Wouldn't that defeat the filter properties of the Tayloe detector?
Bill WB5TCO
Phil Covington wrote:
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P.S. I put a model of the capacitorless circuit to my blog at:
73 de Phil N8VB
--- In softrock40@..., "Phil Covington" <p.covington@g...>
wrote:
Hi Phil,
I think that you are correct that we could eliminate the signal
integrating capcitor. One of the circuits that I have been playing
with does exacly as you have described - no C and an active opamp LPF
following it. It is a single switch being driven by a 50 ohm source.
The output of the switch feeds directly into the non-inverting input
of the op amp. If the op amp's feedback resistor is 200 ohms then the
conversion loss of the single switch circuit is exactly equal to what
you get with the single switch circuit using the "sampling capacitor".
This is for a 25% duty cycle clock. If I increase the duty cycle to
50% the loss now decreases. Obviously, the duty cycle of the clock is
changing the output impedance of the switch as seen by the opamp. I
am going to play with it more and report the results.
Hope you had a nice trip.
73 de Phil N8VB
--- In softrock40@..., pvharman@a... wrote:
Phil,
I have built a model of the single switch mixer and get the same
result. The
conversion loss is lowest when the on time is 25%.
I'm curently working on a mathematical model of the mixer to
determine the
reason for this. Going to work on this on the plane home but I have
a feeling
that we may be able to eliminate the C after the switch and use the
amplifier
as a LPF to remove the sum component.
Phil... VU2/VK6APH
Quoting Phil Covington <p.covington@g...>:
--- In softrock40@..., KD5NWA <KD5NWA@c...> wrote:
Are you emulating real switches or perfect instantaneous switches?
I have models for both ideal and real.
The reason is fairly simple, real switches do not turn on and off
instantaneously, if you have switches turn on while another turns
from on to off, the timing difference will cause the switches to
have
a short circuit for a brief period. By having less than 25% on
the
waveform you are insuring that the switches are all off before
turning one on, and thereby avoid that brief short.
If it were only that simple...
For example in the modeled QSD circuit that I am using, even if both
switches are on at the same time there is no "short circuit".
As a matter of fact, let's just forget about the other switch
and deal
with the case of ONE switch and ONE sample integrating capacitor.
This removes any discussion on switch turn on/off times causing
overlap/short circuits. For even this circuit the simulation
seems to
indicate that a 20-25% on time for the sampling clock is best.
This would translate to 20-25nS on time, 75-80nS off time ratio on a
100 nS period clock (10MHz).
Obviously this has something to do with the integration time of the
sampling capacitor and I am sure there is a mathematical equation
somewhere that predicts this. It is basically a sample and hold
circuit.
73 de Phil N8VB
P.S. LOL... I hope I know the difference between real and ideal
components after 26+ years in the field :-)
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