Re: High Precision Monostable


"John Larkin" <jjlarkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Tue, 11 Mar 2008 04:15:10 -0700 (PDT), sergio108
<sergio108@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi All.
We are working on a project where we need a very stable monostable to
produce 5 microsecond pulses every time an input pulses arrive. We
have tried IC 74123 and 74221 integrated circuits but the pulse width
is not stable enough. Does anyone know a circuit or integrated circuit
that produce high stable pulse width?. We need 5 microsecond pulses +-
0.01%. Actually we work in a range from 1 to 10 microsecond pulse
width.
Thanks for your help or advice.
Sergio


0.01% of 5 us is 100 PPM, namely 500 picoseconds. That's not the sort
of stability you'll get from simple one-shot type circuits, or even a
precision ramp/comparator. If you don't mind the initial output edge
being synchronized to a clock, you could do this with a counter, with
maybe a small additional analog delay to interpolate between clock
ticks... but it will still be a challenge to hold 500 ps over
temperature, and to keep the pulse-width jitter down.

This will easily do it, but it's not cheap:

http://www.highlandtechnology.com/DSS/T560DS.html

What's the project?

John



Sergio,

a possible solution is to implement more or less a time to digital
interpolator
"backwards", (to deal with the async input).

0) there is a stable enough (...?) clock running at, say 100 MHz ( T= 10
ns)

1) an async input trigger signal
a) triggers a discriminator ( constant fraction ...?)
b) starts an analog integrator
c) sets the output

2) the integrator is stopped and held at its value,
on the next active edge of the 100 MHz clock

3) a counter runs for an integer number of periods of the clock

4) on the finalization of a prescribed count N,
the integrator is restarted from where it was stopped in 2)

5) the integrator runs until a comparator detects a voltage equivalent
to T=10 ns

6) the output is reset

thre are a lot of fine details left for the dedicated reader to deal with...

good luck !

Jure Z.



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