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On Thu, 25 Apr 2024 12:28:42 -0400, Phil Hobbs
<pcdhSpamMeSenseless@electrooptical.net> wrote:

>Hi, all,
>
>I'm in a bit of a rush, doing revs to a testing board for a prototype 
>lidar ASIC that turns out to be..., um..., well....  Let's just say it's 
>a _tiny_bit_delicate_ electrically.  Yeah, just a little delicate, 
>that's it. (Not our design or our nickel, fortunately.)
>
>It runs on a single supply, so the only sequencing issues are with the 
>signal pins. Thus the test board is going to bring up V_DD smoothly and 
>not too slowly: a monotonic edge of about 100 us.  While that's going 
>on, all the inputs and outputs will see 100k ohms to ground. (All the 
>enables are positive-true, which makes this easier.)
>
>The digital pins are all inputs, so they're just buffered with 
>SN74LVC1G125s (tri-state Schmitt noninverting), with the aforementioned 
>100k to ground on their outputs.
>
>The analog outputs don't have much drive, but can go pretty fast if you 
>keep the capacitance down.  There are a fair few of them, so I want to 
>mux them down before the op amp buffers (OPA2626es--surprisingly nice 
>chips).
>
>Because we're not made of money, and the test boards aren't ITAR, we're 
>getting them made and stuffed at JLCPCB.  Thus we care a lot about what 
>their tame distributor LCSC has in stock.
>
>They're fairly light on analog muxes, it turns out.  Going through what 
>they do have, I was reminded just how awful the capacitance of old-timey 
>mux parts is--way over 100 pF at the common pin of an 8-1, blech.
>
>They do have these very nice-looking USB switches, type PI3USB14-A, for 
>pretty cheap ($0.45 @ 1ea) and in plentiful stock.
>
>They look beautiful--6 ohms R_on, 4 pF C_off typical--but apart from one 
>crosstalk number, the datasheet gives only sketchy hints about their 
>actual analog performance--bandwidth and crosstalk, but nothing about 
>charge injection, switching times, make-before-break, resistance 
>linearity, or distortion.
>
>Has any of you used them for actual analog stuff?
>
>Thanks
>
>Phil Hobbs

We use TS3USB30EDGSR to switch/mux fast signals. We mostly use them as
setup-time switches, things like polarity switching and low/50r source
impedances, things like that, so we haven't explored dynamics much.
They do propagate fast signals nicely.

How about using relays?