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I expected the two comparators in the TLC3702 package to operate more or less independently of one another. However, I found much to my surprise and disappointment that the first comparator (connected to pins 1/2/3) has much slower high to low propagation delay if the second comparator (pins 5/6/7) just transitioned low to high!
I discovered this because I have two voltage-controlled oscillators on one PCB and they are each using one half of the TLC3702. I noticed that the frequency of one is affected by the frequency of the other and when I looked closely at waveforms on a scope discovered this "feature" of the dual comparator. Below is a scope plot of the two inputs to the comparator in question whose response is slowed down. As can be seen in the plot, the differential comparator input remains around -0.8v for almost 50us before the comparator trips! This is a relaxation oscillator and the comparator + input (green) should go to the low state immediately after the - input crosses over it at around 8us to the right of the middle -- as it does on all the other cycles visible in this plot!
Who can help figure out why this happens and recommend an alternative comparator part that doesn't suffer this shortcoming?
Thanks!
-Brian