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Article: California Inventors Develop Techniques for Digital Automatic Gain Control
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- April 15, 2008
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ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- Ning Zhang of Milpitas, Calif., and William J. McFarland of Los Altos, Calif., have developed a techniques for automatic gain control.
According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automatic gain control (AGC) technique can quickly sense signal size over a large dynamic range by using a peak detector block in the analog portion of the receiver. The peak detector block can compare a received signal to predetermined thresholds (chosen to divide a potential signal range into smaller ranges). Therefore, the peak detector block can assist the automatic gain control (AGC) in quickly sizing the received signal."
An abstract of the invention, released by the ...