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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 1
ctrlf 0.990099
in 0
bufin 0
buf 0
out 0
bra 8.84433
bra_i 8.84433
brb_i 8.84433
brb 8.84433
brp 9.31507
brn 8.37367
opout 1.60415
sense 0.990083
base 1.59874
bop#branch -1.15038e-06
e_buf#branch 0
vin#branch 0
vctrl#branch -9.90099e-07
vee#branch 0
vcc#branch -0.000122042
No. of Data Rows : 20001
Measurements for Transient Analysis
vout_pp = 1.071387e+01 from= 2.000000e-02 to= 3.000000e-02
vin_pp = 1.199998e+01 from= 2.000000e-02 to= 3.000000e-02
gain = 8.92823e-01
Fourier analysis for v(out):
No. Harmonics: 10, THD: 3.29864 %, Gridsize: 200, Interpolation Degree: 1
Harmonic Frequency Magnitude Phase Norm. Mag Norm. Phase
-------- --------- --------- ----- --------- -----------
0 0 0.151077 0 0 0
1 1000 5.28936 -0.0075477 1 0
2 2000 0.110017 -90.041 0.0207997 -90.033
3 3000 0.104595 -179.93 0.0197747 -179.93
4 4000 0.0219493 -90.108 0.0041497 -90.1
5 5000 0.0619747 -179.97 0.0117169 -179.96
6 6000 0.00942467 -90.175 0.00178181 -90.168
7 7000 0.0433804 179.994 0.00820143 180.002
8 8000 0.00525032 -90.237 0.000992618 -90.23
9 9000 0.0328237 179.954 0.00620561 179.962
Total analysis time (seconds) = 0.246
Total elapsed time (seconds) = 0.255
Total DRAM available = 3647.488 MB.
DRAM currently available = 561.578 MB.
Maximum ngspice program size = 22.191 MB.
Current ngspice program size = 14.301 MB.
Shared ngspice pages = 11.668 MB.
Text (code) pages = 6.156 MB.
Stack = 0 bytes.
Library pages = 2.945 MB.