I want to generate a narrow pulse of very small duration. How can I implement it using PWL function. Or is there any other method for this.
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I have designed a circuit where I want to give a pulse of very short duration using a switch. How can I implement it in spice.
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I am looking for good ideas for implementing a generic way to have a single line (or anonymous delegate) of code execute with a timeout.  TemperamentalClass tc = new TemperamentalClass(); tc.DoSomething();  // normally runs in 30 sec.  Want to error at 1 min   I'm looking for a solution that can elegantly be implemented in many places where my code interacts with temperamental code (that I can't change).  In addition, I would like to have the offending "timed out" code stopped from executing further if possible.
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If you emit a single photon, wait an interval, emit a second photon, wait the same interval, and keep repeating, is the resultant stream of photons describable by the frequency at which you emitted each one? Or does each photon have its own "frequency", independent of the rate of emission? I thought the former description explained the Doppler effect.
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I have built numerous 555 circuits over the years. I recently had to built a Monostable 555 cct. as per this site :    The cct. is used in a motor vehicle. When the remote control is pushed to open the doors, it sends positive 12V to this Monostable cct. to initiate it and a 3 Amp Power Transistor pulses the siren momentarily to indicatse "unlocking" by audible means.   The issue I have is that Rt and Ct used to time the output pulse is not short enough. I replaced these components to the smallest values I could get, but the output is still "too long". Teh siren makes a "chooow" sound instead of "chow". Sounmds too unprofessional or after-market.  Any ideas to get a short pulse (nearly a few micro seconds) out of this old 555 cct. ?
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I currently have an Adafruit Ultimate GPS connected to an Arduino that outputing GPS data (nmea sentences) once per second.  There is also a pin on the GPS outputting 1 PPS signal.    My question is whether the pulse of the PPS suppose to match the time that the GPS data is coming in i.e are they are coming in at the same time?    Also does PPS pulse come in at the beginning of a UTC second or is it random and simply once a second?
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Motivation: I have a grinder that spawns spiders which are then moved to a very small space. When they accumulate in big enough numbers, I pull a lever and let a piston crush them 11 times. Then I can kill them with one hit and harvest experience.     This becomes a problem once there are a lot of spiders - the game starts to lag and it is difficult (if not impossible) to have the precise number of hits.   Question: For some n, how do I create a circuit that generates n impulses before shutting down? Or in this case, how do I make a piston hit exactly 11 times?
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I'm trying to build a simple system to turn a water pump every 24 hours for 10-20 seconds. I have 5V pump. When I connect it to 5V, GND it works but when I connect it to pin 12 (or any other digital pin) and GND it does not work. Here's my sample sketch:  int led = 12;  void setup() {                   Serial.begin(9600);   pinMode(led, OUTPUT);      }  void loop() {   digitalWrite(led, HIGH); }   What am I doing wrong?
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I want to know if there is a simple (and cheap) way to make a momentary button (for which we cannot control the time it holds when pressed!) press to virtually hold for about 1-2 seconds.  More precisely, I want to implement a low power consuming solution for a monostable-"mode" 555 timer. Thus when the button is "hit", the 555 Vcc pin will go HIGH for at least the amount of time required for one pulse to be sent out. After that the circuit will go back to stable 0V, until next hit.  Even more precisely - The pulse is used to move a small servo to a certain, constant, predetermined position.
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I am looking to build a circuit to control five different FET drivers individually. The input signal would be a single shot from a function generator, which should produce five output signals, with the same frequency and phase but the duty cycles need to be individually controllable. Basically, I am trying to replace five function generators (synchronized to the same clock) with one single function generator and a circuit board due to limited resources. The outputs need to have only two levels i.e pulse wave  EDIT: Olin's suggestion (using a MCU) or a FPGA seem to be the best options but any analog alternatives are much appreciated. Thanks :)
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Why there can not be a monochromatic pulse? My physics professor told us that we can't generate a monochromatic light pulse and I was wondering what are the physical limitations causing this.
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I have a long running BASH script that I am running under CYGWIN on Windows.  I would like to limit the script to run for 30 seconds, and automatically terminate if it exceeds this limit. Ideally, I'd like to be able to do this to any command.  For example:  sh-3.2$ limittime -t 30 'myscript.sh'   or   sh-3.2$ limittime -t 30 'grep func *.c'   Under cygwin the ulimit command doesn't seem to work.   I am open to any ideas.
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I'm trying to make a circuit (with no programmable circuits, only logic gates, flip flops and latches) that outputs a short impulsion each time it's input toggles from 0 to 1. Do you have any idea of how to do so?
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In photocell is there currant at threshold frequency $f=f_o$? I mean $I=0$ at $f=f_o$?
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During a mock Cambridge interview, one of the questions was about how small a computer could theoretically be.The way I approached it was in terms of what something must be to be considered a computer.  I eventually made some progress, but I made a point that I am quite doubtful about. I said that one can use the photoelectric effect as a timer.  When you shine light on an atom and promote an electron to a higher energy level, there is a time delay before it returns to ground state (or at least there is a time delay between light being absorbed and light being re-radiated), which ought to be constant. I know this point may not really relate to the interview question.  Nevertheless, is what I said true? Is there a (measurable) time delay between the absorption of a photon and the re-radiation of a photon?
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This is the second mouse dying on me because of a poor switch ! Under most operating systems there is a option to set the max time interval in which two mouse clicks are processed as on double click.  Logically there has to be a way to set a minimum double click time interval!  I surely could replace the broken switch but there are costs for the new switch, time and basic soldering needed for that. Obviously this should be the last possible step to take.  Firstly I want to try to let the computer handle the broken mouse. I am searching a fix for windows and especially for linux (ubuntu) systems.  E: as Matt Eckert mentioned the problem is that the mouse switch is gotten loose and is producing two signals with just one key press. I've never mentioned that I want to set up anything within th mouse. Sorry for the misunderstanding, I thought that this problem occurs very often so that everyone understands the problem with the give information.  Under Windows there is only the option to set the maximum time interval in in which a double click is recognized. I need to set up the minimum time interval. In other word a double click should only be recognized if the time difference between two mouse clicks is at least for example half of a millisecond.
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I have a command block line set up so that it detects for a players death, then gives them weakness for 600 seconds. It applies weakness to soon before they get out of the respawn time. If there is not way to delay a command is there a way to detect a player respawn?
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Basically, I have a big project going on in my campus which we were told to make digital counter. So when the timer counts reach at 10 minutes (by this case, the timer counts is shown by 7-segment display), it will produce alarm sound or buzzer sound, and when it continues and reach to 15 minutes, exactly doing the same by how the timer goes to 10 minutes. Any ideas guys on how to make the circuit? I'm kinda stuck here. (We aren't allowed using an IC NE555, but we are told to use 7-segment display, logic gates IC like IC 7408, any basic IC. And I'm on Digital Electronics course, I'm still learning about basic logic gates, boolean algebra, XOR and XNOR gates, multiplexer and duplexer. My reference book is Digital Electronics, a practical approach with VHDL by William Keiltz)