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need to design a square wave generator for a medical application, 2 Hz, can I use an 555 timer or an aruduino nano and an AD9833?

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This project is to develop an electrical stimulation device that sends square waves to electrodes taped on the ski and should alternate between a 2 Hz square wave and a 100 Hz square wave. Each will run for 3 seconds, and should stop after a fixed amount of time. The device with include a dial or similar control to set the current.
 

Your project resembles a two-tone siren as seen in basic circuits for 555 IC. Possibly a 556 (which is two 555's in one chip).

To operate for a fixed length of time, possibly an additional 555 acting as a one-shot.
 

What is range of Current you have to control ?

Regards, Dana.
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One possibility, single chip. Very little code needs to be written, I estimate <
10 lines of code.

The SAR measures pot and uses that value to set current source.. All that you
see is onchip.

A more advanced version of chip has all of the following, including DFSP Filter
in case you need to filter signal of interest.

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Other chip resources in 5LP family, the above was lower end 4 family. Which is a subset of
following -

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Regards, Dana.
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Another approach using mBlock to program an ATTINY85. You start with
and Arduino Nano board, ~ $3, and then once debug finished you use the
Nano board to program an ATTIN85 (8 pin dip).

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mBlock, free, 6'th graders using it to program robots, but a fast way of doing simple
control project.

The pot is examined by its A./D and then used to program its PWM. You then add a R-C
LPF to convert PWM duty cycle back to DC, and use that to control some external OpAmp
constant current source/sink.


Regards, Dana.
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Here is proto using ATTINY85, after being programmed with Nano Board.

In this case you have to take PWM DC V (After LPF) and feed that to external
OpAmp current source/sink.

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