A new stable RC pulse generator


Posted on Feb 4, 2014

This familiar circuit can be implemented with any rail-to-rail-output comparator or the venerable LMC555. The output period is given by 2log(2)RC = 1. 386RC, and the stability is better than ±100 ppm/ °C against temperature and ±100 ppm/V against power-supply variation. But if an output duty cycle different than 50:50 is needed, application of this simple circuit gets complicated.


A new stable RC pulse generator
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That`s because the usual ways in which the basic RC multivibrator is modified for asymmetrical output timing either allow annoying interaction between output duty cycle and period or degrade the tempco and the PSRR. But a new twist to this old circuit ( Fig. 2 ) adds a few diodes to the traditional recipe to allow independent adjustment of pulse width and period while retaining the good frequency stability of the standard topology. The new modification starts with an old idea ”addition of diodes D1 and D2 so that the positive and negative phases of the output cycle are controlled by separate timing resistors R1 and R2. This trick works well and is a handy way to implement a multivibrator with an arbitrary output on/off ratio. The trouble is that D1 and D2`s temperature-dependent diode voltage drops (Vds) can drastically erode both the multivibrator`s output period temperature coefficient and PSRR. Canceling these effects, accomplished with compensation diodes D3 and D4, is the gimmick featured in Figure 2. If Vd3 = Vd1 and Vd4 = Vd2, Figure 3 reveals how the duration of the positive output pulse is now given by: Static Vd effects thus cancel and leave the output period unchanged from the original Figure 1 circuit, which has no diodes at all. Admittedly, this approximation ignores the fact that due to variation in charging current over the RC timing cycle, the various Vds aren`t perfectly constant. Even so, canceling diode...




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