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From: john larkin
Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design
Subject: Re: another fast one-shot
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2024 22:23:30 -0700
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On Fri, 14 Jun 2024 19:02:11 +0100, piglet
wrote:
>On 13/06/2024 07:03, Bill Sloman wrote:
>> On 13/06/2024 4:11 am, john larkin wrote:
>>> On Wed, 12 Jun 2024 17:22:49 -0000 (UTC), Cursitor Doom
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Wed, 12 Jun 2024 09:33:17 -0700, john larkin wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Here's another idea for a fast one-shot. This is the just-apply-money
>>>>> version and should get close to 1 ns pulse width and should easily
>>>>> trigger at 150 MHz.
>>>>>
>>>>> https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/1okfo8964bw5m53mjmxs6/
>>>> Pecl_One_Shot_1.jpg?rlkey=dwus6qjyqsynl2rv6uje2xxtj&raw=1
>>>>>
>>>>> I can use the other half of the dual comparator elsewhere. This one has
>>>>> programmable hysteresis too.
>>>>
>>>> Exposing my contemptworthy ignorance here no doubt, but what exactly
>>>> is it
>>>> that is fast about this design, John? And what would its application be?
>>>
>>> It would have a leading-edge prop delay of 350 ps, a minimum pulse
>>> width just over 1 ns, and would easily trigger at 150 MHz. Integrated
>>> one-shots, xxx123 types, are always terrible, even the obsolete ECL
>>> ones.
>>>
>>> It would be a programmable delay in a number of possible products,
>>> including some optical modulators. Just playing right now.
>>>
>>> More dollars could certainly do something faster, but as long as
>>> customers connect boxes with cables, faster isn't worth a lot. Light
>>> just moves too slow.
>>>
>>> Any suggestions for a faster one-shot?
>>
>> Version 4
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>>
>> It's just a two transistor emitter-coupled monostable, but with the two
>> transistors as BFR92's run at 10mA, it produces 1nsec pulse without fuss.
>>
>> Finding the broad-band PNPs to let you translate the output pulse to a
>> useful voltage level is tricky. Phil Hobbs has told us that there is a
>> least one still in production and available.
>>
>
>It is a pity it relies on an input pulse shorter than the output - at
>those speeds it would nicer to have a step input somehow?
>
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