Re: SSTC-Starting Out

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Original poster: "Daniel Barrett by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <dbarrett1-at-austin.rr-dot-com>

    Howdy!
    Take a look at the 74HC4538. This chip is a nice, easy to use one-shot
that does just about everything the '555 doesn't. Its great for this sort of
thing.

Datasheet:

http://www-s.ti-dot-com/sc/ds/cd74hc4538.pdf


db

> Next, I need to make the pulse width controller.  Do any of you have
> schematics or ideas regarding single shot pulsers?  I need to generate a
> pulse that is SHORTER than the incoming trigger pulse, that is variable
> from 0.5 uS to 20 uS in width.  It can be either rising or falling edge
> triggered.