I was thinking about building a small, low power dc/dc converter, +5 to maybe
-25 volts, to bias a photodiode. I only need maybe 0.5 mA, but I want the converter to be very quiet, which means no sharp switching edges or shoot-throughs. After futzing with a few ideas, I figured that a pair of r-r opamps, with reasonable slew rates, could do it. So, the opamp astable multivibrator. The complementary squarish waves are net 10 volts p-p, so could drive a 3:1 stepup transformer into a full-wave doubler or something.
The opamp inputs are swinging past the rails, so I don't know if the opamp model is correct. You'd expect ESD diodes or something. Anyhow, that can be fixed.
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