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Old 4th Dec 2017, 1:57 pm   #36
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Arrow Re: Attenuators - theory and the design of.

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Originally Posted by julie_m View Post
Is there a good reason for not using steps of 1, 2, 4, 8, 16 and 32dB?
Yes: in practice, attempting to achieve an accurate attenuation of more that 20 dB in a simple switched attenuator design is difficult, on account of signal leakage around that 32 dB section.

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