  The problem of exactly differentiating a signal with bounded second
derivative is considered. A class of differentiators is proposed, which
converge to the derivative of such a signal within a fixed, i.e., a finite and
uniformly bounded convergence time. A tuning procedure is derived that allows
to assign an arbitrary, predefined upper bound for this convergence time. It is
furthermore shown that this bound can be made arbitrarily tight by appropriate
tuning. The usefulness of the procedure is demonstrated by applying it to the
well-known uniform robust exact differentiator, which is included in the
considered class of differentiators as a special case.
