Professional Documents
Culture Documents
95+80º 0.765⳯SIN(2f105)
95+210º Figure 3
(SUM OF VECTORS A AND B)
45+180º 45+210º B⳱SIN
(2fⳭ180)
233 mV 350 mV
y3 A⳱SIN
y1 (2f45)
y2
x2 x3 x1
300 mV
Figure 1 R1
5k 15V 15V
1k
1k 11 11
1 16
3.3k 10k ABC V+ 22k ABC V+
10k 3 14
IN+ IC 5 IN+ IC
2
DI 3A O 15 DI 3B O 12
4 LM13700 13 LM13700
7 INⳮ 8 INⳮ 9
BO 10
47 pF BI Vⳮ BI Vⳮ BO
15V
CV 6 6
3 BC559
+ 8
IC1A 1 ⳮ15V 100k ⳮ15V
OPA2277
2 4
ⳮ
22k
ⳮ15V 1k 1k 1k 1k
R2
1N4148 1N4148
100k
1
10k
10k
15V 15V
10k
47 pF 1k 11 1k 11
15V
1 15V 16 15V
5 + BC559 10k ABC V+ 22k ABC V+
3 14
8 IN+ IC4A IN+ IC
IC1B 2 5 3 + 15 4B O 12 5 +
7 DI LM13700 O 8 DI 8
OPA2277 4 IC2A 1 13 LM13700 IC2B 7
6 7 INⳮ 8 INⳮ 9
ⳮ 4 BO TL072 10 BO TL072
BI Vⳮ BI Vⳮ 6 ⳮ
2ⳮ 4 4
6 6
ⳮ15V
This quadrature-output VCO produces both positive and negative output frequencies.
from the two buffers with the highest dis- dot becomes slower as you adjust the the two separate dual-amplifier packages.
tortion product approximately 40 dB control voltage near zero and then per- The diodes across the current-source op
down from the fundamental. fectly reverses direction as the control amps avoid heavy saturation when the
For negative control voltages, the up- voltage goes negative. This transition respective source turns off. You trim the
per transconductance amplifiers, IC3A occurs without any unwanted crossing R2 potentiometer to obtain equal ampli-
and IC3B, receive bias current, and the of the circle or drifting off beyond the tudes from the upper and the lower sec-
lower amplifiers shut off. The upper circle. tions. The circuit in Figure 1 uses stan-
amplifiers work in exactly the same way The two current sources, IC1A and IC1B, dard, inexpensive, multiple-sourced
as the lower ones, but they cross-con- are fairly self-explanatory; the upper components. It requires only minimal
nect to the inputs and integrator ca- source operates for negative control volt- (and easy) trimming, with no interacting
pacitors. In this way, the in-phase and ages and vice versa. The R1 gain trimmer trims. A 0V control input results in a
quadrature outputs are reversed for on the upper source allows you to adjust guaranteed 0-Hz output, dependent only
negative control voltages, thus creating the oscillator such that a given negative on well-controlled op-amp offsets. With
a smooth transition to what you can control voltage yields the same frequen- the Bode/Moog system, you must make
consider a “negative frequency.” In op- cy as does the equal-magnitude positive a front-panel adjustment to zero-beat
eration, when viewing the outputs on control voltage. This trim compensates two oscillators running at 20 kHz.왏
an X-Y trace, the circular rotation of the for differences in transconductance of
60 edn | December 25, 2003 www.edn.com
design
ideas
16-bit adjustable reference uses
8-bit digital potentiometers
Bonnie Baker, Tucson, AZ
t may be easy to find a precision volt-