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Blog - Electronics example of my work
- Example of my work for Hoofprints Technologies Ltd - RF design long-range low power radio using the same principles as I discuss elsewhere for all analogue design. 2016 - 2018
Blog Electronics - Theoretical design example;
Playing and exploring things I do not have time to do at work. Also to a depth, I would not do for work but is necessary in order to learn and use the things learnt.
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Sadly the quality of new bicycles has deteriorated since the 1970s and turned from bikes that are light to pedal comfortable and feel like they float, sports bikes that are amazing or child bikes that are heavier work but easy to ride. To all regular bikes being heavier work. The best ever bikes were made before 1961 to last 100 years, oiled and maintained fortnightly or every 100 miles at the height of bicycling in the UK. Engineer's used to design products to last and work well just like doctors, nurses, artists the craftsmen they used to be. Whereas the Campaign for Real Ale has empowered people to use their buying power to improve British beer. The Far East and European car manufacturers now make long-lasting low maintenance cars whilst notoriously greedy, short-term, bad management and government frittered away the best engineering, textile and film industry the British once had. A culture of not caring and cynicism has been cultivated. But the system does not work for the little people who now do not have slack in their work and the systems they run fail rather than cope with overload they would have coped with 40 years ago.
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I am trying to simulate in LTSpice your Photo synchronous chopper amplifier demodulator (AL-0003-02B) on page http://www.andrew-lohmann.me.uk/engineer/electronics/electronics---exception---synchronous-rectifier.
ReplyDeleteWhen comparing your synchronous filter ADG1213 with the AD datasheet switch 1&4 are non-inverting and switch 2&3 are inverting logic. In your circuit the symbols are correct but the labeling and pinout IC1B and IC1D seem switched.
Nevertheless when correcting this in my LTSpice simulation I still do not have alternating output over the capacitor C1 which I would expect giving the same clock to all 4 switches?
Dear Klaus,
DeleteYour evaluation of my circuit is an invaluable review for me thanks.
You are correct to say that the analogue switch sub-parts or wrong and I find that in using these parts elsewhere that I had corrected them but I had not got as far as correcting my web-page. Since creating that project I have been in paid work and have used some of these designs as training exercises and I have been busy. I will update the web-page shortly.
I will look at the text - I would not be surprised if I have not described properly what the circuit should do. With ambient light falling on the photo diode the average voltage at the output should be zero. But with light, say from an LED driven from the synchronous clock should cause a voltage output proportional to the polarity and current drive to the LED.
I am sure you understood that anyway Klaus but C1 should have very little AC signal voltage with a simply modulated light source. With high ambient light the the voltage on C1 will have a small triangle wave ripple.