Path: ...!Xl.tags.giganews.com!local-2.nntp.ord.giganews.com!nntp.supernews.com!news.supernews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2024 15:28:55 +0000 From: john larkin Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design Subject: Re: Fast monostable with a transistpor array Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2024 08:28:55 -0700 Message-ID: References: User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 48 X-Trace: sv3-6BBaI2VWJ9tUZFYugdI7RvKnsnzGUFPe7CndZesrsf9xe9T87MNdVU8H6JlAUYgxZ+eYuvVwYFM9fKi!Ts1VR0VsBzaV06gb3Vs8hA4+rPZSl6VI9VQZwMxg2nEzaWmNZ8vuprN1KuiDYMBV/M4Sg0Sf4I51!IU8ZBg== X-Complaints-To: www.supernews.com/docs/abuse.html X-DMCA-Complaints-To: www.supernews.com/docs/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 Bytes: 3069 On Tue, 18 Jun 2024 13:48:58 -0000 (UTC), piglet wrote: >john larkin wrote: >> On Tue, 18 Jun 2024 18:44:37 +1000, Bill Sloman >> wrote: >> >>> On 14/06/2024 1:20 am, Bill Sloman wrote: >>>> One option John Larjkin doesn't seem to have explored is using Renesas >>>> HFA3096 five transistor array as basis for his mononstable and level >>>> shifter. >>>> >>>> It offers three 8GHz NPN parts and two 5.5GHz PNP parts in a single array. >>>> >>>> https://www.renesas.com/us/en/document/dst/hfa3046-hfa3096-hfa3127-hfa3128-datasheet?r=494216 >>>> >>>> Two of the NPN parts could make up my emitter-coupled monostable, and >>>> the two PNP parts could level shift the output. >>>> >>>> The Renesas website offers Spice models for both the NPN and the PNP >>>> transistors, which one could plug into an LTSpice simulation, at the >>>> cost of making it look too messy for the more sensitive designers to be >>>> able to look at. >>> >>> I've spent that last four days in hospital with Covid-19 of the colon - >>> dramatic when it started but tedious thereafter. >>> >>> This thread hasn't gone all that well. John Larkin has ignored the fact >>> that I was talking about just the 3096. There have been some sensible >>> comments, but I'm still too sick to try and provide any kind of summing >>> up of the sensible bits. >>> >>> -- >>> Bill Sloman, Sydney >> >> OK, we can defer discussing your one-shot circuit until you feel >> better. I've had some medical adventures of my own. >> >> > >My sympathies to both of you, coincidentally I am just getting back on my >feet after an eight day common cold from hell (was not Covid) I'm now wearing a 24-hour recording EKG thing. It's really no trouble at all. Pretty cool technology. It's a pity that there is no low-drama equivalent for blood pressure.