How to boost (double voltage) a sawtooth generator

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I have a circuit to drive, using a sawtooth generator, four varactor diodes (FC54).
These varactor diodes has the following specs:
from 2.5pF (at 15V) to 30pF (at 0V), but my sawtooth generator, based on an NE555 (feed at 12V) is only able to give a max Vout of 8V.

I was thinking to implement, to the sawtooth output, some "voltage doubler" (which should be adjustable, to not exceed a max Vout of 15V), or maybe a transistor.
The idea of using a voltage doubler circuit is valid or there is another better way to achieve the improvement? Some hints how to implement this improvement?

Thank you very much.

Current schematic:
Varactor driver

Best Answer

Step 1. To get 15V, you want a power supply higher than 12V. Well, the NE555 has an output which can drive about 100 ma. Use this to power a voltage doubler circuit (2 diodes, 2 capacitors) and you'll get a DC supply slightly less than 24V. Searching for "NE555 voltage doubler" should cover the details.

Step 2. Use this supply to power a low-current opamp with a gain of 2 driving the varicaps,