555 Timer IC

OVERVIEW:

• It operates from a wide range of power supplies ranging from + 5 Volts to + 18 Volts supply voltage.
• Sinking or sourcing 200 mA of load current.
• The external components should be selected properly so that the timing intervals can be made into several minutes along with the frequencies exceeding several hundred-kilo hertz.
• The output of a 555 timer can drive a transistor-transistor logic (TTL) due to its high current output.
• It has a temperature stability of 50 parts per million (ppm) per degree Celsius change in temperature, or equivalently 0.005 %/°C.
• The duty cycle of the timer is adjustable.
• The maximum power dissipation per package is 600 mW and its trigger and reset inputs have logic compatibility. More features are listed in the datasheet.