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The Versatile 555
The Versatile 555
popular and versatile ICB todax the pinout is identical. Lower power dissipation
but it has some drawbacks that Harris Semiconductor's ver- Lower current spikes in cut-
were overcome by a CMOS ver- sion of the 7555, for example, is put transitions
sion. For example, the 555 will designated the ICM7555. In $9 Higher switcl~ing frer;l_zene;i
not operate from voltages less common with all other 7555's, it performance
than about 5 volts. Moreover, it + +
will run fro= a 2- to 18-volt These improvements must be
typically draws 10 milliamperes DC supply Notice that the re- balanced against the higher
of quiescent current when run sistors in its internal voltage di- cost of the 7555. The 1 5 5 5
from a 95-volt supply. T h i s ~iiderare 50 K rather than the should be specified only if:
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rather large c u r r e n t d r a i n
makes it unsatisfactory for
most battery-powered circuits.
5K of the 555. Other sources of
the 7555 are Maxim (ICPA7555)
and Sanyo (LC7555).
@ It is to be used in a batter-?-
powered circ~ritw l ~ e r epower
economy is critical
3 In addition to those short- Supply current to the 7555 is @ Available power is 5 volfs or
comings, the 555 produces a typically only 60 microamperes ' less [too low for the 555:
massive 400-milliampere cur- when run from an 18-volt sup- s it is to be in digital circuity{
$ rent spike from the supply as its ply. In addition, typical TRIGGER. -whose signal output could be
g
.- output is switched from one THRESHOLD, and RESET currents degraded by noise.
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state to the other. A spike, last- are 20 picoarnps, orders of mag- The 7556 is the d u d CMOS
.t; ing only a fraction of a microse- nitude lower than those of the counterpart ~ ithe ' bipolar 556.
a, '
5 cond, can cause lost bits in bipolar 555, Those low currents The '7555 car? directly repiace
digital circuits near the 555 or permit the use of higher imped- any 555 in ail the circl~itspre-
6s powered from the same supply. ance timing elements for longer sented in this series. a-E