Slightly OT: Anyone want to swap CEMs for SSMs?

[Martin Czech]

:::    When I looked at the block diagram for the CEM3340, the biggest mystery to me
:::is the internal temp compensation for the exponential converter.  Everything else
:::looks pretty straight forward to reverse engineer.  Perhaps if one were to make a
:::compromise and use a tempco resistor for the temp compensation one could make
:::something that would be pin compatable, but not nessesarily and exact duplicate of
:::the original.
:::

And another idea comming out from this is to built an oscillator core.
Ie all the sensible components on a little pcb, so there is the option to
pot it, in order to force low thermal gradients.  The normal circuitry is
on the "mother pcb". So, a better design can replace mediocre solutions
without too much pain, and thermal capacitance is minimized. I even
would go so far to use SMDs for this purpose.

m.c.