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Detecting an 80-90us Pulse from a 5V Serial Signal

07/17/2007 9:31 AM

I am trying to detect an 80-90us pulse from a 5v serial signal that also contains faster pulses, its a serial stream of data with the 80-90us pulse being the start of a data block.

I realise this can be done with a Microchip but using such an option gives me further problems later.

Has anyone any ideas or a nice simlpe way to do it.

Basically I want to detect the start which is the signal going low for 80-90us then clock in the serial data using a fixed clock , just this dam start pulse if giving me a huge headache.

Hope you can help

Andy

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Re: Detecting an 80-90us Pulse from a 5V Serial Signal

07/17/2007 10:47 AM

Let your serial data stream trigger a resettable timer. Set the time constant for something < 80uS and > than your normal data width. The shorter pulses will reset the timer before it can time out. The long pulse will allow the timer to time out. When the output of the timer changes state, you have your start pulse.

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Re: Detecting an 80-90us Pulse from a 5V Serial Signal

07/17/2007 11:16 AM

Thank you, this is exactly how I have the theory too, but how to do it :).

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