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    How to make SG3525's Output Voltage to 5V?

    At such a low frequency, seems like you could let the micro execute any PWM and drive a basic MOSFET driver from a logic output pin. There are isolating MOSFET drivers now which might offer some interconnection possibilities (like any-to-any cell leveling) used with a FET or just for their...
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    How to make SG3525's Output Voltage to 5V?

    5V supply won't get you out of UVLO. Look into more modern PMICs in CMOS that can drive logic-level MOSFETs and like 5V input (POL DC-DC). ONSemi, TI, ST, et al, use disti selector tools?
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    Internal logic of IO pads

    The output high and low side switches want their gates driven to make H, L and Z. You need a trivial couple of gates for that decode and of course the drive taper chain (inverters).
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    Good source for components equivalent

    Used to be that "NTE" would sell individual bagged "replacement" transistors at ham radio & TV repair places, had a faty cross reference book and so on. No idea whether they have survived the modern era or in what form, where. For older types often the discrete mfrs would have their own...
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    About process corner lot

    Check your starting assumption, that your new product lot will receive any processing outside the mature process production envelope. Aside from a fluke (or a real sloppy fab choice) the odds are 3- or 4-sigma low. Probably more like 3 in the fab and 4 in the PDK.
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    About process corner lot

    The fab rats know how to bend the shot to get short L thin Tox low VT or whatever. Somebody does the DoX and they execute. Your over-calendar-time-and-oopsie-plus-sandbag "corners" are way way wider than a single lot's scatter.
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    Continuous time comparator (Systematic offset)

    Are you saying you want to correct offsets which have a source external to the comparator? Correcting a continuous-time comparator might need you to ping-pong a pair of autozero comparators, use one while zeroing the other. But autozero tends to have a lower frequency bound, set by bleed-out...
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    EPROM flash and change

    A good while back I was building a digital modulator engine (AWG as EPROM+DAC, and a mixer) and I found some "one time programmable EPROM" parts which had no window, plastic packaged, so no erase but they were faster (like 75ns vs 150ns?) and dirt cheap (basically 256K PROM). If your...
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    DRC Violations. Please Help. Urgent.

    I start with searching the error text, to find the rule code; then follow the logic backwards through the deck until you can identify the layer precursors that make the logical args.
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    DRC Violations. Please Help. Urgent.

    Drill into the DRC deck and see what defines "chip edge". It may not be prBoundary. Might be "bulk" or "scribe" or something like that. First step to debugging is understanding what the rule is supposed to be telling you. Do not assume developer clarity or communications skills, flowed all the...
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    EPROM flash and change

    Unfortunately programmers on the market will tend to move with the times and maybe we are losing coverage of "classic" parallel EPROMs. And then you lose 5V operation, going modern, which then obviates using 74HC/AC logic for playing around. A cascade of rip-up "for want of a nail". You might...
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    Vcc Issue in PWM controller

    A reality-vs-simulation background issue could be electrolytic capacitor ESL/ESR, which all alone might make the "reservoir" have too skinny a pipe to cover switching transient demand and let the at-pins Vcc sag into UVLO territory. In simulation an ideal cap will work, but what you can get in...
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    EPROM flash and change

    If you are willing to wait you can use direct sunlight. I have had decent luck, though not with your specific memory P/N, using the Willem programmer on UV EPROMs.
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    Vcc Issue in PWM controller

    Looks to me like you are set up for, and maybe not escaping, "hiccup mode". I see what looks like a boot winding diode- OR'd to Vcc, and a skinnky 50K pullup. So every time you cross UVLO rising, you get one "yip" out the back which (you hope) will pump the bypass cap hard enough to not hit...
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    Future of Analog IC design

    The future is about problems, parts are the answer to real world problems. Do I know whether anybody wants another op amp years from now? No, not 'til I can figure out what future systems might impose differently for requirements. You can bet on more bits at higher rate for less power at zero...

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