Timing Circuits

Waveform Shaping Circuit

 The 555 circuit

Selected as one of the “25 Microchips That Shook the World”

IEEE Spectrum (May 2009)
 The 555 circuit

 General purpose IC
 Precision timing
 Pulse generation
 Sequential timing
 Time delay
 Pulse width modulation
 Linear ramp generation
 The 555 circuit

 Astable
 Monostable
 Can sink or source current up to 200mA!
 The 555 circuit R S Qbar

1 0 1
0 1 0
(2/3)V+
0 0
Don’t
care:
previous
state

(1/3)V+

Buffer to sink or
source

Discharge capacitor,
not shown

Qbar high leads to Q14 : ON

 555 Multivibrator Circuits
Monostable Capacitor
Multivibrator voltage

v(t )  V  (1  e T / RC )

2 3 V 
 V  (1  e T / RC )

so
V T  RC ln( 3)  1.1RC

Width of output pulse is a function of

external time constant RC!
 555 Multivibrator Circuits
Astable Multivibtator (Clock or timer circuit)

1 1 1
f   
T TC  TD 0.693( RA  2 RB )C

RA  RB
Duty  Cycle 
RA  2 RB