Reference:www.abcofelectronics.com/schmitt_trigger.htm

 

hi,

I Googled: What is a schmitt trigger

http://www.electronics-radio.com/art...tt-trigger.php

This and many more.

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It "fires" so it cannot be "teased" by a slow moving waveform, kind of like a snap-action wall switch.
Analysis of such a circuit is kind of tricky.

 

Nah! it's a piece of cake. Input threshold depends on output voltage. What could be more straightforward. Now the strange attractor, there is a problem with some complexity, How about a Wiener process which is everywhere continuous, but nowhere differentiable?

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Nah, some have said The Weenie Process, as we fondly refer to it here in Maryland, is "almost surely" continuous.

And I think the ancient Chinese curse "May you live in interesting times" was the precursor to modern day chaos theory.

 

what the heck!

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A schmitt trigger is a device or circuit that is used for switching with built in hysteresis. What Papabravo explained is accurate (at least the first half seeing I haven't a clue what he was saying in the 2nd). Take a comparator designed as a relaxation oscillator (astable) with a feedback resistor to the reference pin, and viola, you have a reference that fluctuates to two different states depending on whether the output is high or low.
You may find schmitt triggers as part of a processor watchdog circuit to reset the system in the absense of an activity pulse.

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OK, literally I was saying that the analysis of stochastic differential equations and chaotic systems are things I consider tricky. Schmidt Triggers are deterministic and in my estimation -- not tricky at all.

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Ah. Now wasn't that easier to say?

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But he already said that.


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Perhaps I should have used a smiley face to indicate the humor.

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