23 Sep
2010
23 Sep
'10
12:06 p.m.
On 9/23/10 3:02 PM, Ethan Dicks wrote:
Yep. I should've qualified my statement above to include the term
"modern".
They're just not much used in computers or "computery" things. (like
everything you mentioned above)
Lately, I'm sure that's true, but IIRC seeing them in the late 1970s
and early 1980s as timed one-shots on reset circuits on
microprocessors. I only ever used them for audio noisemakers and LED
blinkers until the
past year or two when I started dabbling in PWM. I read all I can
find about them and learn something every time I do - the on-chip
design may be simple, but the the applications are myriad and complex.
It really is an amazing circuit.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL