Hi,
I need to make a pulse generator so that whenever it is called, it has to produce one pulse of 150ms. I need to control this pulse generator with a laptop, because I am automating a system of circuits and I need to trigger one specific circuit by sending a 150ms pulse to it. How can I approach this? Any suggestions? I was thinking of using a 555 pulse generating circuit, something like this: http://www.electroschematics.com/5834/pulse-generator-with-555/
But this seems a little bit of overkill. I just need to send only 1 pulse. I am currently writing the code to control connect and integrate my system with some devices using a GPIB-USB adaptor and any recommendation on the pulse generating circuit and way of connecting it to a laptop would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
I need to make a pulse generator so that whenever it is called, it has to produce one pulse of 150ms. I need to control this pulse generator with a laptop, because I am automating a system of circuits and I need to trigger one specific circuit by sending a 150ms pulse to it. How can I approach this? Any suggestions? I was thinking of using a 555 pulse generating circuit, something like this: http://www.electroschematics.com/5834/pulse-generator-with-555/
But this seems a little bit of overkill. I just need to send only 1 pulse. I am currently writing the code to control connect and integrate my system with some devices using a GPIB-USB adaptor and any recommendation on the pulse generating circuit and way of connecting it to a laptop would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks