high frequency sawtooth oscillator

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DominusDRR

Joined May 25, 2009
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Is there a diagram of a high frequency sawtooth oscillator? 100MHz​

I'm going to use HFA1109 Amp Op.​

Fabián​
 

bertus

Joined Apr 5, 2008
22,270
Hello,

Why do you need 100 Mhz?
What is the maximum frequency you use for the other comparing part?

Greetings,
Bertus
 

Wendy

Joined Mar 24, 2008
23,415
Thing is, you're frequency response is going to be way past 500Mhz. That is the 5X harmonic. For a decent waveform you'll need really high frequency response.

At that frequency making a square wave is even harder, for the same exact reason. Square waves are usually used to generate triangle waves, but I think we can say this won't be practical at this frequency. The logic family ECL operates in this region, and gets around it by deliberately rounding the edges. A continuous logic chain in ECL resembles a sine wave more than a square wave.
 

millwood

Joined Dec 31, 1969
0
Hello,

Most Direct Digital Synthesysers will give a square wave or sinus as output.
Take a look at this DDS from this german hamradio site:
http://www.box73.de/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=112_113&products_id=1869
There you will also find a dataheet.

Greetings,
Bertus
that's an interesting design.

1) the mcu takes usb signal and sends out i2c. I would love to see their source code, :) for that.

2) the si570 is quite amazing. programmable oscillator. conceiveably, you can just take a mcu to control that with up/down buttons but controlling it with a pc through usb must be fun.
 

millwood

Joined Dec 31, 1969
0
the way they do tempco compensation is very smart.

it looks like a well thought-out and well designed package.
 
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