Re: Design Review Volunteers Needed - VTTC Staccato Controller Circuit

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Original poster: "Jim Lux by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <jimlux-at-earthlink-dot-net>

But at the relatively low cost for prototyping a PC board, sometimes, going 
from schematic to board without a breadboard is the way to go. You might 
spend more time fooling with a breadboard (which will have different HF and 
noise characteristics) than you would starting with a PC board.  Especially 
for designs with a fair number of parts (>2 dozen, say), it's easier to cut 
traces and put in jumpers to fix errors in a basically sound design on a PC 
board than it is to wire it up "dead bug" or on perfboard or a protoboard.

The simulation will usually make sure that the circuit topology is right, 
and you can easily fiddle with component values in the PC form (if you're 
good at unsoldering parts without lifting the traces, anyway...)


At 12:48 PM 3/4/2003 -0700, you wrote:
>Original poster: "Mike Veldman by way of Terry Fritz 
><teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <vmike-at-email.ceat.okstate.edu>
>
>Your circuit looks electrically functional, I did'nt see any glaring
>mistakes.  Now my question is, have you prototyped the circuit?  Pardon my
>being an old engineer, but I fail to understand going from circuit diagram
>to board without a working model in my hand.  Simulation software is not a
>sure thing.
>mike