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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 : 10001
Measurements for Transient Analysis
vout_pp = 1.957497e-02 from= 2.000000e-02 to= 3.000000e-02
vin_pp = 9.999938e-02 from= 2.000000e-02 to= 3.000000e-02
gain = 1.95751e-01
Fourier analysis for v(out):
No. Harmonics: 10, THD: 0.0734595 %, Gridsize: 200, Interpolation Degree: 1
Harmonic Frequency Magnitude Phase Norm. Mag Norm. Phase
-------- --------- --------- ----- --------- -----------
0 0 2.24784e-05 0 0 0
1 1000 0.0097808 -0.12435 1 0
2 2000 3.50027e-06 -89.931 0.000357871 -89.807
3 3000 6.27464e-06 -179.92 0.000641526 -179.79
4 4000 1.02542e-08 63.3596 1.0484e-06 63.4839
5 5000 9.66708e-09 1.77017 9.88373e-07 1.89451
6 6000 3.06945e-09 5.15128 3.13824e-07 5.27562
7 7000 2.62291e-09 6.20035 2.68169e-07 6.3247
8 8000 2.31099e-09 7.21292 2.36278e-07 7.33727
9 9000 2.0502e-09 8.04597 2.09615e-07 8.17032
Total analysis time (seconds) = 0.14
Total elapsed time (seconds) = 0.143
Total DRAM available = 3647.488 MB.
DRAM currently available = 569.441 MB.
Maximum ngspice program size = 21.949 MB.
Current ngspice program size = 14.090 MB.
Shared ngspice pages = 11.652 MB.
Text (code) pages = 6.156 MB.
Stack = 0 bytes.
Library pages = 2.703 MB.