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Make a simple ramp generator for stepper motors - 04/04/02 EDN-Design Ideas: Stepper motors are synchronous motors that step at the pulse rate of the driving signal. For the motor to move quickly, the stepping rate must be fast. However, because of motor and load inertia, the motor often cannot go from 0 rpm to the desired number of revolutions per minute in one step.....(design idea added 1/05)
Medium Power 125kHz Oscillator - This circuit is similar to CMOS INVERTERS FORM 125KHZ OSCILLATOR but adds more inverters in parallel to deliver yet more power.  The values shown are for 125KHz. ….(designed by David A. Johnson)
Medium Power 125kHz Oscillator-2 - This circuit is similar to MEDIUM POWER 125KHZ OSCILLATOR but adds even more inverters in parallel to deliver yet more power.  The values shown are for 125KHz. ….(designed by David A. Johnson)
Mic Circuit Tester - Small oscillator to check mic & line circuits during sound setup.  440 Hz Tone generator for testing XLR microph1-lines (added 5/02)
Micro-power Band-pass Network - Circuit Ideas for Designers Application Notes Advanced Linear Devices, Inc.  (app note added 6/06)
Microprocessor generates programmable clock sequences - 07/20/06 EDN-Design Ideas: Produce custom-programmed pulse-width modulated waveforms for less than $1.....(design idea added 9/08)
MonoStable Flip Flops One Shot - (electronic schematic / circuit added 4/02)
NanoPower LC Colpitts Oscillator Circuits - Circuit Ideas for Designers Application Notes Advanced Linear Devices, Inc.  (app note added 6/06)
Negatrons Enrich Filter Oscillator Designs - 07/21/94 EDN-Design Ideas: The latest wave of high-performance op amps allows you to incorporate "negatrons" (synthesized negative resistors)into your oscillators and filters. Fig 1 shows the universal filter/oscillator circuit based on a simulated lossy inductor and a negative resistance, which compensates.....(design idea added 3/03)
NTSC Test Signal Generator - An accurate test signal generator for television calibration and measurements.  (added 6/06)
One IC 2 Tones Siren Double Tone Police Sound Single Tone Old Ambulance Sound - This circuit is intended for children fun, and is suitable to be installed on bicycles, battery powered cars and motorcycles, but also in models and other games. With SW1 positioned as shown in the circuit diagram it reproduces the typical dual tone sound of Police....(added 9/04)
One Second Time Base from Crystal Oscillator - (electronic circuit added 7/03)
OpAmp Oscillators Simplify RF Designs - 10/10/96 EDN-Design Ideas: (design idea added 3/03)
Oscillator Circuit Types - Electronic Circuit design (added 02/05)
Oscillator Lowers Distortion & Phase Noise - 08/18/94 EDN-Design Ideas: In addition to its normal role of controlling oscillation frequency, the crystal in Fig 1 also acts as a high-Q, self-tuned output filter, which rejects the noise and harmonics of its input voltage, VB. The result is a clean output-frequency spectrum. With an.....(design idea added 3/03)
Oscillator turns on Instantly off Synchronously - 05/23/96 EDN-Design Ideas: (design idea added 3/03)
Oscillator uses dual output current controlled conveyors - 11/13/08 EDN-Design Ideas: ,  Varying the bias current of dual-output current-controlled conveyors controls the frequency of oscillation of the circuits.....(design idea added 08/09)
Pager Testing Using the 8648A with an Internal Pager Encoder, Option 1EP - Agilent Application Note  (added 6/06)
PC's serial Port controls programmable sine wave generator - 09/01/06 EDN-Design Ideas: Audio-frequency signal source uses few components.....(design idea added 10/06)
PIC Controlled DDS VFO 0 to 6 MHz - (electronic schematic / circuit added 4/02)
Pierce Crystal Oscillator Design - The Pierce oscillator ... is essentially a common emitter amplifier with a tuned circuit for a collector load and a quartz crystal as a feedback element. In order to determine whether the Barkhausen criteria is satisfied, loop gain must be determined at the frequency of oscillation. This is accomplished by drawing the AC equivalent circuit of the Pierce Oscillator... (added 02/05)
Pierce-gate Oscillator Crystal load calculator - RF Design Design Tips, July 2004 (added 02/05)
Portable DAC with Headphone Amplifier - This portable DAC can improve the sound from portable devices, such as PCDPs, and other digital gear that has a TOSLINK optical or coax digital output. It features the Burr-Brown DIR1703 receiver and the Analog AD1866 DAC ICs for digital conversion and a high-quality….(electronic circuit added 01/08)
Positive Feedback - The use of positive feedback is useful for producing oscillators. The condition for positive feedback is that a portion of the output is combined in phase with the input. For an amplifer with positive feedback the gain is given by the expression below. (added 02/05)
PRBS generator runs at 1.5 Gbps - 03/29/07 EDN-Design Ideas: FPGA and serializer generate fast sequences to test communications links.....(design idea added 04/07)
Precision Waveform Converter uses Sawtooth Wave - 03/01/96 EDN-Design Ideas: (design idea added 03/03)
Programmable analog circuits yield single chip sinusoidal oscillators - 01/19/06 EDN-Design Ideas: Internally programmed low-pass filters yield classic RC oscillator.....(design idea added 2/06)
Programmable Oscillator uses Digital potentiometers - 03/07/02 EDN-Design Ideas: Digital potentiometers are versatile devices; you can use them in many filtering and waveform-generation applications. This Design Idea describes an oscillator in which setting the resistance of two digital potentiometers independently programs the oscillation amplitude and frequency.....(design idea added 1/05)
Programmable Ramp Generator has 14 Bit Linearity - 09/12/96 EDN-Design Ideas:   This linear ramp generator uses a DAC, a transistor array, MOSFET switches, and current-steering techniques to achieve 14-bit linearity (Figure 1). The output current of IC1, a DAC-10, is a product of the digital code and the reference-current input, where IO=(code/1024)×2IR. IR is.....(design idea added 5/02)
Programmed reference oscillator generates nonstandard clock frequencies - 04/27/06 EDN-Design Ideas: Small assembly-language process exploits equalized, fixed-length branch loops with only 12 instructions.....(design idea added 9/08)
Pulse Stretcher Increases ECL Gate Gains - 01/20/94 EDN-Design Ideas: stretches the output pulses of an ECL comparator by operating the ECL line receivers with unusually large pulldown resistors to the -15V supply. The large load resistance maximizes the gains of the emitter-follower output stages and speeds up the rising edges.....(design idea added 3/03)
Quad Astable Mode Operation Free Running Oscillator - Circuit Ideas for Designers Application Notes Advanced Linear Devices, Inc.  (app note added 6/06)
Reflections: Computations & Waveforms - National Semiconductor Application Note  (app note added 2/06)
Resonant Frequency of a Colpitts Oscillator - Electronic Circuit design (added 02/05)
Resonator BFO Circuit - This circuit was used to stop all the BFO drift. The circuit is extremely stable. Turn the receiver off, and then on at any time and temperature, the BFO frequency is exactly the same. (added 02/05)
RF Oscillator uses Current feedback OpAmp - 10/03/02 EDN-Design Ideas: A current-feedback amplifier is a well-known component with many uses. Its basic block diagram shows that its input stage is a voltage follower—in practice, a symmetrical emitter follower (Figure 1). The configuration samples the output current, converts it to voltage across a large impedance,.....(design idea added 1/05)
RF Signal Generator - (electronic design / schematic added 2/05)
Rounding Off' a Square Wave - ASCII format (added 7/03)

 
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