AGC is essential in every receiver that must handle signals of widely varying strength. AGC adapts the gain in real time to keep the signal. Automatic gain control (AGC), sometimes Automatic volume control (AVC) is a closed-loop feedback regulating circuit in an amplifier or chain of amplifiers, the purpose of which is to maintain a suitable signal amplitude at its output, despite variation of the signal amplitude at the input. Generally applied in communication systems, audio processing, and instrumentation, AGC circuits dynamically adjust the gain of an. Along with its optical sibling of automatic power control (APC), AGC allows circuits to handle signals that inherently and unavoidably have a wide and uncontrolled dynamic range and optimally match the signal range to the capabilities of the circuit and system. This FAQ will look at why AGC is. Figure 1 is a general block diagram for an AGC loop. The input signal passes through the VGA to produce the output level to be stabilized. This is. A fixed gain can produce a constant output amplitude when the input amplitude is known and unchanging, but this is not always the case and, furthermore, sometimes the input amplitude is highly variable. The solution here is something called automatic gain control, abbreviated AGC.