AW: Osc reset time
Haible Juergen
Juergen.Haible at nbgm.siemens.de
Wed Dec 16 16:40:44 CET 1998
>If you have a dual two-way analogue switch, with very low on
resistance, you
>could connect the capacitor so that you can reverse its polarity in
the
>circuit - ie a comparator detects the peak level and toggles the
switches so
>that the connections from the cap to the ref voltage and the
current source
>are swapped. At the next peak, they are swapped back. This should
give near
>instant reset times.
>I would expect this has been done before if it's workable.
>Is this likely to have any advantage over discharging the cap ?
>Disadvantages ?
That's brilliant !
And now, connect two high impedance buffers and a differential
amplifier directly to the capacitor, and you have a triangle wave
without extra conversion as well.
I haven't checked for disadvantages yet, but it looks very promising !
JH.
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