Re: Tri to Sine diode shaper

On Wed, 11 Jun 2008 09:33:12 +1000, Mike Kendall
<mikekendall@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>Can someone please direct me to a passive circuit using breakpoint
>diodes, preferably no more than six, to shape a sine wave from a 5Vpp
>triangle? The available power source is single supply 6V.
>
>I did check the net, but had no luck with finding a basic approach.
>
>Mike Kendall

Patent:3737642 shows one way to do it.

General question comes to mind... has anyone written a program that
would derive the "best" piecewise linear fit to a function, f(x), for
a given number of segments?

                                        ...Jim Thompson
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