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From: john larkin <jl@650pot.com>
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Subject: Re: another fast one-shot
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2024 08:31:06 -0700
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On Thu, 13 Jun 2024 16:03:04 +1000, Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org>
wrote:

>On 13/06/2024 4:11 am, john larkin wrote:
>> On Wed, 12 Jun 2024 17:22:49 -0000 (UTC), Cursitor Doom
>> <cd999666@notformail.com> 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?
>
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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.
>
>-- 
>Bill Sloman, Sydney

What a mess. The output pulse width just follows the input pulse
width. Unless you change C1, in which case it oscillates.

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