The not-all-that-low distortion sine wave oscillator in a faster simulating version

Dec 18, 2024 Last reply: 1 year ago 15 Replies

I've been playing with the circuit, and have got rid of one op amp, which made the simulation run much faster, but didn't help the distortion performance.



Swapping the LT1115 for the LME49710 speeded up the simulation a bit more, but didn't make any difference to the distortion either. A few of the ferrite beads have gone too.



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It seems to like to squeg for me (LTSpice 17.0.37)

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I've seen that happen, but only when the one of the connections has come unstuck. The route through WordPad to here and on to your own .asc file can screw up the schematic.

The amplitude control feedback loop - through the four-pole maximally flat low pass filter around U6 and U7 through the integrator around U5 does include the 68k resistor at R10 to provide enough phase lead to keep it stable.

I plot V(out) and the control voltage V(fet-gate), and V(fet-gate) starts off at 0V and drops below -3.862V within 5msec after which V(out) starts building up. The amplitude control system system kicks in at

20msec and by 41msec has got V(fet-gate) back to -3.862V where V(out) starts to fall back, and eventually undershoots, but the ringing is damped, and the system is stable after about 0.5 sec.

Post the .asc file you ran.

When I was looking at the circuit I realised that I'd left out R31, and got R7 slightly wrong at the FET gate. It doesn't make an obvious difference, but here's the corrected .asc file.

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"Bill Sloman" snipped-for-privacy@ieee.org wrote in message news:vjtgnp$24ubg$ snipped-for-privacy@dont-email.me...

I got a simulation speed of about 30us/s so I didn't wait the nearly 4 days it would take to complete. I did an FFT on the first few cycles and it does look 100dB down up to 1.5MHz.

But what's the point when the circuit below is comfortably 120dB down in simulation using less than half the number of components?

It requires only a single rail and if 60dB will meet your needs then a single 9V battery is fine.

All the components are doing what I want them to do and I know what they all do.

To attempt do any better in simulation I'd replace D1 with a precision rectifier at 0 and 180 degrees and maybe 90 and 270 too.

If building this for real then ten turn trimmers would be used for: R14 2.2k R3 68 ohm R16 100k And I'd also want R19 or part of it variable.

I wish LTSpice had a "Do you want to fix apparent line wraps Y/N". That shouldn't be hard.

Also is there any way in LTSpice to find a component? What I mean is let's say you have a schematic like Bill's schematic and you know that R17 is there somewhere but you don't know where.

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It rans at 68msec/sec for me and takes a couple of minutes to run the full ten seconds.

Or think you do. You explanations haven't been all that clear.

Why a ten turn trimmer?

Beckman ten-turn precision potentionmeters were designed to be used with turns-counting dials. 19mm trimmers ran around twenty turns, but weren't all that precisely settable.

First define a line wrap in terms that you can program. It's a carriage return and a line feed, but so is a real new line.

Inspection works fine for me. Professional circuit diagrams tend to get re-numbered before they are released to production so the numbers run from left to right across the sheet in bands, then from top to bottom as you moved down from the top band to the bottom band.

It's on the non-inverting input of U7.

"Bill Sloman" snipped-for-privacy@ieee.org wrote in message news:vk00um$2i900$ snipped-for-privacy@dont-email.me...

I used the circuit from your third post. One op amp had to be moved down a bit into position and then I hit simulate. To be sure we're talking about the same circuit I've reposted it below. I'm using LTSpice 24.0.12 with no new model updates available as of this post.

Well it's true that most, perhaps all, of the designs I've ever done used components I didn't design myself. Even discrete circuits. So I have to rely on either what the data sheet says or what tests with a real circuit say. In this case I don't have a real circuit so I have to rely on LTSpice.

Can be 100 turn if you want. The point is only that fine adjustment would be a good idea.

There are reasons why Notepad++ has an EOL conversion option Bill but never mind.

What would you do when a change is required which requires an additional component such as an additional resistor or capacitor?

And it was just an example.

Repost of simulated circuit:

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R270 WINDOW 0 27 56 VTop 2 WINDOW 3 5 56 VBottom 2 SYMATTR InstName R7 SYMATTR Value 215 SYMATTR SpiceLine tol=1 SYMBOL res -1456 -1712 R0 WINDOW 0 43 37 Left 2 WINDOW 3 47 73 Left 2 SYMATTR InstName R29 SYMATTR Value 220 SYMATTR SpiceLine tol=0.1 SYMBOL res -1504 -1968 R0 WINDOW 0 43 37 Left 2 WINDOW 3 47 73 Left 2 SYMATTR InstName R30 SYMATTR Value 13.3k SYMATTR SpiceLine tol=0.1 SYMBOL Opamps\\LT1115 -656 -1504 R0 SYMATTR InstName U3 SYMBOL Opamps\\LT1115 -176 -1584 R0 SYMATTR InstName U8 SYMBOL res -1632 -1968 R0 WINDOW 0 43 37 Left 2 WINDOW 3 47 73 Left 2 SYMATTR InstName R31 SYMATTR Value 47k SYMATTR SpiceLine tol=0.1 TEXT -1424 -776 Left 2 !.MODEL BAS70L D \n+ IS = 3.22E-9 \n+ N = 1.018 \n+ BV = 77 \n+ IBV = 1.67E-7 \n+ RS = 20.89 \n+ CJO =

1.608E-12 \n+ VJ = 0.3891 \n+ M = 0.3683 \n+ FC = 0.5 \n+ EG = 0.69 \n+ XTI = 2 \n.ENDS TEXT -336 -528 Left 2 ;R2 a,b,c, Vishay Beschlag ACAS06S0830372P1AT precision 10k resistor array \n R1a, R1b Maxim MAX5492LB10000+T 10K resistive divider in a SOT-23-5 package TEXT -720 -464 Left 2 !.MODEL MMBF4391 NJF VTO=-4.6 BETA=0.02779 LAMBDA=0.00595 RD=1 RS=1 IS=1e-14 CGD=14p CGS=10.5p PB=1 B=1 KF=1e-18 AF=1 FC=0.5 mfg=Motorola TEXT -1112 -464 Left 2 !.tran 0 10s 0s startup

And I'm using LTSpice XVII(x64)(17.0.37.0) up-dated recently.

I finally got your version to work. As you say, U1 had to be moved into place, but I also had to change C10 on the output of U4. I'd specified the capacitance as 3.3u. but the "u" symbol had vanished. When I specified the capacitance as 3300n everything worked fine.

Lots of turns don't always equate to fine setability. The screw will try to move the brush along the resistive element, but the brush tends to move in fits and starts. I once specified a rather expensive Vishay trimmer which had a split brush that moved more smoothly, and we knocked about twenty minutes off the setting up time for a rather cranky circuit which more than paid for the extra cost of the fancy Vishay trimmer,

Word salad. Of course there are reasons, but you'd indicate what they are if you were trying to be helpful. LTspice does seem to have a limited numbers of words that can be put at the start of a line, and it baulks if it finds anything else at the start of a new line. If it treated that condition as indicative of a line wrap and deleted the preceding new line character we might get somewhere but the fact that it doesn't suggests that the situation might be more complicated than that.

I wasn't responsible for keeping production drawings up to date, and the people who were had a bunch of conflicting priorities to reconcile.

The service engineer who travelled internationally to keep the machines working were forceful personalities who needed the schematics to be rapidly intelligible. I got told off by them from time to time, and got congratulated once or twice.

Of your capacity to make an unhelpful meal of a minor problem.

C10 is definitely 3.3u here. I tried changing it to 3300n but still less than 30us/s when I start the simulation.

Yes I agree. You might easily have the kinds of problems which were solved with anti backlash couplings in the days of drive cords and tuning capacitors.

Exactly. So it shouldn't be hard to have an option (Do you want to treat lines beginning with unknown as wrapped lines Y/N) when it opens a schematic. Line wraps may be CR LF but they can also be only CR or only LF which is why I frequently use the EOL conversion in Notepad++ when moving files between Linux and Windows.

Ok that's one way to avoid the question.

LOL

The long multi-turn trimpots are hard to adjust and expensive, and are no better than single-turns for settability.

Single-turns have much lower HF parasitics too.

Yes particularly if the resistive element is the same length, it may as well be single-turn. Single-turn also has the advantage that you can see where it's set before you adjust it. Multi-turn is usually enclosed so hard to know where it's set before adjustment.

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So I'd probably go for good quality open single-turn if I ever build the 120dB circuit.

The rectangular multi-turn trimpots have a lot of backlash. A good single is actually more settable. A heap faster too.

We do seem to be using different versions of LTSpice. There are subtle ways the simulation can get screwed up and slowed down. John May emphasised that using trapezoidal integration rather the modified trapezoidal or Gear made a positive difference when you were worried about distortion.

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I know what I'd do, but I don't have background information to give a particularly useful response. Everybody has their own opinions on what circuit diagrams ought to look like, and companies need to get their circuit diagrams into a form where the engineers and various sorts of technicians can read them easily, but there's a lot of variation between companies, and I know that US companies made different choices from the UK and Dutch companies that I worked for.

Some of them are quite lot better.

Sometimes true, and sometimes relevant.

Not always true.

There was a line of multi-turn trimming potentiometers with a clear plastic top cover which did let you see where the brush was. Cambridge Instruments bought quite a lot of them. If you thought about what you were doing it wasn't all that much of an advantage.

DSMCZ seems to be an example of a multi-turn trimmer with a translucent case.

Bad choice.

The resistive element in a modern multi-turn trimmer is just a long thin film resistor on an alumina substrate - there's not a lot of RF parastic stray capacitance and inductance in that.

Wound element potentiometers were a lot worse.

Not a wise choice.

Sometimes.

You should be able cope with the backlash. A good multi-turn pontentiometer can be set a lot more precisely than any single turn part, but you have to know what you are buying to get good parts.

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