[sdiy] VSM201 Vocorder Question

[Richie Burnett]

With carrier frequency of 50kHz, 0.01% duty ratio (for 80dB attenuation) represents a pulse width of just 2ns! That's getting near the sort of time mismatch you can get in turn-on and turn-off times for the switches. So the switch might not turn on at all, or might stay on twice as long!

-Richie,

Sent from my Xperia SP on O2

---- Tom Wiltshire wrote ----

>+1 totally agree
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>If you can produce a 1% pulse width, you still only get -40dB. You need to get a 0.01% pulse wave to get -80dB. Tough to do. Not impossible, but awkward enough to make it stop seeming like such a great solution.
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>I've thought about this a bit because of using the PIC's PWM module so much. The best case output from that is either 8-bit or 10-bit, which means that -60dB is about as good as I'd get using it for a VCA, and that implies having a switching frequency which is much too low (31KHz) for many jobs.
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>Tom
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>On 2 Jan 2016, at 19:42, rburnett at richieburnett.co.uk wrote:
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>> <snip>
>> Control range of PWM'd CMOS switches acting as VCAs isn't that great though.
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>> -Richie,
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