Novice: Explain to me all there is to know about an integrator with a variable gain

Hello,

Can you tell me everything there is to know about these? I think I've seen these in conversations on control theory. Is it that 1/S stuff etc.

What about MIN/MAX limiters, and one frame delays?

Is a MIN/MAX limiter like a minimum function in a computer language? Where a value under consideration would pass through the gate if it's between the min and max inclusive? Otherwise, a default value is output.

Are one frame delays a register that holds the value until the time of the delay is over? What is a frame?

Thank you, Christopher Lusardi

You can get all this in a university course in control systems electronics.

No! No one knows that much!

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Sure: 47

Ed

O'kay straighten me out of my understanding of an integrator with a variable gain. I went to my extensive library collection of 600 books and this is what I think I saw. I saw 2 definitions of what I assume to be the same thing. They used examples. :-)

(1) If you take the Fourier (or maybe Laplace) Transform of equation described via Circuits 101 steps and you have a term 1/S then that's an integrator?

(2) It's an actual mathematical integration operation being performed to determine the output voltage of a circuit?

Help with intuitive specifics of this, Chris Lusardi