<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Sun, 10 Dec 2023 at 20:36, brianw <<a href="mailto:brianw@audiobanshee.com">brianw@audiobanshee.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">A passive RC link between the mux cap (a.k.a. S/H cap) before the buffer op-amp will drain the S/H storage cap. </blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yes, but it will only drain charge to the next cap, not to ground or other potential.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">I'm super-paranoid about selecting op-amps with JFET inputs and tens of gigaohms of input impedance to avoid draining that S/H cap. Putting a passive RC filter between the cap and op-amp buffer would defeat that.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I'd say it works well. :-)</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Wouldn't the same RC filter work equally well *after* the buffer op-amp?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Sometimes, but not if it's supposed to feed low-impedance destinations. IIRC I've added an RC link after the op-amp as well in some critical situation.</div><div> </div><div>/mr</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On Dec 10, 2023, at 3:50 AM, Mattias Rickardsson <<a href="mailto:mr@analogue.org" target="_blank">mr@analogue.org</a>> wrote:<br>
> brianw <<a href="mailto:brianw@audiobanshee.com" target="_blank">brianw@audiobanshee.com</a>> skrev:<br>
> On Dec 8, 2023, at 6:50 AM, Mattias Rickardsson <<a href="mailto:mr@analogue.org" target="_blank">mr@analogue.org</a>> wrote:<br>
> > Roman Sowa <<a href="mailto:modular@go2.pl" target="_blank">modular@go2.pl</a>> skrev:<br>
> >> OTOH I would love to see someone doing 100-outs MUX with single DAC <br>
> >> spitting 16-bit precision at 1Msps<br>
> > <br>
> > That's basically what we do since 2012. <br>
> > 16-bit 1MSPS DAC running at 0.96 MHz, multiplexing its output to 40 CV channels, each at 24kHz update rate (no zipper noise in the audio band). <br>
> > Works well, but I wouldn't want to try controlling that DAC/mux timing with a microprocessor, or build it on a single-sided board. :-)<br>
> <br>
> One question I have is, "How much reconstruction filtering is necessary?"<br>
> <br>
> It was enough with an extra RC link directly after the mux cap, before the buffer op-amp. Added cost: ~0.008 $ per CV channel.<br>
> <br>
> /mr<br>
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