This paper proposes a new method for obtaining a variable long time delay by using a relatively short time delay line, and describes an experimental device made. The device is useful for constructing a real-time process model or an automatic on-line correlator for determination of process characteristics.
An analog signal is sampled at the periods of
T seconds and is sent to the device as a digital signal consisting of serial pulses. Only at every sampling instant, the sampled input is written into the delay line. In the other time, the write head is connected directly to the read head so that the signals circulate round in the delay line. Let the delay time be of
D seconds, and the signals be taken out of the line after
k times circulation as the output,
kD seconds dilayed signals are then obtained. Let the memory capacity be of
n words, one word time length of
τ seconds, and the sampling periods
T of
mτ seconds where the two integers
n and
m have no common divisor. The maximum circulation number is then
m, and the delay time ranges from
D seconds to
mD seconds.
In the experimental device made, a commercially available magnetic tape recorder with both.a write and a read heads giving 0.2 s delay was used. The sampling period ranges from 2 ms to 1.022 s and the maximum time delay from 0.2 s to 102.2 s correspondingly.
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