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MECE 212: Experiment 2 Objective

This document provides an overview of clipper and clamping circuits. It defines that clipper circuits are used to limit or cut off parts of a waveform to avoid circuit damage. Clamper circuits are used to shift the DC level of a signal. The document includes the circuit diagrams of a typical clipper and clamper circuit. It describes how the clipper circuit clamps the output voltage to not exceed the supply voltage. The clamper circuit prevents the output from dropping below the supply voltage using a diode and capacitor time constant. The experiment objectives are to construct and measure the output waveforms of these clipper and clamper circuits.

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MECE 212: Experiment 2 Objective

This document provides an overview of clipper and clamping circuits. It defines that clipper circuits are used to limit or cut off parts of a waveform to avoid circuit damage. Clamper circuits are used to shift the DC level of a signal. The document includes the circuit diagrams of a typical clipper and clamper circuit. It describes how the clipper circuit clamps the output voltage to not exceed the supply voltage. The clamper circuit prevents the output from dropping below the supply voltage using a diode and capacitor time constant. The experiment objectives are to construct and measure the output waveforms of these clipper and clamper circuits.

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Atlm University Department of Mechatronic Engineering

MECE 212
Experiment 2 Objective
In this experiment, clipper and clamping circuits will be studied.

!heory
Often in the development of electronic circuits it is required that voltages be limited in some manner to avoid circuit damage. Furthermore, the limiting or clipping of voltages can be very useful in the development of wave-shaping circuits. In the circuit below the output voltage can never be greater than 3 . !he ideal diode becomes forward biased at o equal to 3 and this ties the output directly to the 3 supply. !he waveform can be clipped on the negative side by placing the series combination of a diode and power supply in parallel with the diode and power supply already shown.

"lipper "ircuits

#hile clipper circuits are concerned primarily with limiting or cutting off part of the waveform, clampers are used primarily to shift the $" level. For example, if we have a cloc% signal that swings between &v and ' but our application requires a cloc% signal from -' to & , we can provide the proper $" offset with a passive clamper circuit. ( typical clamper circuit is shown below. For this circuit to wor% properly the pulse width needs to be much less than the )" time constant of *& ms. !he input square wave with a frequency of * +,and a pulse width of &.' ms meets this requirement. !he diode and power supply as shown will prevent the output voltage from exceeding 3 .i.e., all of the region above 3 can be viewed as a forbidden region for output voltage/. 0ecause of the time constant requirement the voltage across the capacitor can not change significantly during the pulse width, and after a short transient period the voltage across the capacitor reached a steady state offset value. !he output voltage is simply the input voltage shifted by this steady state offset. (lso, observe

that the pea%-to-peat output voltage is equal to the pea%-to-pea% input voltage. !his is true because the voltage across the capacitor can not change instantaneously and the full change of voltage on the input side of the capacitor will li%ewise be seen on the output side of the capacitor.

"lamping "ircuit

"roce#$re a% "onnect the clipper circuit above. 1easure and observe the output waveform. b% "onstruct the below circuit. 1easure and s%etch the output waveform.

For the input signal . */, use *& p-p, * %,- sine wave and use power supply to provide the battery voltage. 0*2' , 0323 )2*% ohm. $iode2*45&&6

c% 7how the circuit diagrams for clipper circuits, which will provide the clipped output
waveforms as shown below. (ssume a sinusoidal input voltage with a peat-to-pea% value of *3 .

#% "onnect the clamping circuit above. 1easure and observe the output waveform. e% 7how the circuit diagrams for clamper circuits, which will provide the clamped output
waveforms as shown below. (ssume a sinusoidal input voltage with a peat-to-pea% value of *3 .

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