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Article #21030Re: Square to Sawtooth
From: Don Tillman
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 1989 19:30
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 1989 19:30
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From: rohlf@unc.cs.unc.edu (John Rohlf) Date: 28 Mar 89 23:08:54 GMT Given an externally generated square wave of varying frequency(audio range) and varying amplitude, what is the best/ easiest way of converting it to a sawtooth of the same frequency and amplitude? Have a ramp preset to the square wave's high voltage level at the square wave's rising transition. Slew the ramp down from that point. Electrically adjust the slew rate so that the ramp crosses zero at the square wave's falling transistion. This could track correctly after a cycle or two. The ideas I threw out both involved generating a voltage proportional to the square wave's frequency first: either use that voltage to adjust the ramping rate from the square wave's high voltage or drive a voltage controlled integrator. Neither way is real accurate.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!decwrl!fernwood!edsel!till From: till@lucid.com (Don Tillman) Newsgroups: sci.electronics Subject: Re: Square to Sawtooth Message-ID: <1942@edsel> Date: 29 Mar 89 19:30:11 GMT References: <7476@thorin.cs.unc.edu> Organization: Lucid, Inc. Menlo Park, CA Lines: 19