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Subject: Re: Output bounce, can this be fixed?
Poster: john jardine
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 15:27:43 -0000
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"Anthony Fremont" wrote in message news:13076uosaghvv05@news.supernews.com...
>
> My rise times were about half that according to the scope. Once I slowed
> them down a bit, they didn't overshoot like that. You tried feeding a DC
> coupled ~10MHz sine wave into it?
>
> > Tried square, triangle and mid biased small sines. Always the same
> > clean suare out.
> > What you show (with it's 40MHz resonance) looks distinctly like a gate
> > feeding a few feet of normal coax connected directly to a scope.
> > Sure that probe's working?.
>
> I tried an older probe that I've had for a long time and got pretty much the
> same thing, massive ringing and overshoot. I put it on my old Hitachi
> V650-F analog scope and viewed the same results. I had trouble with the
> chip wanting to break into oscillation, so I guess I have just the right
> combination of circuit capactance/inductance/frequency to create resonance
> problems. When I have some time to tinker around, I will do some testing
> using a 10MHz crystal oscillator and a 74HC14 on a another breadboard and
> see if I see the same thing. BTW, I tied all unused inputs to Vss or Vdd.
>

The gate works OK with a DC coupled 10Mc sine input. Even works down to a 1Vpp sine input but for this small a signal the sine needs to be sitting about an accurate midrail of 2.5V. (Can even get down to 0.8Vpp input if using a square wave!.) Other than what most non users casually suspect, those protoboard things are NOT a problem. The things are good to at least 50Mc. To clear another point, I also added 2 foot of extra wire to the scope probe ground lead and only got 1/2V overshoot (20Mc ring) , so that's not the problem either. My chip has a 10uF 'lytic across it's supply pins so 'decoupling' is not as problematic as many people would like to believe. Then directly connected a 1mtr 75ohm coax test lead to the gate and still only saw about 0.8V overshoots (15Mc ring).

As you note, it's the chip-on-the-edge-of-oscillation that's the root cause of the problem. The key probably sits with the reason for that whopping great 12Vpp output.

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