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Pulse Circuits - Miller Sweep Generator

The Miller sweep generator circuit produces a sweep waveform using a transistor timing circuit. It consists of three amplifier stages - an emitter follower, amplifier, and another emitter follower - with a timing capacitor between the base of the first transistor and emitter of the third. When a trigger pulse turns off the switching transistor, the capacitor charges through a resistor to provide a linear sweep output. Miller sweep circuits are commonly used as horizontal deflection circuits and sawtooth generators.

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Pulse Circuits - Miller Sweep Generator

The Miller sweep generator circuit produces a sweep waveform using a transistor timing circuit. It consists of three amplifier stages - an emitter follower, amplifier, and another emitter follower - with a timing capacitor between the base of the first transistor and emitter of the third. When a trigger pulse turns off the switching transistor, the capacitor charges through a resistor to provide a linear sweep output. Miller sweep circuits are commonly used as horizontal deflection circuits and sawtooth generators.

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Pulse Circuits - Miller Sweep Generator

The transistor Miller time base generator circuit is the popular Miller integrator circuit that produces a
sweep waveform. This is mostly used in horizontal deflection circuits.
Let us try to understand the construction and working of a Miller time base generator circuit.

Construction of Miller Sweep Generator


The Miller time base generator circuit consists of a switch and a timing circuit in the initial stage,
whose input is taken from the Schmitt gate generator circuit. The amplifier section is the following one
which has three stages, first being an emitter follower, second an amplifier and the third one is also
an emitter follower.
An emitter follower circuit usually acts as a Buffer amplifier. It has a low output impedance and a
high input impedance. The low output impedance lets the circuit drive a heavy load. The high input
impedance keeps the circuit from not loading its previous circuit. The last emitter follower section will
not load the previous amplifier section. Because of this, the amplifier gain will be high.
The capacitor C placed between the base of Q1 and the emitter of Q3 is the timing capacitor. The
values of R and C and the variation in the voltage level of VBB changes the sweep speed. The figure
below shows the circuit of a Miller time base generator.

Operation of Miller Sweep Generator


When the output of Schmitt trigger generator is a negative pulse, the transistor Q4 turns ON and the
emitter current flows through R1. The emitter is at negative potential and the same is applied at the
cathode of the diode D, which makes it forward biased. As the capacitor C is bypassed here, it is not
charged.
The application of a trigger pulse, makes the Schmitt gate output high, which in turn, turns the
transistor Q4 OFF. Now, a voltage of 10v is applied at the emitter of Q4 that makes the current flow
through R1 which also makes the diode D reverse biased. As the transistor Q4 is in cutoff, the
capacitor C gets charged from VBB through R and provides a rundown sweep output at the emitter of
Q3. The capacitor C discharges through D and transistor Q4 at the end of the sweep.

Considering the effect of capacitance C1, the slope speed or sweep speed error is given by

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Applications

Miller sweep circuits are the most commonly used integrator circuit in many devices. It is a widely used
saw tooth generator.

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