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App Note 209 How Delay Lines Work How Do Dallas Semiconductor Delay Lines Work? In the early eighties, Dallas Semiconductor was the first company to develop the all-silicon delay line. This provided a smaller, more cost-effective alternative to the modular delay lines used at the time. Old Generation DS1000 Delay Line The first Dallas delay lines consisted of a RC-based ramp generator and a comparator circuit that transitioned the delay line output when a certain voltage level of the ramp generator was reached. Calibration was performed at the factory at wafer level by using a laser to blow a series of fuses until the desired delay was achieved. There was no provision for temperature compensation. Today, the current generation of lines is more sophisticated. Maxim/Dallas all-silicon delay lines contain a novel circuit consisting of a voltage-controlled delay line (VCDL) used in conjunction with a compensation circuit to reduce delay variations caused by changes in process, temperature, and voltage. Building a silicon delay line is not very difficult. Any logic gate has a propagation delay and can be used as a delay line. The difficult part is building a delay line that can be set precisely to a specific delay period that remains consistent over variations in process, temperature, and voltage. Stabilizing these delay times requires a compensation scheme independent of these parameters. One way to do this is to use feedback, determine a delay error and use that error to generate a corrective input back into the delay line. This requires a method to measure the delay error and a way to control the delay time. A simple way to control the delay time in a logic gate is to vary the supply voltage. In g