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Introduction To Electronics Workbench: - What Is It?

The document introduces Electronics Workbench, a suite of programs used to simulate electronic circuits before physical construction. It provides instructions on using Multisim, the circuit simulation program, to design and test a simple low-pass filter with a resistor and capacitor. The user places components, connects a function generator and oscilloscope, and runs a simulation to observe the output voltage waveform on the oscilloscope as the input frequency is varied. Key parameters like the circuit's characteristic frequency and how it relates to the filter's cutoff point are also explained.

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Introduction To Electronics Workbench: - What Is It?

The document introduces Electronics Workbench, a suite of programs used to simulate electronic circuits before physical construction. It provides instructions on using Multisim, the circuit simulation program, to design and test a simple low-pass filter with a resistor and capacitor. The user places components, connects a function generator and oscilloscope, and runs a simulation to observe the output voltage waveform on the oscilloscope as the input frequency is varied. Key parameters like the circuit's characteristic frequency and how it relates to the filter's cutoff point are also explained.

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Introduction to Electronics Workbench




What is it?
Electronics Workbench is a suite of programs that enable one to design, simulate, and even create
schematic layouts of printed circuit boards. Within Electronics Workbench, Multisimis a program
that you can use to simulate circuits before you actually build them in the lab. This short
introduction is intended to familiarize you with the basics of the software by designing a low-pass
filter (like the one from the 1
st
lab). You will later be asked to design a high-pass filter for the next
lab using Multisim.


Simulating a low-pass filter:
- To begin the tutorial, after launching the program, first take a look at various buttons and menu
items in the main page. Youll find the component menu on top of the page; this contains all
the electronic components you are familiar with (and many that you are not!). The
instrument menu to the right of the page contains many of the devices that you know, such as
power sources, oscilloscope, function generator, etc.

- Using the component menu, place a resistor, a capacitor, and a ground anywhere in the page.
Note that double clicking a component allows you to change the relevant physical value of that
component (in this case, the resistance or the capacitance). Choose R=10k and C=0.1F.

- Using the instrument menu, place a function generator and an oscilloscope on the page. Double
clicking allows you to change the settings on these instruments. Set the function generator to
deliver a sinusoidal signal of about 100Hz.

- Now, place the cursor on the right end of the resistor and join it to the capacitor with a wire. Do
the same thing to join the function generator to the circuit, and the oscilloscope to look at the
output voltage (voltage across the capacitor). Your circuit should look more or less like this:



















R1
10k
C1
0.1uF
XFG1
XSC1
A
B
Ext Trig
+
+
_
_
+
_
II

- This circuit is now ready for simulation. Under the Simulate menu choose Run and then
double click on the oscilloscope. You should now see a trace of the output voltage. Vary the
oscilloscope settings to get a feel for the instrument. Now double click on the function generator
and vary the frequency to see the changes in the output.

- If you want to make physical changes to the circuit, you will have to stop the simulation,
make the changes, and then run the simulation again for those changes to take effect.

As you know, the gain and phase of the output in this circuit is given by:

Gain =
2
1
1 ( ) R C +
Phase = tan( ) Arc R C
The characteristic frequency of this circuit is
0
1
RC
= . This is the frequency at which the output
voltage falls to ~ 0.71 of the input value. This is an important parameter because power delivered is
related to the square of the voltage, which means that at
0
the output power will be
2
(0.71) 0.5 ; of
the input power. In other words, at
0
, about half of the input power is filtered out by our circuit.
Also, as you can verify, at
0
, the phase of the output will be behind the input by 45 degrees.

- You should check to make sure that the characteristic frequency that you calculate from the
above formula matches the results of this simulation. One way of doing this is to simply look at
the output voltage as you vary the input frequency and note when the output voltage drops to
71% of the input value.

- A second (and better way) is to use an instrument called Bode Plotter from the instrument
menu. Place this instrument in your circuit and simulate the circuit again. The Bode plotter will
create a log-log plot (similar to the one you did in the 1
st
lab) in real time. You will then be able
to simply read off the characteristic frequency from this plot as the point at which the transfer
function (y-axis) drops to 3dB. You can also see the phase shift in the output signal with the
Bode plotter.













R.A. Mir

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