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Astables

An Astable system continually oscillates between two states. Such systems have outputs but no inputs. The oscillation is caused by feedback from the output to the input via a CR network, which causes a time delay.

Duty Cycle: This is the percentage of the periodic time the waveform is high.

Astables
 
555 Timer
Duty cycle = (t1/T) x 100
 
 
 

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