Title :
Low-voltage relaxation oscillator
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electron. & Electr. Eng., Univ. Coll. Dublin, Ireland
fDate :
7/20/2000 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
A relaxation oscillator employing an S-shaped current-controlled nonlinear resistor composed of two bipolar transistors and a single resistor is proposed. The oscillator produces a unipolar sawtooth waveform and is suitable for low-voltage applications
Keywords :
relaxation oscillators; waveform generators; LV relaxation oscillator; S-shaped current-controlled nonlinear resistor; bipolar transistors; low-voltage applications; unipolar sawtooth waveform;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el:20000958
