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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 : 10001
Measurements for Transient Analysis
vout_pp = 1.546882e-02 from= 2.000000e-02 to= 3.000000e-02
vin_pp = 9.999938e-02 from= 2.000000e-02 to= 3.000000e-02
gain = 1.54689e-01
Fourier analysis for v(out):
No. Harmonics: 10, THD: 0.0477734 %, Gridsize: 200, Interpolation Degree: 1
Harmonic Frequency Magnitude Phase Norm. Mag Norm. Phase
-------- --------- --------- ----- --------- -----------
0 0 2.32975e-05 0 0 0
1 1000 0.00773074 -0.1734 1 0
2 2000 1.72858e-06 -89.794 0.000223598 -89.621
3 3000 3.26373e-06 -179.91 0.000422175 -179.74
4 4000 5.90922e-09 33.3351 7.64379e-07 33.5085
5 5000 6.11211e-09 2.99536 7.90624e-07 3.16875
6 6000 3.29125e-09 5.31891 4.25735e-07 5.49231
7 7000 2.82671e-09 6.26899 3.65645e-07 6.44238
8 8000 2.48172e-09 7.17398 3.21019e-07 7.34738
9 9000 2.20612e-09 8.05641 2.85369e-07 8.22981
Total analysis time (seconds) = 0.138
Total elapsed time (seconds) = 0.148
Total DRAM available = 3647.488 MB.
DRAM currently available = 569.441 MB.
Maximum ngspice program size = 21.945 MB.
Current ngspice program size = 13.949 MB.
Shared ngspice pages = 11.512 MB.
Text (code) pages = 6.156 MB.
Stack = 0 bytes.
Library pages = 2.699 MB.