge transfer devices for implementing transmission zeros. A first shift register is provided having a plurality of M stages, where M is an integer, each stage including a respective first charge storage region. A second shift register is provided having a plurality of N stages where N is an integer greater than M, each stage including a respective first charge storage region. A first sequence of packets of charge is provided, each packet representing a respective sample of an input signal. Each of the packets of charge of the sequence is divided into a first part and a second part equal to the first part. Each of the first parts of the packets of the first sequence is applied to the first shift register and transferred from stage to stage thereof at one frequency. Each of the second parts of the packets of the first sequence is applied to the second shift register and transferred from stage to stage thereof at the aforementioned one frequency.

Abstract: A charge transfer filter utilizing a charge transfer accumulator structure for exponential smoothing of sampled data signals is described. The charge transfer accumulator structure performs charge equilibration at high speed thereby enabling an exponential decay impulse response to be obtained at high speed.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for operating recursive filter circuits or analog storage circuits constructed according to the charge coupled device principle and to a circuit arrangement for implementing the method, in which method only each respective second stage a CCD is occupied with a charge representing a sampling value of an analog signal and the respective stages lying between these stages concerned are left empty. Known circuits constructed according to the CCD principle conduct the signal from the output stage of a CCD chain to the input of the CCD loop via an amplifier to which the input signal is supplied at the same time. Thereby, the amplification must very precisely amount to 1. An amplifier of the high stability required for that purpose which is arranged in common with the CCD concerned on a chip cannot be satisfactorily realized.

Abstract: An electrical filter circuit comprising charge transfer devices formed as lines consisting of individual CTD elements formed as four-terminal resonators formed as closed looped circuits and which determine the frequency-dependent transmission behavior of the filter circuit and wherein the four-terminal resonators are interconnected by way of a coupling circuit. In the invention, the filter circuit functions as a separating and shunt circuit and can be formed as an integrated circuit with two end resonators designed as self-contained closed looped circuits.

Abstract: A filter circuit utilizing charge transfer delay lines having individual CTD elements utilizing four-terminal resonators each of which is designated as a self-contained closed looped circuit and which determine the frequency dependent transmission characteristics of the filter circuit and wherein successive four-terminal resonators are interconnected by way of a coupling circuit. The invention utilizes the coupling circuit mounted between adjacent four-terminal resonators which are constructed simply as possible and utilizing integrated circuit techniques. Amplifiers are connected in parallel with the input and/or the output of the individual four-terminal resonators and the signal flow direction of the amplifiers corresponds to that of parallel connected CTD lines and the series lines of the coupling circuit and the amplifiers have unidirectional transmission characteristics and an inverting amplifier is contained in at least one of the series lines.

Abstract: A filter comprising a cascade arrangement of closed line CTD filtering loops has an intermediate CTD coupling loop formed with the adjoining output coupling of the preceding filter loop and input coupling of the succeeding filter loop. Disturbing self-oscillations outside the desired passband are eliminated by adjusting the voltage amplification factors of the amplifiers within the intermediate coupling loop, for example to from about five percent to about fifteen percent less than values selected to give a pure reactance branching circuit at the middle pass frequency. The resulting slight distortion of the transmission characteristic in the pass band of the filter can then be compensated by adjusting the amplifications of other amplifiers, and if necessary the capacitance conditions can be additionally altered.

Abstract: A switching circuit (2) consisting of CTD lines (p.sub.1,q.sub.1,p.sub.2,q.sub.2,p.sub.3,q.sub.3) is specified in which the properties characteristic for non-unidirectional microwave lines (FIG. 1) are also retained for CTD switching circuits (FIG. 2). To that end, CTD lines (for example, p.sub.1,q.sub.1) exhibiting mutually opposing conducting directions are combined into a line pair and each incoming line (p.sub.1) is connected with each out-going line (q.sub.1). The connection ensues partially via CTD lines (c.sub.1 +c.sub.1 ') and, for the other part, via a galvanic line (L.sub.1). Such switching circuits can be employed for the construction of CTD filters with steepness-increased transmission characteristic and also for the construction of correcting circuits.

Abstract: A dynamically variable electronic delay line for real time ultrasonic imaging systems is disclosed which controllably phases the signals associated with an array of electromechanical transducer elements and thereby enables selective scanning and dynamic focusing of a target. A controllable variable electronic time delay apparatus is coupled to each of the electromechanical transducer elements of the array having separate write-in and read-out addressing capabilities. The signals associated with a respective ultrasonic transducer element are fed in at selected write-in addresses and subsequently read-out and extracted after an initial time delay interval. The write-in and read-out address pointers of the memory system are continuously sequenced during operation of the device and the time delay interval is a function of the difference between the addresses and the clock rate.

Abstract: A resonator circuit formed in MOS technology for scanned analog signals, wherein such circuits are constructed for use with accumulators and information processing is accomplished by means of switched capacitors which are charged or respectively connected to each other by way of clock pulse transistors. In the present invention, the realization of general ladder networks or branching circuits for builders in single layer MOS techniques is accomplished by utilizing a second continuous branch which is switched to a first accumulator stage by clock pulse switches and is connected with a reference potential through a capacitor as well as to a further accumulator input through a series switch. The signal series arms are connected with the outputs of the total accumulator arrangement by way of time delay transit elements.

Abstract: Charge transfer filtering device which comprises a recursive filter and a non-recursive filter. The two filters on separate semiconductor substrates have charge injection means 12, 10 receiving the input signal E for the non-recursive filter 2 and the output signal S, previously phase-displaced by 180.degree. by means 9, for the recursive filter 1. Means 15, 16, common to both filters, ensure the reading and summation of the charge quantities weighted by means P and 14 and then the supply of the output signal S.

Abstract: A filter utilizing charge transfer devices and having resonant transfer characteristics is described. The filter includes a first charge transfer shift register including a plurality of stages to which a first sequence of packets of charge is serially applied and clocked from stage to stage. Charge division and collection means are provided at the various stages of the shift register to divide and collect fractions of charge appearing in the various stages thereof. The charge collection means of the various stages except the last are connected together to provide a first output representing the sum of the charges collected at the various stages thereof. These fractions represent the weighting coefficients of the various stages of the first shift register. A second charge transfer shift register identical to the first shift register is provided. A second sequence of packets of charge is serially applied to the second shift register and clocked from stage to stage.

Abstract: A filter utilizing charge transfer devices for providing recursive transfer functions is described. The filter includes a circular charge transfer shift register having an even number N of stages, greater than two, and first and second linear charge transfer shift registers. A composite stage of the first linear shift register is coupled to the N.sup.th stage of the circular shift register through a first gating means. A composite stage of the second shift register is coupled to the ##EQU1## stage of the circular shift register through a second gating means. A first sequence of packets of charge is applied to the first shift register, and a second sequence of packets is applied to the second shift register. All three shift registers are clocked at the same frequency. At the end of each clocking cycle the first gating means is operative to combine the charge stored in the N.sup.

Abstract: A sampled data transversal filter utilizing charge transfer devices is described. The filter includes a charge transfer shift register including a plurality of stages to which a sequence of packets of charge representing samples of a signal is serially applied and clocked from stage to stage. Charge division and collection means are provided at the various stages of the shift register to divide and collect the fractions of charge appearing in the various stages thereof. These fractions represent the weighting coefficients of the various stages of the shift register. The charge collection means of the various stages are connected together to provide an output representing the sum of the charges collected at the various stages. The output sequence of packets of charge obtained represent the convolution of the input sequence of packets with the weighting coefficients of the various stages of the shift register.

Abstract: As all the weighting coefficients of the filter are positive, a weighted charge quantity is collected by a line beneath one of the elementary electrodes of each weighting electrode. A charge reading device is coupled to the line and supplies an electrical signal which is transmitted to the negative input of a differential amplifier, which receives the sampled input voltage of the filter at its positive input. The electrical output signal of the filter is taken, under low impedance, at the output of the differential amplifier, said signal being reinjected at the input of the filter by the injecting means.

Abstract: A differential charge-transfer device for transversal filtering or delay line applications. It comprises: two charge-transfer channels which respectively receive the two signals, the difference between which is to be formed; an electrode common to both channels; means for sampling the signals in each channel, this sampling taking place at the same instants in both channels; a set of electrodes in each channel which, on the application of potentials of period T, propagate the samples to the common electrode with a relative delay equal to T/2 from one channel to the other. The signal representing the difference between the input signals is extracted at the common electrode.

Abstract: The invention relates to a CTD arrangement comprising an input stage (ETS) which increases each of the input, signal-dependent charge quantities by basic charges (fat zero). In arrangements of this kind, it is endeavored to eliminate the influence of fluctuations in operating voltages upon the d.c. voltage component or d.c. component of the output signal. The invention solves this problem in that a compensation stage (KST) which fully eliminates the added basic charges is inserted into the CTD channel. The sphere of application for the invention includes CTD circuits, and in particular CTD transversal filter circuits.

Abstract: Apparatus for forming one or more sonar beams in response to acoustic energy received by a transducer array. To minimize volume utilization, a plurality of CCD's are formed on an integrated circuit chip with the CCD's being of progressively smaller length. Half of the CCD array is folded over to match the other half so that each CCD has an opposing CCD with both CCD's propagating a signal toward a common output diode. By providing one integrated circuit chip for each desired beam with appropriately different clocking frequencies multiple beams may be formed, and with the provision of a variable clocking frequency, one or more beams may be steered.Transversal filter operations may also be performed by the apparatus.

Abstract: The invention relates to an integrated filter circuit including a charge transfer device (CTD) transversal filter to which a sample-and-hold stage is post-connected. In such filters, a smoothing of the step-shaped signal output voltage emitted from the said stage is strived for. According to the invention, the smoothing ensues by means of a RC low pass which is realized by means of a "switched capacitor" circuit. This has two capacitors and two alternatively actuatable, electronic switches. The area of employment of the invention particularly embraces CTD transversal filters which are employed in systems with varying clock pulse frequencies.

Abstract: An input-weighted charge transfer transversal filter which comprises a charge transfer device including a plurality of stages, a plurality of signal charge injectors to inject into the stages of the charge transfer device weighted signal charge packets containing an AC component and a DC component, and a sense amplifier to sense the output signal of the transversal filter from the final stage of the charge transfer device, a DC charge injector to inject a predetermined quantity of DC charge into the first stage of the charge transfer device, and charge drains respectively coupled to the stages of the charge transfer device to drain at least DC charge from stages. Due to this arrangement the quantity of DC component injected by the signal charge injectors and transferred through the charge transfer device will be reduced. This leads to an improvement in packing density and signal detecting capability of the transversal filter.

Abstract: This invention relates to an integrated filter circuit with a charge transfer device transversal filter and a further low-pass filter pre-connected to the transversal filter. The pre-connected filter includes a first capacitor and a second, significantly smaller capacitor, as well as two alternately actuable electronic switches.

Abstract: A filter in the form of a semiconductor charge coupled device (CCD) split electrode transveral filter section (10) of many transfer stages, typically of the order of 150, is characterized by a controllable detection threshold level by means of the addition of an auxiliary CCD split-electrode section (20) of but a few stages, typically one or two. Each segment of a split-electrode 209 of this auxiliary section (20) is connected to the corresponding sense line of the transveral filter section (10).

Abstract: When the frequency of an input sound signal applied to a shifting type echo-machine is close to that of the shift pulse thereof, a false signal appears at the output terminal of the echo-machine, in addition to the other type of noise signal caused by inclusion of the shift pulse component in the output of the same. The present invention is an echo-machine provided with first and second low pass filters, arranged before and after the delay element included in the echo-machine respectively, with a variable cut-off frequency which varies in accordance with the frequency of the shift pulse thereby eliminating such an erroneous signal and the shift pulse component from the output signal of the echo-machine.

Abstract: In a multiplexed filtering device the first and second input signals are respectively sampled to give a third signal and sampled and delayed to give a fourth signal. An adder whose output is connected to the control electrode of a charge transfer device of a hybrid filter, adds alternately the third signal to a sampled signal corresponding to the third signal and coming from the recursive part of the hybrid filter and the fourth signal to a sampled signal corresponding to the fourth signal and coming from the recursive part of the hybrid filter. The output signals of the non-recursive part of the hybrid filter are summed by a reading amplifier, the output of which constitutes the output of the hybrid filter; after which they are demultiplexed and delayed for the restoration of the first input signal and only demultiplexed for the restoration of the second input signal.

Abstract: A phase multiplexed CCD transversal filter includes N substantially identical parallel-connected CCD's which acquire samples in a predetermined consecutive order over a given clock cycle so that the apparent sampling frequency is equal to N times the clock frequency. The output taps of the CCD's are weighted in a predetermined manner to provide a filter having a predetermined transfer function.