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Posted: Tue May 13, 2008 1:32 am
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I want to make a classroom demonstration showing a flipflop in a meta-
stable state. You know, power supply, perfboard, oscilloscope. I'd
like to construct a circuit using a small number of chips, that uses
feedback control to _guarantee_ that the flipflop is operated in a
meta-stable state. My only idea so far is to build a delay locked
loop that schmoo's the relative position of clock and data edges, such
that the long term average output (after RC filter) is 50% of supply.
But this requires a voltage controlled delay line, which isn't really
a catalog part. Does anyone have a better idea of how to demonstrate
meta-stability on a breadboard?

Thanks,
Alice Parker alice at (no spam) nancy1234.com
 
Martin Thompson...
Posted: Wed May 14, 2008 3:28 pm
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alice at (no spam) nancy1234.com writes:

Quote:
I want to make a classroom demonstration showing a flipflop in a meta-
stable state. You know, power supply, perfboard, oscilloscope. I'd
like to construct a circuit using a small number of chips, that uses
feedback control to _guarantee_ that the flipflop is operated in a
meta-stable state. My only idea so far is to build a delay locked
loop that schmoo's the relative position of clock and data edges, such
that the long term average output (after RC filter) is 50% of supply.
But this requires a voltage controlled delay line, which isn't really
a catalog part. Does anyone have a better idea of how to demonstrate
meta-stability on a breadboard?


Does this article help any?
http://www.sigcon.com/Pubs/news/4_4.htm

Cheers,
Martin

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