Generating two independent pulse triggers separated by a certain time delay can be handy in half-bridge drivers and thyristor-commutated lamp flashers. Time delay is set to avoid overlapping of the power switches' ON states or to minimize the stress on the thyristor's gate. A simple implementation is shown in Figure 1.

Augmenting an earlier published design,¹ the circuit for CMP1 is a free-running multivibrator whose period is found by T = 1.39R1C. Voltage across C (V_C) alternately charges and discharges between V_CC/3 and 2V_CC/3. Whenever V_C exceeds R3V_CC/(R2 + R3), CMP2's output (Q1) goes low while CMP3's output (Q2) is high. Similarly, whenever V_C falls below R4V_CC/(R4 + R5), Q2 goes low while Q1 is high. Then when V_C is found between these two trip points, both Q1 and Q2 are low.

Figure 2 shows the circuit's timing signals. Letting k = R3/(R2 + R3) and m = R4/(R4 + R5), where 2/3 > k > m >1 /3, it can be shown by using the RC charge-discharge equations² that the pulse widths and time delays are:

t_W1 = R1C_LN[2(1 − k)/k]
t_D1 = R1C_LN(k/m)
t_W2 = R1C_LN[2m/(1 − m)]
t_D2 = R1C_LN[(1 − m)/(1 − k)]
T = t_W1 + t_D1 + t_W2 + t_D2

You will observe that V_CC, which in this case could be anywhere between 2 and 28 V, doesn't affect the timing characteristics. The three 1-kΩ resistors are for pull-ups.

References:

1. Edang, Arthur E., "Independently Vary A Multivibrator's Duty Cycle and Frequency," electronic design, Oct. 28, 2002, p. 74.
2. Franco, Sergio, Design with Operational Amplifiers and Analog Integrated Circuits 3e. McGraw-Hill, 2002, p. 450.

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