On Thursday, June 20, 2019 at 2:38:12 AM UTC-7, Winfield Hill wrote:
> Standard pulses: tr 8us, td 20us to 50% down.
> What's your favorite circuit for making device
> test pulses, from a square wave I suppose.
A Moog synthesizer's solution to the pulse problem is (basically) a three-transistor
multiplier. You capacitor-load it and the rise and fall times depend on the current
programmed into the emitter. Set the multiplier input positive for rise, negative for fall,
and program the current differently in the two phases...
Another is the gas-filled tube; conductance rises quickly when it avalanches, drops
slowly as the gas cools. It'd be a hard problem to match risetime/falltime to
a model, though, because there's pressure/geometry/quench-gas variables to
consider. Still, if you need to make a CERN deector that's the size of a
three-story building, fill gas is the economic solution at that scale. Georges
Charpak earned his Nobel prize doing that.