This document provides the objectives, pre-lab questions, and procedure for Lab #4 of the ECE 128L Electronics I course. The lab focuses on diode applications, including:
1. Designing and simulating a diode OR gate circuit.
2. Analyzing the output of a diode clipper circuit with different sinusoidal inputs to understand its limiting behavior.
3. Examining the DC and AC components of the output from a full-wave rectifier circuit using diodes.
This document provides the objectives, pre-lab questions, and procedure for Lab #4 of the ECE 128L Electronics I course. The lab focuses on diode applications, including:
1. Designing and simulating a diode OR gate circuit.
2. Analyzing the output of a diode clipper circuit with different sinusoidal inputs to understand its limiting behavior.
3. Examining the DC and AC components of the output from a full-wave rectifier circuit using diodes.
This document provides the objectives, pre-lab questions, and procedure for Lab #4 of the ECE 128L Electronics I course. The lab focuses on diode applications, including:
1. Designing and simulating a diode OR gate circuit.
2. Analyzing the output of a diode clipper circuit with different sinusoidal inputs to understand its limiting behavior.
3. Examining the DC and AC components of the output from a full-wave rectifier circuit using diodes.
This document provides the objectives, pre-lab questions, and procedure for Lab #4 of the ECE 128L Electronics I course. The lab focuses on diode applications, including:
1. Designing and simulating a diode OR gate circuit.
2. Analyzing the output of a diode clipper circuit with different sinusoidal inputs to understand its limiting behavior.
3. Examining the DC and AC components of the output from a full-wave rectifier circuit using diodes.
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California State University, Fresno
Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
ECE 128L – Electronics I Lab # 4: Diode Applications – Part II
Objective:
To become familiar with diode circuits, such as diode logic gates and clippers.
Pre-lab:
1. Use two 1N4004 diodes to design a diode OR gate in which the maximum input current, |Iin|, is less than 5 mA. Assume logic HIGH voltage = 5 V, logic LOW voltage = 0 V, and the cut-in voltage for the diode = 0.6 V. Show all your work.
2. Verify your design by simulation. Plot the voltage transfer function by varying the input voltage on Pin A while holding the voltage at Pin B to 0 V. Verify that the maximum current is within specification. Iin A Vo B Figure 1
3. Simulate the circuit shown in Figure 2:
a. Use a 10 VPP, 0 V offset, and 100 Hz sinusoidal voltage source. b. Perform a transient analysis for 250 ms in increments of 50 μs c. Plot the input and output voltages (versus time) on the same graph and include it in your pre-lab.
Figure 2
4. Consider the diode circuit shown in Figure 3:
a. Use a 20 VPP, 0 V offset, and 100 Hz sinusoidal voltage source. b. Perform a transient analysis for 10 sec in increments of 0.2 sec. c. Plot the input and output voltages (versus time) on the same graph and include it in your pre-lab.
1 Figure 3
Procedure:
Part I – Diode OR Gate
1. Build the OR gate you designed in the pre-lab. Verify its operation by checking the output voltage for the four possible input combinations. 2. Specify the voltage values that correspond to logic HIGH and logic LOW.
Part II – Diode Clipper
1. Build the circuit shown in Figure 2.
2. Obtain a plot of the output waveform. What does this circuit do? 3. Obtain a plot of the output waveform with a 100 Hz, 0.8 VPP sinusoidal input. Comment on the plot. 4. Return the amplitude of the function generator to 10 VPP. 5. Remove one of the diodes from your limiter and observe the output. What part of the signal is being limited? Why? 6. Now reverse the polarity of the remaining diode in the circuit. (Turn it around). What part of the signal is being limited now? Why?
Part III – Diode Circuit
1. Connect the circuit shown in Figure 3, but without the load resistor RL. 2. Apply a 20 Vpp, 100 Hz sinusoid from the signal generator at the input and measure the resulting dc output voltage with the oscilloscope. 3. Now with the oscilloscope on AC coupling, increase the voltage sensitivity in an attempt to measure the amplitude of the ripple superimposed on the dc output level. 4. Connect RL to the output and repeat the measurements done in parts b and c above. 5. Obtain a plot of the output waveform. 6. In the presence of RL, discuss the causes of the ripple in the output. 7. Explain the function of this circuit.
