The pulse generator itself is the single 2N3904 on the right. When you are a Hackaday writer with some oscilloscope bandwidths to measure, you need a picosecond avalanche pulse generator, and you ...

Read more Test Ideas and Design Ideas here. As ICs increase in complexity and decrease in size, their pin counts drop or, at best, remain constant. The result: a need for pin-saving measures like ...

This post demonstrates a basic design idea for making your own short pulse generator using components which are inexpensive and readily available. You will find many interesting and useful ...

The pulse generator is instead built around an STM8 microcontroller; an unusual choice in this era, to be sure.