pulse width to serial conversion

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Hi 

I am struggling with my project.   The system generates a set of 10 different pulses at the same time and I need to output them sequentially one after the other as a serial stream ,i have tired using fifo or shift regs but not getting very far.   Wonder if anybody can help point me in the right direction ???   many thanks      jan

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Pulsewidth is basically an analog signal. Buffering of pulsewidth information and resending it delayed, which is apparently necessary for your design, involves time discretization as a first step. You have to decide about a resolution and have to provide a sufficient fast clock for pulsewidth measurement. You must also specify an supported upper pulsewidth bound. In other words, start with a clear specification.

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--- Quote Start ---  Pulsewidth is basically an analog signal. Buffering of pulsewidth information and resending it delayed, which is apparently necessary for your design, involves time discretization as a first step. You have to decide about a resolution and have to provide a sufficient fast clock for pulsewidth measurement. You must also specify an supported upper pulsewidth bound. In other words, start with a clear specification.  --- Quote End ---     Hi thanks for that    maybe i need to make it clearer the pulse width i am generating is in my program so for a given digital input i am creating a set of 10 different widths of pulse as per the diagram eg 300us , 800us etc, i need to just have each pulse follow on from each other as a serial output i.e to convert the parallel data to serial conversion. I have tried doing it as as staged ripple counter so when one finishes the next stage starts which works but i need to be able to store the origional data pulse so it will output at the right time when that stage is selected.   i hope this makes a bit more sense     jan

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You may want to sketch an example of the serialized stream. If you are generating the pulses yourself, they don't need to be generated "at the same time".