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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 0.5
ctrlf 0.49505
in 0
bufin 0
buf 0
out 0
bra 10.217
bra_i 10.217
brb_i 10.217
brb 10.217
brp 10.6536
brn 9.78053
opout 1.08807
sense 0.495039
base 1.08511
bop#branch -6.29348e-07
e_buf#branch 0
vin#branch 0
vctrl#branch -4.9505e-07
vee#branch 0
vcc#branch -6.11985e-05
No. of Data Rows : 10001
Measurements for Transient Analysis
vout_pp = 4.185565e-02 from= 2.000000e-02 to= 3.000000e-02
vin_pp = 9.999938e-02 from= 2.000000e-02 to= 3.000000e-02
gain = 4.18559e-01
Fourier analysis for v(out):
No. Harmonics: 10, THD: 0.259817 %, Gridsize: 200, Interpolation Degree: 1
Harmonic Frequency Magnitude Phase Norm. Mag Norm. Phase
-------- --------- --------- ----- --------- -----------
0 0 4.25891e-05 0 0 0
1 1000 0.0208848 -0.032714 1 0
2 2000 3.36654e-05 -90.015 0.00161196 -89.982
3 3000 4.25554e-05 -179.96 0.00203763 -179.93
4 4000 2.37061e-07 89.1326 1.13509e-05 89.1653
5 5000 7.46421e-08 0.103751 3.57399e-06 0.136465
6 6000 2.34866e-09 -12.036 1.12458e-07 -12.003
7 7000 2.05338e-09 6.44355 9.83196e-08 6.47626
8 8000 1.72318e-09 7.30784 8.25087e-08 7.34055
9 9000 1.54164e-09 7.31165 7.38164e-08 7.34436
Total analysis time (seconds) = 0.129
Total elapsed time (seconds) = 0.132
Total DRAM available = 3647.488 MB.
DRAM currently available = 571.852 MB.
Maximum ngspice program size = 21.945 MB.
Current ngspice program size = 14.023 MB.
Shared ngspice pages = 11.590 MB.
Text (code) pages = 6.156 MB.
Stack = 0 bytes.
Library pages = 2.699 MB.