Hi …. and now I have a copy :)
Bob > On Oct 22, 2020, at 6:12 PM, Attila Kinali <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Thu, 22 Oct 2020 13:29:07 -0400 > Bob kb8tq <[email protected]> wrote: > >> There is a paper running around behind the IEEE paywall by Collins that >> details >> one approach to designing multi-stage limiters. There are other ways to do >> it. >> The key is to not go to crazy all in one stage. > > <self-advertisment> > You can find a modern, more accurate version of Collins result > in [1]. While most formulas in there give the noise up to some > proportionality factor, all the information to calculate the noise > level is in there. The big difference to Collins here is that this > result is exact if you use all harmonics up to infinity (which is > easy) or can break up with a known error if you don't want to go > that far. Collins uses a trapezoid approximation throughout and thus > over-estimates the noise contribution of low-gain stages, which > are the first stages thus contribute to a relatively large error > in the calculation. > </self-advertisment> > > > Attila Kinali > > [1] "A Physical Sine-to-Square Converter Noise Model" > by yours truly, IFCS 2018 > http://people.mpi-inf.mpg.de/~adogan/pubs/IFCS2018_comparator_noise.pdf > > -- > <JaberWorky> The bad part of Zurich is where the degenerates > throw DARK chocolate at you. > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe, go to > http://lists.febo.com/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts_lists.febo.com > and follow the instructions there. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to http://lists.febo.com/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts_lists.febo.com and follow the instructions there.
