mr_chip
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Hi guys,
I was recently looking at block diagram of AD's CCD signal processing chip AD9974. What I do not fully understand is what "Clamp" feedback does? It is also called "Black level clamping" in chip features info. What I understood from Maxim's app notes (**broken link removed**) is that a video signal black level clamping is "a circuit that holds the black level constant, regardless of the video or sync amplitude."
Is it some kind of DC offset compensation?
Here is the block diagram:
**broken link removed**
I was recently looking at block diagram of AD's CCD signal processing chip AD9974. What I do not fully understand is what "Clamp" feedback does? It is also called "Black level clamping" in chip features info. What I understood from Maxim's app notes (**broken link removed**) is that a video signal black level clamping is "a circuit that holds the black level constant, regardless of the video or sync amplitude."
Is it some kind of DC offset compensation?
Here is the block diagram:
**broken link removed**
