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Digital frequency shift key modulator

  • US 3,991,389 A
  • Filed: 09/18/1974
  • Issued: 11/09/1976
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/18/1974
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A modulator for producing output sine wave signals of different frequencies to correspond with different mark and space signal levels on an input of the modulator, comprising:

  • an oscillator,a first counter driven by said oscillator and having a pair of outputs and being constructed so as to have a signal on a first one of its said outputs for a predetermined number of input pulses applied to it from said oscillator and to have a signal on its second output for another predetermined number of input pulses applied to it from said oscillator,a second counter having a plurality of outputs,gating means under the control of said mark and space signal levels so as to connect said first output of said first counter to said second counter on the existence of said mark signal level and to connect said second output of said first counter to said second counter on the existence of said space signal level,synthesizing means having said outputs of said second counter as inputs and effective to produce an output signal which first increases in steps and then decreases in steps that correspond with the increasing discrete counts in said second counter to thereby synthesize and produce stepped sine wave output signals,a filter having said stepped sine wave output signals applied thereto as an input and smoothing the signals to produce smooth sine wave output signals having different frequencies in accordance with the mark and space signal levels applied to the modulator, anda selectively operated control effective on said first counter for changing at least one of said predetermined number of input pulses applied to said first counter from said oscillator for each output signal on one of said outputs of said first counter so as to thereby change the relationship of the frequencies of said output signals from said filter corresponding to said mark and space signal levels.

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