Wasps, DCOs, OSCs and Bill Clintons pants?

[jorgen.bergfors at idg.se]

>>I remember Elektor back in the good old days (ca 1979) had a very 
clever 
>>circuit that converted a square wave to a sawtooth. 

>....If you multiply the amplitude of the saw by the reciprocal of the 
>peak 
>height of the saw, then you have it.. so you could sample the peak 
>voltage
>(you have the trigger from the square wave) and then use say an AD633
>as a divider.....
>perhaps, under some circumstances, it would be worth doing!
>But, it wont work on the first cycle......

>paul perry melb aust

Well, the Elektor circuit was a fairly simple one. If my memory serves me 
right, it had two plain vanilla transistors and a bunch of passive components. 
Definitely no special ICs!

/Jorgen