The 74LS123 is ‘retriggerable’, this means that if it gets retriggered while already active, it starts all over, keeping the output state ‘high’ (or ‘low’ if inverted) for the designed output pulse duration until the next trigger signal arrives.
This basically means that if the trigger signal occurs at shorter intervals than the output pulse duration, the output will stay active permanently.
Why would you ever want this?
One application could be to strip off some modulation of a digital signal, as an example the flickery LED candles.. They’re pulse width modulated: I can remove this with the 74LS123 after which, the random flicker sequence will be ready to capture and analyze 🙂
Stay tuned for my next post 👌🏻🤓
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