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- From: mjohnson@netcom.Netcom.COM (Mark Johnson)
- Subject: Re: Ultra high-speed analog voltage comparator
- Message-ID: <MJOHNSON.92Sep3072032@netcom.Netcom.COM>
- Date: Thu, 03 Sep 92 15:20:32 GMT
- Organization: Netcom Online Communications Service
- In-Reply-To: mhbrekke@iastate.edu's message of Thu, 3 Sep 1992 03:08:12 GMT
- References: <1992Sep3.030812.15165@news.iastate.edu>
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- In article <1992Sep3.030812.15165@news.iastate.edu> mhbrekke@iastate.edu (Monty H. Brekke) writes:
- I am looking for a very fast (< 1ns)
- voltage comparator. I don't care what
- technology the thing is implemented in...
- In addition to the high speed, I need an
- input voltage range of +/- 5V.
-
- The bugbear in your requirements is the input voltage
- range; not many GHz grade IC technologies can handle
- higher than 4-6 volts. And that's across the supplies
- (V+ minus V-): input commonmode range is smaller.
-
- How about a 1:10 attenuator (compensated of course)
- followed by an ECL line receiver in the SPECL
- (Sony) or ECLiPS (Motorola) families?
-
- Also there is a very good chance that the properties
- of your input signals will permit true AC coupling.
- In part this is because your input signals are required
- to have FAST EDGES (otherwise it is, in a practical sense,
- foolhardy to insist upon very short propagation delay;
- excess delay in the comparator will be indistinguishable
- from amplitude error in the input signals).
-
- MJ
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