Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #02112
To: "'Ian Bernstein'" ian@beam-online.com
From: Charles Monica CMonica@drte.com
Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1999 09:38:33 -0400
Subject: [alt-beam] Linked BiCores; How Does The Slave Cycle?
Ian (All);
Perhaps you can shed some light on how the slave BiCore works?
This is my understanding (all caps being equal)...
1. The masters floating resistor governs the period of both bicores.
2. The linking resistors from the master to the slave governs how fast the
slave 'follows' the master (creates a phase shift).
Q: I know the phase shift in step two is based on the RC of the slave bicore
and the linking resistors to the master. But I can't figure out how the
slave RC's charge/discharge in this circuit? It seems to me that both ends
of the RC's are at the same potential at the same time (ie +V, or Gnd)? Ex.
One output of master is high and fed into the slave bicore input, it's
inverted to low (the same as the other master output), now both ends of the
RC are low, and both ends of the other slave RC are at high. What am I
missing? Does the RC charge/discharge of the slave occur at the time the
masters output changes state?
Any clarification of the slaves RC charge/discharge behavior would be
appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
Charlie.
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