ARRANGEMENT FOR THE GENERATION OF PULSE TRAINS FOR CHARGE-COUPLED CIRCUITS

摘要

An arrangement for generating pulse trains for charge-coupled circuits employs a plurality of series-connected master-slave JK flip-flop circuits in which a Q output of a flip-flop circuit is connected to a J input of the following flip-flop circuit and in which a terminal for obtaining the generated timing pulses is provided at each Q output of a flip-flop circuit. A pulse train input for providing timing pulses to the flip-flop circuits and for each flip-flop circuit an NAND gate is provided whose output is connected to the clear input of the flip-flop circuit. One input of the NAND gate is connected to the timing pulse input line and another input is connected to a Q output of the following flip-flop circuit, except for the last flip-flop circuit in which the other input of the NAND gate associated therewith is connected to the Q output of the first flip-flop circuit. The K inputs of the flip-flop circuits are connected to a fixed potential, preferably a common connection to ground, and the individual flip-flop circuits may be additionally set by way of the clear inputs. In one embodiment the arrangement is constructed for two-phase operation and in another embodiment the arrangement is constructed for three-phase operation.