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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 2
ctrlf 1.9802
in 0
bufin 0
buf 0
out 0
bra 6.13215
bra_i 6.13215
brb_i 6.13215
brb 6.13215
brp 6.6371
brn 5.62722
opout 2.61819
sense 1.98017
base 2.60806
bop#branch -2.15581e-06
e_buf#branch 0
vin#branch 0
vctrl#branch -1.9802e-06
vee#branch 0
vcc#branch -0.000243768
No. of Data Rows : 20001
Measurements for Transient Analysis
vout_pp = 1.021094e+01 from= 2.000000e-02 to= 3.000000e-02
vin_pp = 1.199998e+01 from= 2.000000e-02 to= 3.000000e-02
gain = 8.50913e-01
Fourier analysis for v(out):
No. Harmonics: 10, THD: 5.69446 %, Gridsize: 200, Interpolation Degree: 1
Harmonic Frequency Magnitude Phase Norm. Mag Norm. Phase
-------- --------- --------- ----- --------- -----------
0 0 0.140422 0 0 0
1 1000 4.97051 -0.0083799 1 0
2 2000 0.109613 -90.044 0.0220526 -90.035
3 3000 0.20759 -179.97 0.0417643 -179.96
4 4000 0.021374 -90.114 0.00430015 -90.105
5 5000 0.120131 -179.99 0.0241687 -179.98
6 6000 0.00878118 -90.174 0.00176665 -90.165
7 7000 0.0811844 179.98 0.0163332 179.988
8 8000 0.00456618 -90.209 0.000918654 -90.201
9 9000 0.0585492 179.949 0.0117793 179.958
Total analysis time (seconds) = 0.231
Total elapsed time (seconds) = 0.239
Total DRAM available = 3647.488 MB.
DRAM currently available = 561.395 MB.
Maximum ngspice program size = 22.199 MB.
Current ngspice program size = 14.145 MB.
Shared ngspice pages = 11.508 MB.
Text (code) pages = 6.156 MB.
Stack = 0 bytes.
Library pages = 2.953 MB.