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From: Joe Gwinn <joegwinn@comcast.net>
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Subject: Re: Interesting reading about spread-spectrum, also for on-board designs
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On Fri, 14 Jun 2024 07:55:14 -0700, john larkin <jl@650pot.com> wrote:

>On Fri, 14 Jun 2024 07:43:53 GMT, Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid>
>wrote:
>
>>Interesting reading about spread-spectrum, also for on-board designs:
>> https://www.electronicdesign.com/technologies/power/article/55041243/monolithic-power-systems-choosing-the-proper-parameters-in-frequency-spread-spectrum-fss-design
>
>That's cool, except for the usual dreadful fake pcb image.
>
>We have a bunch of switchers that use our own FPGAs as the
>controllers, and I need to start up a project to make them
>spread-spectrum.
>
>We don't want the ss modulation to show up in the DC outputs as ripple
>or anything audible.

Standard issue in radar systems.

Take the FFT of the ss modulation and develop a pseudo-random sequence
generator which shows no structure in the spectrum.

Joe Gwinn