peak detector design
peak detector design
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Hi, I am building a peak detector and voltage comparator for my returning signal of the ultrasonic transducer.
Below are the circuit diagram of peak detector and voltage comparator:


And below are the screenshot of oscilloscope after peak detector and voltage comparator:
https://res.cloudinary.com/engineering-com/image/upload/v1487646346/tips/pic_62_2_ja67vl.bmp
https://res.cloudinary.com/engineering-com/image/upload/v1487646378/tips/pic_62_1_qltlhp.bmp
As you can see, it kind of works, it detect the peak at the very beginning, however, what I am interested is the returning signal after the first pulse (the signal that appears in the middle of the screen), and my peak detector is not able to detect it.
Any idea about how to do it?
Thank you.
Below are the circuit diagram of peak detector and voltage comparator:


And below are the screenshot of oscilloscope after peak detector and voltage comparator:
https://res.cloudinary.com/engineering-com/image/upload/v1487646346/tips/pic_62_2_ja67vl.bmp
https://res.cloudinary.com/engineering-com/image/upload/v1487646378/tips/pic_62_1_qltlhp.bmp
As you can see, it kind of works, it detect the peak at the very beginning, however, what I am interested is the returning signal after the first pulse (the signal that appears in the middle of the screen), and my peak detector is not able to detect it.
Any idea about how to do it?
Thank you.





RE: peak detector design
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RE: peak detector design
the capacitor-resistor combination will establish the time constant 𝜏, which should be kept to a value above the period of the main component (carrier, 5MHz), but much lower than the modulating signal (in this case dictated by the frequency of repetition 7.8kHz).
T1 = 1/5000000 = 0.2µs
T2 = 1/7800 = 128µs
𝜏 = R*C = 100p*220k = 22µs
∴ T1 < 𝜏 < T2
RE: peak detector design
TTFN (ta ta for now)
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RE: peak detector design
may be a N-MOS to short the net Output_to5th to GND, during your transmit pulse and 1us or so after that pulse