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Subject: Re: [motm] AD538 for MOTM-510

From: "Paul Schreiber" <synth1@...>
Date: 2009-10-28

I use the AD538ADZ

Paul S.


--- lightburnx@... wrote:

From: Kyle Stephens <lightburnx@...>
To: motm@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [motm] AD538 for MOTM-510
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:24:33 -0700 (PDT)

Hello...

What grade of AD538 do I need for the MOTM-510 Wavewarper? Paul has alluded to a "$60 IC," though on the Analog Devices website...

http://www.analog.com/en/other-products/analog-multipliersdividers/ad538/products/product.html

...they have a few available for less (and the one nearest to the $60 ballpark actually costs almost $85).

The implication I presume of a cheaper chip is less accuracy, though how sizable a problem might that be?

From what I gather on the datasheet, even a standard AD538 has an "Error of reading" of only +/-0.25%. Admittedly though, if you wana talk percentages, I'm not 100% sure what that implies.

http://www.analog.com/static/imported-files/data_sheets/AD538.pdf


_Kyle





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