1/x function with op amps or multiplier or something else...

Better approach, avoid timing error due to using "Discharge" pin, run symmetric...

...Jim Thompson

and the HFA3101 and its friends.

On 18/04/2016 11:33, piglet wrote:

Finally made a simulation showing PWM multiplier inside a servo:

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I am a spice newbie, and hope one of the spice wizards will give tips on speeding up simulation. I think the servo action makes LT very slow to converge on a result?

piglet

Did you miss my post that produces V-to-Period...

Then run this output thru an F-to-V to get the 1/V function.

LTspice has many issues with initial convergence. Try setting Solver=Alternate and adding "Spice Directive"...

.options plotwinsize=0

But don't hold your breath, LTspice still chokes. ...Jim Thompson

New and improved Voltage-to-Period Converter...

See "Voltage-to-Period_Converter_555_4.png" on the S.E.D/Schematics Page of my website. ...Jim Thompson

Thanks Jim, will try spice tricks. Yes I saw your 555 solution and I think it is pretty neat. What F to V would you suggest feeding it with - just so we offer the OP and end-to-end solution?

piglet

That's a chip function that's available off-the-shelf, but to keep the ignorati braying, I'll try making one from a 555 >:-}

...Jim Thompson

Yes, and I was thinking an LM2907 kind of thing a bit overkill. Can you do something minimalist with just a C and Q and arrange the transistor temp coeff in the F-V to cancel with Vbe TCs in the current sources around the 555 ? :>

piglet

There's an ultra-simple "tachometer" F-to-V circuit using one transistor, one diode, two capacitors and one resistor, but it has a

I used it a gezillion years ago in a smog control element for automobiles.

I'll see if I can adapt it.

(The effect of the Vbe TC's in the current mirrors is pretty small... and it's trivial to add an OpAmp to make it approach zero, so I think it's better to make the F-to-V TC zero as well.) ...Jim Thompson

I considered doing it with a 555, but it takes too many parts. The following is the more accurate equivalent of the transistor, diode, 2 capacitors, resistor method... using an OpAmp, a comparator, and 2 analog switches...

...Jim Thompson

Yes, an opamp, a comparator and analog switch is a potent combination, that is what I used to implement the whole of the OP's challenge ...

Seriously, an opamp, comparator and set of switches would make a good analog building block kind of chip, does anyone make one?

piglet

Yes. It's called an F-V converter >:-} ...Jim Thompson

Sure, but aren't off-the-shelf F-V chips all prewired so the switches are committed to F-V/V-F ? So cannot be configured to do PWM reciprocal (like this thread) or PWM square root taking (as we discussed last year) or any of all the other things a building block with uncommitted opamp, comparator and switches could.

My dream chip would have these pins: opampin-, opampin+, opampout cmpin-, cmpin+ switch1 com, switch1 no, switch1 nc switch2 com, switch2 no, switch2 nc

the comparator output commutates both analog switches and need not be bonded out to a pin. Say 3-16V operation at a few hundred uA, rail to rail or at least cmr includes one of the rails, comparator zippy to a few 00s ns delay and slower opamp say GBW 1Mhz with nA Ib and mV or two Vos. Basically an updated LM392+4053 combo?

piglet

The AD630 was the last chip that I can think of that worked like that. Thing is, there are lots of excellent fast MUX chips with really low charge injection available for cheap these days, which is what used to be the parlour trick.

So you might just as well use jellybeans and save a lot of money.

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

Turns out you can just "smoooosh" the function into a single 555, plus a quad of OpAmps, plus some current mirrors, see...

"MinusOneOverV_555.pdf"

on the S.E.D/Schematics Page of my website.

Someone needs to make current mirrors on a chip ;-) ...Jim Thompson

I could design that for you... for a nominal NRE >:-} ...Jim Thompson

Well, there's the REF200 if you don't mind 'extras';

If you saturate the inputs (only takes a volt) on an OTA, you get a kind of current mirror. Input is diode-clamped to negative rail, but you can choose the output to be source or sink, and compliance is good.

Didn't TI advertise a three-terminal current mirror line some years ago? It had several ratios available, but all NPN (current-sink) polarity. I never saw one, just literature...

The TL011 series--a fave of mine, now long gone (*sniff*). They had 1:2, 1:

I used to use them for stuff like 5X current multipliers. I still have some , but there's no point in using them.

Cheers

Phil Hobbs