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Diode-Bridge Voltage-Controlled Attenuator
Public Unreviewedby John Lauer
Two-layer through-hole audio attenuator: four 1N4148s as a current-biased shunt bridge, 0 to 2 V control, designed by Saif Abdessayed with Adom Hydrogen
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John Lauer
Saif Abdessayed's diode-bridge VCA: KiCad project, Gerbers, BOM, simulations, reports, and the earlier RC filter test
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Circuit: * diode-bridge voltage-controlled attenuator
Doing analysis at TEMP = 27.000000 and TNOM = 27.000000
Using SPARSE 1.3 as Direct Linear Solver
Initial Transient Solution
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Node Voltage
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vcc 12
vee -12
ctrl 0
ctrlf 0
in 0
bufin 0
buf 0
out 0
bra 11.8059
bra_i 11.8059
brb_i 11.8059
brb 11.8059
brp 11.9896
brn 11.6743
opout -6.27596e-06
sense 6.27596e-11
base -6.22105e-06
bop#branch 1.16835e-11
e_buf#branch 0
vin#branch 0
vctrl#branch 0
vee#branch 0
vcc#branch -4.7278e-07
No. of Data Rows : 20001
Measurements for Transient Analysis
vout_pp = 1.123799e+01 from= 2.000000e-02 to= 3.000000e-02
vin_pp = 1.199998e+01 from= 2.000000e-02 to= 3.000000e-02
gain = 9.36501e-01
Fourier analysis for v(out):
No. Harmonics: 10, THD: 1.97245 %, Gridsize: 200, Interpolation Degree: 1
Harmonic Frequency Magnitude Phase Norm. Mag Norm. Phase
-------- --------- --------- ----- --------- -----------
0 0 0.151974 0 0 0
1 1000 5.62231 -0.0062471 1 0
2 2000 0.108338 -90.037 0.0192693 -90.031
3 3000 0.00492801 -1.0868 0.00087651 -1.0805
4 4000 0.0207972 -90.099 0.00369906 -90.092
5 5000 0.00258502 -0.7333 0.000459779 -0.72706
6 6000 0.00853737 -90.179 0.00151848 -90.173
7 7000 0.00166382 -0.38882 0.000295932 -0.38257
8 8000 0.00452865 -90.29 0.00080548 -90.284
9 9000 0.00118401 -0.075455 0.000210591 -0.069208
Total analysis time (seconds) = 0.239
Total elapsed time (seconds) = 0.244
Total DRAM available = 3647.488 MB.
DRAM currently available = 569.441 MB.
Maximum ngspice program size = 22.195 MB.
Current ngspice program size = 14.281 MB.
Shared ngspice pages = 11.648 MB.
Text (code) pages = 6.156 MB.
Stack = 0 bytes.
Library pages = 2.949 MB.