Circuits & Schematics - Oscillators - 6

Engineers have long used function- generator circuits employing analog integrators and high-hysteresis comparators. The outputs of these circuits often depend on variations in temperature, power-supply voltage, load, and parts. However, you can ...

The circuit works due to the fact that voltage increases or decreases linearly when a constant current flows into or out of a capacitor. If we manage to charge and discharge the capacitor with the same constant current, then the voltage of the ...

The 555 multivibrator circuit has become a default choice of many hobbyists and even professionals in the past 50 years. Its pair of equations for frequency and duty cycle easily gives capacitor-resistor combinations which satisfy the required ...

The synchronous oscillator (SO) and the coherent phase-locked synchronous oscillator (CPSO) are universal multifunctional networks that track, synchronize, and amplify as much as 80 dB; improve SNR by as much as 70 dB; and modulate AM, FM, and FSK ...

Here is a simple frequency doubler circuit that produces a square wave output with a precise 50 percent duty cycle. There are similar circuits in the literature [References 1, 2, 3] which require adjustments or selection of some components to set ...

A fixed-frequency signal generator that can produce outputs simultaneously at multiple phases such as 45 , 90 , 135 , and 180 is sometimes needed for testing multi-channel analog-to-digital converters (ADCs), analog filters, sample/hold circuits, ...

Resonant power supplies are popular because of high efficiency, low noise, and compactness. You can implement a resonant buck or boost converter using a single switch. The regulation of the output in such a converter derives from using a constant ...

A previous Design Idea describes an astable multivibrator that gets hysteresis from the positive feedback stage using a technique you can characterize as positive-capacitive feedback ( Reference 1 ). It creates hysteresis by a charge transfer to ...

Many designs exist for logic-based astable multivibrators, one of the simplest being an RC feedback loop around a single inverting Schmitt trigger inverter (Figure 1). The output charges the capacitor to the upper switching threshold, at which ...

The circuit in Figure 1 is an edge-triggered monostable circuit, based on a previous design of an edge-triggered parabolic-pulse generator ( Reference 1 ). This circuit involves a simple but significant modification of the earlier generator by ...