Gentlemen:
I have an application where I have a large number of lines that transmit square waves across about a six foot distance. It is an extremely noisy environment: electromechanical relays, other signals in close proximity on a PCB, etc. All I need from each square wave is to determine its period by accurately measuring the time between two successive low-to-high transitions. I have tried shielding the hell out of each individual line and all sorts of other measures, but I still get enough residual noise, especially at transitions, to cause problems.
Rather than transmitting the whole wave, would it be possible to only transmit a short pulse (say 1.0 us) for each low-to-high transition at the source? Since the signal spends most of its time grounded, do you think these short pulses would be able to escape the noise? If I can get reasonably clean pulses, I can still get an accurate period measurement.
Thanks for any help.
Don