[time-nuts] Harmonics suppression in ring oscillators

Daniel Mendes dmendesf at gmail.com
Fri Mar 20 22:08:28 EDT 2015



On 20/03/2015 04:01, Hal Murray wrote:
> It would be fun to make a ring with no inverters, inject a pulse, and 
> watch to see how long it lasts. I'll bet there is matastability type 
> math that depends on the width of the pulse. If you get the width 
> exactly right it will last a long time. Too long and it settles to all 
> 1s. Too short and it settles to all 0s. 

You mean in a coaxial cable in a loop? It would be very fun... more 
points if you use a directional coupler to put the pulse in the loop. 
Anyhow I doubt it would settle to 1 :)

Daniel



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