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CIRCUIT COMPONENTS · Digital ICs: families of digital ICs; gates; programmable logic devices

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What is the function of hysteresis in a comparator?

  1. ATo prevent input noise from causing unstable output signals
  2. BTo allow the comparator to be used with AC input signals
  3. CTo cause the output to continually change states
  4. DTo increase the sensitivity
Why A comparator with no hysteresis switches the instant the input crosses a single threshold, so a noisy signal hovering near that point makes the output chatter back and forth. Hysteresis adds a small amount of positive feedback so that the threshold moves after each transition: once the output goes high, the input must fall to a lower level before it switches back. Those two separate trip points mean noise smaller than the hysteresis gap cannot flip the output, giving one clean transition.
Watch out The claim about increased sensitivity is backwards. Hysteresis deliberately makes the comparator less sensitive near the switching point, which is exactly what buys the noise immunity.
Hysteresis = two thresholds with a dead zone between them, so noise can't make the output chatter.
HamSandwich explanation, first draft. The question and answers are the NCVEC text.
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The rest of E6C

  1. E6C01 What is the function of hysteresis in a comparator?
  2. E6C02 What happens when the level of a comparator's input signal crosses the threshold voltage?
  3. E6C03 What is tri-state logic?
  4. E6C04 Which of the following is an advantage of BiCMOS logic?
  5. E6C05 Which of the following digital logic families has the lowest power consumption?
  6. E6C06 Why do CMOS digital integrated circuits have high immunity to noise on the input signal or power supply?
  7. E6C07 What best describes a pull-up or pull-down resistor?
  8. E6C08 In Figure E6-3, which is the schematic symbol for a NAND gate?
  9. E6C09 What is used to design the configuration of a field-programmable gate array (FPGA)?
  10. E6C10 In Figure E6-3, which is the schematic symbol for a NOR gate?
  11. E6C11 In Figure E6-3, which is the schematic symbol for the NOT operation (inversion)?
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