Sine Wave to Square Wave Converter

[Brynn]

Any Techy Freddies out there that know how to build a Sine-Square Wave converter.

It must work within frequencies of 0.1 Hz to 10 MHz.

Any help at all would be greatly appreciated.


and yes i have tried google, but its not been very helpful.

Thanks in advance

 

[anattic]

That's a difficult question without knowing what the input signal levels are, and what mark-space ratio you need. However the simplest way to square a sine wave is with a schmitt triggered buffer/inverter. You can buy discrete devices to do the job, or go analogue if you prefer.

Some links:

http://www.play-hookey.com/digital/experiments/rtl_schmitt.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schmitt_trigger

If you want a bit more control over the problem, you could use a bit from an A-D converter (biasing the input to get the right spacing).

Links:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analog_to_digital_converter
http://www.maxim-ic.com (makers of fine ADC devices)

 

[Brynn]

Input signal levels are peak to peak from 0.1v to 10v, and we asssume the input impedance is low.

 

[~Yuckfou~]

This is wayyyyy to geeky, *runs*