General Purpose Timers

The ICM7555 and ICM7556 are CMOS RC timers providing significantly improved performance over the standard SE/NE 555/556 and 355 timers, while at the same time being direct replacements for those devices in most applications. Improved parameters include low supply current, wide operating supply voltage range, low Threshold, Trigger and Reset currents, no crowbarring of the supply current during output transitions, higher frequency performance and no requirement to decouple Control Voltage for stable operation.

FEATUREs
• Exact equivalent in most cases for SE/NE 555/556 or TLC555/556
• Low supply current
   - ICM7555 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60µA
   - ICM7556 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120µA
• Extremely low input currents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20pA
• High speed operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1MHz
• Guaranteed supply voltage range . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2V to 18V
• Temperature stability . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.005%/°C at +25°C
• Normal reset function - no crowbarring of supply during output transition
• Can be used with higher impedance timing elements than regular 555/556 for longer RC time constants
• Timing from microseconds through hours
• Operates in both astable and monostable modes
• Adjustable duty cycle
• High output source/sink driver can drive TTL/CMOS
• Outputs have very low offsets, HIGH and LOW
• Pb-free (RoHS Compliant)

APPLICATIONs
• Precision timing
• Pulse generation
• Sequential timing
• Time delay generation
• Pulse width modulation
• Pulse position modulation
• Missing pulse detector