Measurements & Electronic Instruments Laboratory Experiment Manual

Department of Electrical Engineering, I.I.T. Kharagpur

Experiment No. : 10
V-f and f-V Conversion using LM331

Objective: Voltage to Frequency and Frequency to Voltage conversion using

LM331 and study the performance of the same.

331 is a precision voltage to frequency converter having following important

features:
1. Operates on single +15V power supply.
2. Frequency range 1Hz to 100Hz.
3. Input voltage range -0.2V to +3V.

The pin connection for LM331 is shown in Fig.1

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V – f Converter
Connect the circuit as shown in Fig-2. The frequency output is given by:
𝑉𝑖𝑛 𝑅𝑠 1
𝑓𝑜𝑢𝑡 = . .
2.09𝑉 𝑅𝐿 𝑅𝑡 𝐶𝑡

Test the performance:-

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f – V Converter

Connect the circuit as shown in Fig-3 and test the performance.

The voltage output is given by:

𝑅𝐿
𝑉𝑜𝑢𝑡 = 𝑓𝑖𝑛 × 2.09𝑣 × × (𝑅𝑡 𝐶𝑡 )
𝑅𝑠

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