GENERAL DESCRIPTION
The ALD4501 timer is a high performance QUAD monolithic timing circuit built with advanced silicon gate CMOS technology. It offers the benefits of high input impedance, thereby allowing smaller timing capacitors and longer timing cycle; high speed with typical cycle time of 500ns; low power dissipation for battery operated environment; and reduced supply current spikes allowing smaller and lower cost decoupling capacitors. Each of the four timers can be independently operated in either the monostable, astable, or 50% duty cycle mode.

FEATURES
• High speed operation -- 2MHz typical oscillation at 5V
• Each discharge output sinking current: 40mA at 5V
• Guaranteed low operating supply voltage of 2 to 12V
• Each timer is functionally equivalent to NE555 with greatly expanded high and low frequency ranges
• High speed, low power, monolithic CMOS technology
• Low supply current 150µA typical
• Extremely low trigger, threshold and reset currents -- 10pA typical
• Operates in both monostable and astable modes
• Fixed 50% duty cycle or adjustable duty cycle
• CMOS, NMOS and TTL compatible input/output
• Low supply current spikes

APPLICATIONS.
• High speed one-shot (monostable) pulse generation
• Precision timing
• Sequential timing
• Long delay timer
• Pulse width and pulse position modulation
• Missing pulse detector
• Frequency divider
• Synchronized timer