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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 1.5
ctrlf 1.48515
in 0
bufin 0
buf 0
out 0
bra 7.4854
bra_i 7.4854
brb_i 7.4854
brb 7.4854
brp 7.97611
brn 6.99474
opout 2.11269
sense 1.48513
base 2.10492
bop#branch -1.65412e-06
e_buf#branch 0
vin#branch 0
vctrl#branch -1.48515e-06
vee#branch 0
vcc#branch -0.000182904
No. of Data Rows : 20001
Measurements for Transient Analysis
vout_pp = 1.046220e+01 from= 2.000000e-02 to= 3.000000e-02
vin_pp = 1.199998e+01 from= 2.000000e-02 to= 3.000000e-02
gain = 8.71851e-01
Fourier analysis for v(out):
No. Harmonics: 10, THD: 4.43732 %, Gridsize: 200, Interpolation Degree: 1
Harmonic Frequency Magnitude Phase Norm. Mag Norm. Phase
-------- --------- --------- ----- --------- -----------
0 0 0.145786 0 0 0
1 1000 5.12967 -0.0079083 1 0
2 2000 0.109944 -90.042 0.0214329 -90.034
3 3000 0.156563 -179.96 0.030521 -179.95
4 4000 0.0217736 -90.11 0.00424464 -90.102
5 5000 0.0917895 -179.99 0.0178938 -179.98
6 6000 0.00920715 -90.173 0.00179488 -90.165
7 7000 0.0632696 179.982 0.0123341 179.99
8 8000 0.00500737 -90.224 0.000976158 -90.216
9 9000 0.0468919 179.948 0.00914131 179.956
Total analysis time (seconds) = 0.284
Total elapsed time (seconds) = 0.289
Total DRAM available = 3647.488 MB.
DRAM currently available = 561.613 MB.
Maximum ngspice program size = 22.195 MB.
Current ngspice program size = 14.160 MB.
Shared ngspice pages = 11.523 MB.
Text (code) pages = 6.156 MB.
Stack = 0 bytes.
Library pages = 2.949 MB.