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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 : 10001
Measurements for Transient Analysis
vout_pp = 2.666745e-02 from= 2.000000e-02 to= 3.000000e-02
vin_pp = 9.999938e-02 from= 2.000000e-02 to= 3.000000e-02
gain = 2.66676e-01
Fourier analysis for v(out):
No. Harmonics: 10, THD: 0.126404 %, Gridsize: 200, Interpolation Degree: 1
Harmonic Frequency Magnitude Phase Norm. Mag Norm. Phase
-------- --------- --------- ----- --------- -----------
0 0 2.46824e-05 0 0 0
1 1000 0.013319 -0.076644 1 0
2 2000 8.8296e-06 -90.003 0.000662932 -89.926
3 3000 1.43345e-05 -179.93 0.00107625 -179.85
4 4000 3.6746e-08 84.6314 2.75891e-06 84.708
5 5000 2.31773e-08 0.613265 1.74016e-06 0.689909
6 6000 2.28871e-09 2.97013 1.71838e-07 3.04678
7 7000 1.94485e-09 6.27027 1.46021e-07 6.34692
8 8000 1.72435e-09 7.50269 1.29466e-07 7.57933
9 9000 1.54649e-09 7.56265 1.16111e-07 7.6393
Total analysis time (seconds) = 0.114
Total elapsed time (seconds) = 0.118
Total DRAM available = 3647.488 MB.
DRAM currently available = 569.703 MB.
Maximum ngspice program size = 21.941 MB.
Current ngspice program size = 13.973 MB.
Shared ngspice pages = 11.539 MB.
Text (code) pages = 6.156 MB.
Stack = 0 bytes.
Library pages = 2.695 MB.