From: Winfield Hill on
M.Randelzhofer wrote...
>
> "Dirk Bruere at NeoPax" asked...
>> There are a number of circuits on the Net to do this. For example:
>> http://sound.westhost.com/project85.htm
>> In Fig 5 should that IC be a 74HC04 as stated, or 74HCU04?
>
> In the following schematics page 17 upper left corner, you see a working
> solution (I have the eval board, its working nicely in coax SPDIF mode).
> http://focus.ti.com/lit/an/slea035a/slea035a.pdf
>
> MIKE

It's interesting that TI picks an 'U04. An 74LVC2GU04
to be exact. They do use this simple ac-coupled-circuit
in a PurePath Digital reference design for their rather
sophisticated custom silicon for high-performance audio.


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- Win
From: Jim Thompson on
On 8 Jun 2010 05:52:41 -0700, Winfield Hill
<Winfield_member(a)newsguy.com> wrote:

>M.Randelzhofer wrote...
>>
>> "Dirk Bruere at NeoPax" asked...
>>> There are a number of circuits on the Net to do this. For example:
>>> http://sound.westhost.com/project85.htm
>>> In Fig 5 should that IC be a 74HC04 as stated, or 74HCU04?
>>
>> In the following schematics page 17 upper left corner, you see a working
>> solution (I have the eval board, its working nicely in coax SPDIF mode).
>> http://focus.ti.com/lit/an/slea035a/slea035a.pdf
>>
>> MIKE
>
> It's interesting that TI picks an 'U04. An 74LVC2GU04
> to be exact. They do use this simple ac-coupled-circuit
> in a PurePath Digital reference design for their rather
> sophisticated custom silicon for high-performance audio.

'U04' Variants have been used like this "forever". Some loonies have
even been known to use them as amplifiers :-)

...Jim Thompson
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From: Winfield Hill on
Jim Thompson wrote...
>
> On 8 Jun 2010 Winfield Hill wrote:
>
>> M.Randelzhofer wrote...
>>>
>>> "Dirk Bruere at NeoPax" asked...
>>>> There are a number of circuits on the Net to do this.
>>>> For example: http://sound.westhost.com/project85.htm
>>>> In Fig 5 should that IC be a 74HC04 as stated, or 74HCU04?
>>>
>>> In the following schematics page 17 upper left corner, you see
>>> a working solution (I have the eval board, its working nicely
>>> in coax SPDIF mode).
>>> http://focus.ti.com/lit/an/slea035a/slea035a.pdf
>>>
>>> MIKE
>>
>> It's interesting that TI picks an 'U04. An 74LVC2GU04
>> to be exact. They do use this simple ac-coupled-circuit
>> in a PurePath Digital reference design for their rather
>> sophisticated custom silicon for high-performance audio.
>
> 'U04' Variants have been used like this "forever". Some
> loonies have even been known to use them as amplifiers :-)

Right, I'm well aware of that. Old stuff, dating back to
the 60s when I started using cmos, or COS/MOS as RCA called
it back then. But the question was about the viability of
non-U types for this, do you have an opinion about that?
Not what's naturally best, but whether it'll work OK.


--
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- Win
From: Jim Thompson on
On 8 Jun 2010 10:18:55 -0700, Winfield Hill
<Winfield_member(a)newsguy.com> wrote:

>Jim Thompson wrote...
>>
>> On 8 Jun 2010 Winfield Hill wrote:
>>
>>> M.Randelzhofer wrote...
>>>>
>>>> "Dirk Bruere at NeoPax" asked...
>>>>> There are a number of circuits on the Net to do this.
>>>>> For example: http://sound.westhost.com/project85.htm
>>>>> In Fig 5 should that IC be a 74HC04 as stated, or 74HCU04?
>>>>
>>>> In the following schematics page 17 upper left corner, you see
>>>> a working solution (I have the eval board, its working nicely
>>>> in coax SPDIF mode).
>>>> http://focus.ti.com/lit/an/slea035a/slea035a.pdf
>>>>
>>>> MIKE
>>>
>>> It's interesting that TI picks an 'U04. An 74LVC2GU04
>>> to be exact. They do use this simple ac-coupled-circuit
>>> in a PurePath Digital reference design for their rather
>>> sophisticated custom silicon for high-performance audio.
>>
>> 'U04' Variants have been used like this "forever". Some
>> loonies have even been known to use them as amplifiers :-)
>
> Right, I'm well aware of that. Old stuff, dating back to
> the 60s when I started using cmos, or COS/MOS as RCA called
> it back then. But the question was about the viability of
> non-U types for this, do you have an opinion about that?
> Not what's naturally best, but whether it'll work OK.

It'll function. The problem I have with it is: an 'HC04 is
effectively THREE 'HCU04's in series, with size scaling for the
gate-source capacitance build-up. So a low-pass feed-back biases at
considerable rail-to-rail current.

It'll function, but I don't recommend it.

For my custom stuff, where such an animal is absolutely needed, I add
current sources in the respective (device) sources to limit bias
build-up.

In a recent "monster" actuator driver I resorted to inverters where
one side was a mirror until "swifty" speeds could be assured.

...Jim Thompson
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| Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC's and Discrete Systems | manus |
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| Voice:(480)460-2350 Fax: Available upon request | Brass Rat |
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