<div dir="ltr">Excellent suggestions all, thanks. <br><br>Ian: I will have to verify the nature of the voltages in the ladder, my initial test seemed to work with single VN0104's but bipolar voltage is something I should validate.<br><br>The Maxims cited are very nice, but their package is not friendly unless I have assembly done along with the PCB... feasible perhaps, but I hope to avoid.<br><br>The ADG could work very well, and I have no problem with a small PIC. TSSOP is hand solderable too, that's a plus.<br><br>This also led me to Mouser's "analog switches" section, which I'm going to browse for other options. MAX314/MAX4605 look promising if I want to stick to through hole components....<div><br></div><div>Pete<br><br><br><br><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 9:27 AM, Vladimir Pantelic <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:vladoman@gmail.com" target="_blank">vladoman@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On <a href="tel:27.06.2016%2016" value="+12706201616">27.06.2016 16</a>:15, Pete Hartman wrote:<br>
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> First thought: CD4052, but that doesn't work well in practice at all.<br>
><br>
> Second thought: DG409, better characteristics, but that still doesn't<br>
> work sufficiently well.<br>
><br>
> Dig around a while for why.... aha, the on resistance for both is<br>
> significant, especially for the capacitive stages of a ladder filter.<br>
> The DG409 has on the order of 100R - 120R. Too much, and confirmed to<br>
> be the issue by comparing physical connections with wire to physical<br>
> connections with 100R resistors.<br>
<br>
</span>ADG1414, R_on = 9.5R and 8 switches inside one package - but needs SPI<br>
so you need to add a 50¢ uC to control it<br>
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