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Electronics II Lab 1 Assignment: Experiment 1: Common Emitter Amplifier

This document provides instructions for the first lab assignment in an electronics course. Students will complete a simulation of a common emitter amplifier circuit using Orcad software. The assignment requires students to properly install Orcad, draw the amplifier circuit schematic, run both AC and DC analyses with various component changes, and comment on the resulting plots with an explanation of what each shows. Students must divide the work over two hardware and two simulation assignments over the term.

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Electronics II Lab 1 Assignment: Experiment 1: Common Emitter Amplifier

This document provides instructions for the first lab assignment in an electronics course. Students will complete a simulation of a common emitter amplifier circuit using Orcad software. The assignment requires students to properly install Orcad, draw the amplifier circuit schematic, run both AC and DC analyses with various component changes, and comment on the resulting plots with an explanation of what each shows. Students must divide the work over two hardware and two simulation assignments over the term.

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Electronics II

Lab 1 assignment
Introduction:
This is the first assignment of the electronics lab. Each lab will be accompanied by a
simulation assignment, there are some notes you must take into consideration when doing those
assignments:

You must divide the work among the team such that by the end of the term, each student
must have worked on 2 hardware circuits and 2 simulation assignments.
The software we are going to use is Orcad Pspice student distribution:
o Orcad 9.1 : http://www.electronics-lab.com/downloads/schematic/013/
o Orcad 16.6* : http://www.electronicslab.com/downloads/schematic/010/index.html
You are not allowed to use any other software.
The first assignment will contain step by step procedures, future assignments will contain
only the required simulations.
A report of the simulation results with brief comments on the results [ each plot must
state what this plot mean]
Students who made the assignment will be asked in the work they have done.

* The assignment description is based on simulation on Orcad 10, therefore it is closer in


interface to Orcad 9 more than Orcad 16.6.
Experiment 1:
Common emitter amplifier:
1. After installing Orcad , you will find a lot of programs installed, open Capture.
2. Create a new project, select Analog or Mixed project

3. Select the schematic page 1 as shown in the figure

4. In the schematic page, you will be required to add parts and connect them together, you
will select add part from the right pallet as shown in the figure, or simply click p
shortcut.

5. We will start by adding the BJT transistor

6. Connect the whole circuit as shown in the figure


a. Capacitors and resistors are found in analog library.
b. Sources are found in the source library

7. Adding the ground is tricky, if you choose the wrong ground, the simulation will not
work, press g or select ground from the right pallet select 0 from source library.
8. It is time to select the simulation type, select create new simulation profile

9. You will choose time domain analysis and enter the following settings ( think about why
we chose those settings)

10. Add voltage probes to the output and input nodes

11. Finally click simulate ( the play button ) , comment on the results.
12. Remove the capacitor C1 and run the simulation again, is this reasonable? why?
13. Add the capacitor C1 back.
14. Replace the sine source with an AC source ( 1V amplitude 0) from the source library.
15. Edit simulation profile to AC analysis

16. Run simulation and comment on the results.


17. Remove the bypass capacitor and run simulation again, comment on the results.
18. Add back the bypass capacitor.
19. Remove the AC source, the coupling capacitor and the bias resistors and add a DC source
as shown in the figure.

20. Edit the simulation profile to DC sweep with the following settings ( the source name is
the name that appears on your schematic )

21. Simulate.

22. Remove the emitter resistor and the bypass capacitor ( emitter connected to ground
directly ).
23. Simulate again. (How can we calculate the gain and the linear region in both cases?)

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