<div dir="ltr">Part of why I found this little fact amazing was exactly that shortly after the chip went into obsolescence (and has since reappeared in new fresh prints, I believe?). They only use one OTA and LM13700 is a dual package. Perhaps the answer is way simpler, and the designer behind this module just happened to know of CA3080 and used it without overthinking it.<div>CA3080A was used, which has a slightly tighter gm spec and extended temperature range (-55C to 125C). There is a note that says "Ordered and received 300pcs - not one D?C -returned to vendor. REORDERED by RJ"</div><div>Berkeley wanted to be absolutely sure they won't run out, so according to this spreadsheet they kept 150 units in stock, just in case.</div><div><br></div><div>You can have a look here, <a href="http://apollo.ssl.berkeley.edu">apollo.ssl.berkeley.edu</a> enter this in an FTP client (ie, Filezilla) and log in with a blank username and password. There are a few other mission folders too, but none are as detailed as MAVEN is (you will even find code, schematics, gerbers, tons of goodies).</div><div>AFAIK this is public access and, I guess, legal? I found the link by googling.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, 8 Apr 2021 at 16:10, Benjamin Tremblay via Synth-diy <<a href="mailto:synth-diy@synth-diy.org" target="_blank">synth-diy@synth-diy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Awesome. I blew out a 3080 on the Radio Shack Moog in 1984. I had never heard of an OTA until I read the description in the RCA replacement parts catalog at Mountain States Electronics in Colorado. At first I thought, this is why it’s a Radio Shack product, Moog would never use this little chip in its own products. Of course I was wrong, and the schematic for an OTA sure looks like the schematic for a VCA with current mirrors on the differential inputs. My tiny teenager brain could not process this. If it’s a current amplifier, why not just use the cheaper LM3900? My mental functions could not get me to the logical next step: In the state variable filter circuit you built using a stereo potentiometer to control the cutoff frequency, two OTAs could replace the pots as “virtual resistors”. It never occurred to me that I could breadboard the OTA and control its gain with current without needing a voltage processing circuit. <br>
This is a perfect example of the walls that kept me from going deeper into synth-building. The first principal of the OTA is “current-controlled differential current amplifier”, but every article or schematic I could find jumped over that into paragraphs about how clever they were to normalize the input to modular CV and provide an exponential-to-linear converter. <br>
And of course my own experiments building VCAs were disappointing because I could not trim out all the thump. I thought it was because I was a dummy who could not grasp how it really worked. Nobody told me a good VCA thumps if the input is near-DC and the envelope is too spiky. <br>
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> On Apr 8, 2021, at 8:43 AM, Neil Johnson via Synth-diy <<a href="mailto:synth-diy@synth-diy.org" target="_blank">synth-diy@synth-diy.org</a>> wrote:<br>
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