On Mon, 27 Jan 2014 11:30:37 -0500, Phil Hobbs
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pcdhSpamM...@electrooptical.net> wrote:
>On 01/27/2014 11:27 AM, John Larkin wrote:
>> On Mon, 27 Jan 2014 10:18:27 -0500, Michael Black <
et...@ncf.ca> wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon, 27 Jan 2014, RobertMacy wrote:
>>>
>>>> This is a simple switched capacitor filter made by National. Would somebody
>>>> send me a copy, or at least provide a URL that HAS it!!! and not datasheet or
>>>> alldata crap! If AppNote available that too please.
>>>>
>>> Have you got the part number right? National's first generation filter
>>> like that had some other prefix (I can't remember what, I'd know the minute I
>>> saw it). I'm thinking "MFC" but I don't know why. It didn't start
>>> with National's traditional prefix, "LM". Maybe later they used some other
>>> prefix, but I'd double check.
>>
>> National's classic switched-cap filter was the MF10, metal-gate CMOS. There was
>> a later poly-gate version, can't remember the part number.
>>
>
>The LMF100. Nice part if you needed to do anything fancy and low SNR
>was okay. I used it to make a SSB mixer once, and it worked great.
>
>> Overall, switched-cap filters weren't all that great. OK for some apps, but they
>> were really noisy, and aliased anything available, including power supply crud.
>>
>> I once designed a double-conversion superhet FSK modem full of MF10s, for
>> Reuters' landline newswire service. Sold a few before PCs and the Internet made
>> the classic newswire thing obsolete.
>
>The clock-tunable thing was pretty convenient for some jobs, especially
>back when tight-tolerance capacitors were expensive.
>
Yeah, the modem did any channel, and any one of three baud rate/bandwidths, with
just dip switches. The older stuff had plug-in LC filters.