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11 years, 6 months ago.
How to design wide voltage range digital input ?
I would like to design a board with digital inputs allowing between 2-36 V. Is there anyone who has done a similar thing or can think of a way ?
Thank you,
Orhan
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11 years, 6 months ago.
There are buffer IC's which allow for high input voltages, although not that high afaik. A simple solution is a quite large resistor + zener diode (something like 3.3V-4V zener). The bandwidth of that won't be very large, and 2V is then a bit doubtfull, it is probably detected as a high, but it isn't guaranteed. You could of course use AnalogIn's to solve that issue, but also that doesn't improve the speed.
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