AUDIO MUSIC SENSOR (See Figure2)
Aim of this section is to detect interprogram
spaces present on a recordedtape.
Both the blanks (interprogram spaces) and the
programs minimum detectable durations can be
easily set by means of 2 external and independent time constants.
Also the minimum detectable input signal level
can be externally adjusted, by a dedicated gain
network.
Main blocks are:
Variablegain limiter amplifier
Signal detector circuitry
Logicblocksableto avoidunproperoperations.
Operations Description (refer to the simplified
schematic ofFigure 2).
a)The two channels left and right mean signal
coming from the preamp chain (AC coupled)
are added (current)at the AMSinput and presented to the limiter amplifier. The limiter amplifier gain is internally fixed to 40dB, and it
could be reduced by the R8 external resistor.
The AMSVth threshold is fixed at 1V. The following signal detector comparator informs of
the presence of music signal (High level out)
and avoids the erroneous detection of very
lowsignal (like noise) as real program.
b)The system moves in blank detection mode
everytime the supply is turned on or, with
power supplied, the AMS On/Off pin (to be
driven by an open collector output) is turned
off (T
1 open). Once this condition has hap-
pened, the capacitor C
15 charges, defining a
minimum reset time, long enough to reset the
Flip-FlopsFF
1 and FF2 and to descharge the
program detector external C
7 capacitor. The
charging current at the AMS SW pin is about
10µA. It follows that the reset time (C
15 x
V
pin7
)/I
C15
is given approximately by 0.122
x
C15 ns where C15 is in µF.
c)From now on where the sum input signal (left-
right) amplified by the limiter exceeds the sig-
nal detector threshold (3) the capacitor C
7
is
forced to charge. When the voltage across
this capacitor reaches the comparator
COMP
1
thresholdvoltage V
th1
(approx.2 Vbe)
FF
1 is set and FF2 is reset. (4) It follows that
Q
1 is turned on discharging the program de-
tectioncapacitor(C
7).
d)Alwayswhen thereis a recorded zone, Q
1
is
on; it becomes off only if a blank section is
reached. When, with a time constant controlled by the R
9,C9 network the voltage at
space detection time pin reaches V
th2
thresh-
old (comparator COMP
2) a true blank section
is detected and the FF
2 is set. (The minimum
chargingtime is approximatelygiven by:
0.69
x C9xR9[sec]
In this conditionQ
2
ison, forcingthe open collector AMS output to go low, informing the
user that a true blank section has been detected. The state is thenable to start from the
above point c). Figures 3-4 show the signal
behaviour.
The device is able to prevent false interspace detection and the end of thetape. (see Fig. 4).
Note:
(3):minimum RMS input signal is given by:
V
in
= AMSVth ⋅
1K + R
8
101K + R
8
⋅ 0.6
whereV
in
is the mean of left and right channels::
V
in
=
V
right
+ V
left
2
(4): the charging current at pin 8 is about 20µA
(half input signal) so program detection time
constantis given by:
C
7
x
2V
be
20µA
= 70xC
7
[µF] = [msec]
It is recommended to insert a resistor (R7) high
enoughto prevent fast C7 capacitor discharging.
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