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Don
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Tue Nov 08, 2005 5:35 pm Post subject:
Driving a Discrete Input Having a 50ohm Impedance |
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Any one know of a good reference design for a driver for an input to
unit with a 50ohm impedance and that's looking for 8 to 11VDC as a
"high" and "-1 to 2VDC for a logic 0? Needs to have a fast (50nsec)
rise time.
I have been pondering just driving a transistor cable of handling about
500mA with the collector ties to the mid-junction of two 50ohm
resistors hooked in series. The high side resistor connected to 20VDC
and the other resistor connected to ground.
Any references or suggestions will be greatly appreciated!
Thanks!
Don
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Jim Thompson
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Tue Nov 08, 2005 5:35 pm Post subject:
Re: Driving a Discrete Input Having a 50ohm Impedance |
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On 8 Nov 2005 06:58:08 -0800, "Don" <emq_33@hotmail.com> wrote:
| Quote: | Any one know of a good reference design for a driver for an input to
unit with a 50ohm impedance and that's looking for 8 to 11VDC as a
"high" and "-1 to 2VDC for a logic 0? Needs to have a fast (50nsec)
rise time.
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What logic family is that, "Wasteful" ?:-)
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Don
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Tue Nov 08, 2005 5:35 pm Post subject:
Re: Driving a Discrete Input Having a 50ohm Impedance |
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It's actaully an input signal to a piece of equipment (1PPS GPS).
Probably more a case of making a robust signal for going around a
vehicle rather than a logic family per se.
Don
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Fred Bloggs
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Tue Nov 08, 2005 5:35 pm Post subject:
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Don wrote:
| Quote: | It's actaully an input signal to a piece of equipment (1PPS GPS).
Probably more a case of making a robust signal for going around a
vehicle rather than a logic family per se.
Don
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You're just full of buzzwordese today and that's a "per se." You're
reading the specs wrong- there are no such drive requirements. Just
because they have a BNC or some other coaxial input jack does not mean
it's 50 ohms. |
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Tue Nov 08, 2005 5:35 pm Post subject:
Re: Driving a Discrete Input Having a 50ohm Impedance |
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Don wrote:
| Quote: | It's actaully an input signal to a piece of equipment (1PPS GPS).
Probably more a case of making a robust signal for going around a
vehicle rather than a logic family per se.
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It's going to take over a watt to drive it with the logic level high
(v^2 / r), and the frequencies are RF (7 mhz equivelent or so) but on
the bright side it doesn't need to be linear.
I'd probably lean towards a half bridge design with two active
devices... mosfet's might be tempting, basically just make a CMOS
output on steroids? |
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Tue Nov 08, 2005 5:35 pm Post subject:
Re: Driving a Discrete Input Having a 50ohm Impedance |
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Fred Bloggs wrote:
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You're just full of buzzwordese today and that's a "per se." You're
reading the specs wrong- there are no such drive requirements. Just
because they have a BNC or some other coaxial input jack does not mean
it's 50 ohms.
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If it's a high speed signal, then it *does* mean it's 50 ohms if the
instrument is well designed... you want to match the characteristic
impedance of the transmission line.
Hmm, question, how can scope inputs be high impedance and not cause
reflections on the probe coax? It would seem like one end of the coax
or the other would need 50 ohms of fairly resistive termination to
ground, no? |
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Tue Nov 08, 2005 5:35 pm Post subject:
Re: Driving a Discrete Input Having a 50ohm Impedance |
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well, not necessarily 50 ohms, could be 75 or 93 or whatever, but a lot
less than a megaohm |
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Don
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Wed Nov 09, 2005 12:01 am Post subject:
Re: Driving a Discrete Input Having a 50ohm Impedance |
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| Quote: | From the spec for the piece of equipment, here is the description of
the input: |
INPUT IMPEDANCE: 50 OHMS +/-5%
LOGIC 1: 8 to 11 VDC
LOGIC 0: -1 to 2 VDC
RISE TIME: < 50nsec
FALL TIME: < 1usec
I guess I don't understand what you mean about "buzzwordese". If you
know and work with the Global Positioning System (GPS), you probably
know what 1PPS means (1 pulse per second - a pretty standard signal in
GPS equipment).
For grins, I measured the resistance from the signal pin to ground, and
guess what? 50 ohms. (Yeah, I know there is other stuff in there, but
it does support the spec.) So. what I described is accurate and I did
not mis-read anything. |
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Wed Nov 09, 2005 1:35 am Post subject:
Re: Driving a Discrete Input Having a 50ohm Impedance |
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Jon wrote:
| Quote: | I would suggest a discrete complementary (NMOS-PMOS) driver with a 50 Ohm
back termination resistor. This way, the output impedance would be
approximately 50 Ohms in both states.
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What do you mean by a 'back termination resistor'?
A resistor between the switched node and ground?
If so this does not set the output impedance, or even the termination
impedance except when neither FET if on. Mostly what it does is waste
power.
A resistor in series between the switched node and the driven cable?
This would set the output (source) impedance. However, it also
functions as a voltage divider with the cable (initially) or load
impedance (long term), meaning he'll need to switch 20 volts on the
PMOS to make 10v show up across the receiver's 50 ohm impedance.
Unless you really need the 'softness' of a 50 ohm source impedance, or
the receiver is high impedance, this just makes life complicated for
little benefit.
Given the input specifications and measurement he posted, I wouldn't
use a resistor on the order of 50 ohms at all. I guess you could
consider one an order of magnitude smaller in series or an order of
magnitude larger in shunt, but not closer. And I might use a fuse or
some more sophisticated overload protection device... |
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Jon
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Wed Nov 09, 2005 1:35 am Post subject:
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Don,
If I understand your proposed circuit correctly, you are proposing
shorting the "low" side resistor to ground in the "0" state. If so,
the output impedance in the "1" state would be 25 Ohms, and in the "0"
state, the output impedance would be "0" Ohms (neglecting Ron). I
would suggest a discrete complementary (NMOS-PMOS) driver with a 50 Ohm
back termination resistor. This way, the output impedance would be
approximately 50 Ohms in both states. It would be a power waster, as
Jim implies, but it should work. In the "1" state, the resistor would
dissipate (20-10)^2/50 = 2 Watts. In the "0" state, the resistor
dissipation would be 0.
Regards,
Jon |
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Norm Dresner
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Wed Nov 09, 2005 1:35 am Post subject:
Re: Driving a Discrete Input Having a 50ohm Impedance |
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"Don" <emq_33@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:1131463851.556995.93240@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
| Quote: | It's actaully an input signal to a piece of equipment (1PPS GPS).
Probably more a case of making a robust signal for going around a
vehicle rather than a logic family per se.
Don
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I had to do one recently for a GPS emulator that needed 0 and 4.5v and wound
up using a discrete transistor driver.
Norm |
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Roger
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Wed Nov 09, 2005 9:35 am Post subject:
Re: Driving a Discrete Input Having a 50ohm Impedance |
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Don wrote:
| Quote: | From the spec for the piece of equipment, here is the description of
the input:
INPUT IMPEDANCE: 50 OHMS +/-5%
LOGIC 1: 8 to 11 VDC
LOGIC 0: -1 to 2 VDC
RISE TIME: < 50nsec
FALL TIME: < 1usec
I guess I don't understand what you mean about "buzzwordese". If you
know and work with the Global Positioning System (GPS), you probably
know what 1PPS means (1 pulse per second - a pretty standard signal in
GPS equipment).
For grins, I measured the resistance from the signal pin to ground, and
guess what? 50 ohms. (Yeah, I know there is other stuff in there, but
it does support the spec.) So. what I described is accurate and I did
not mis-read anything.
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Hi Don.
Your load looks like a 50 ohms resistor to ground. The 50 ohm coax has
the property of "transporting" that 50 ohms to ground right into your
driver circuit. So your job is to pull a 50 ohm resistor up to say 9
or 10 volts. You don't have to pull it down - the 50 ohm resistor can
do that all by itself. In other words, you need a switch.
If you have a 10 V or 12 V or similar power rail, you can pull the 50
ohm load up to it with a switch - a transistor which turns on. In your
circuit you have a logic output of some kind - say a 0 to 5 V logic
level. You need something like this :
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In fact, the spec you quote looks tailored to such a driver - fast on,
not so fast off. Resistor and transistor values are going to depend
upon your logic voltage and power supply voltage.
R2 can drop any unwanted voltage if your supply voltage is too high.
R1, R2 and R3 can be chosen to stop the PNP saturating, which speeds
up turn off. This kind of circuit can easily meet your spec.
Roger Lascelles |
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Fred Bloggs
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Wed Nov 09, 2005 4:43 pm Post subject:
Re: Driving a Discrete Input Having a 50ohm Impedance |
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| Quote: | Hmm, question, how can scope inputs be high impedance and not cause
reflections on the probe coax? It would seem like one end of the coax
or the other would need 50 ohms of fairly resistive termination to
ground, no?
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No- the high impedance probe cable is lossy and ~350 ohm eliminates
reflections. |
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Fred Bloggs
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Wed Nov 09, 2005 4:52 pm Post subject:
Re: Driving a Discrete Input Having a 50ohm Impedance |
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| Quote: | From the spec for the piece of equipment, here is the description of
the input:
INPUT IMPEDANCE: 50 OHMS +/-5%
LOGIC 1: 8 to 11 VDC
LOGIC 0: -1 to 2 VDC
RISE TIME: < 50nsec
FALL TIME: < 1usec
I guess I don't understand what you mean about "buzzwordese". If you
know and work with the Global Positioning System (GPS), you probably
know what 1PPS means (1 pulse per second - a pretty standard signal in
GPS equipment).
For grins, I measured the resistance from the signal pin to ground, and
guess what? 50 ohms. (Yeah, I know there is other stuff in there, but
it does support the spec.) So. what I described is accurate and I did
not mis-read anything.
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Okay- well if it was ME doing this I would find the minimum acceptable
pulsewidth worst case- not necessarily 50% on the 1PPS, it is a trigger
after all, and then go with cheap parallel logic buffer drive into pulse
transformer and onto the line of that pulsewidth. But if you want to
play dumb, then you can go with something like this or similar, use 50
ohm series termination:
http://focus.ti.com/docs/prod/folders/print/buf634.html |
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Wed Nov 09, 2005 5:35 pm Post subject:
Re: Driving a Discrete Input Having a 50ohm Impedance |
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Jon wrote:
| Quote: | A back termination resistor is just a resistor in series with the
source signal. It is used to provide impedance matching with the
characteristic impedance of a cable. This minimizes reflections and
ringing.
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Yes, but it wastes half the power and is not the only way to solve the
problem.
If you match the line impedance at the receiving end, source
termination is unecessary as there won't be a return wavefront arriving
at the source end to reflect off of a lower source impedance.
Terminate one end, and you are limited to at most a single-round-trip
reflection, which may not even be in a direction of concern.
| Quote: | By the way, it is very common in video systems (which commonly use 75
Ohm cable) to use video drivers with a voltage gain of 2. This
compensates for the gain of 1/2 that results from the 75 Ohm back
termination resistor that is commonly used.
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If the signalling level is only a volt or two, this is easy to do, and
lets you kill off rather than send back any reflections returning from
bad cables or connectors or mismatched loads (or multiple 75 ohm
loads), not to mention providing short circuit protection. But at 10
volts desired across the load, it's a substantial penalty to up the
driver to 20 v - now you have to handle 4 watts instead of 2, and have
a more limited choice of parts capble of that voltage range, especially
if you are looking for a PMOS device.
Also, even with just that load resistor I'd look at the duty cycle
requirements - would be nice if you could use just a brief 10v pulse
and then return it low for the rest of the second, that could get the
average power much more reasonable. |
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