EE 230 Lab Design Lab 3 Report

Report: design – function generator

Lab work done by Jack Temple, Ben Schneider, and Clark Reimers

Lab work date: 4/15/2019-4/29/2019

Report submission date: 4/30/2019

Lab Section: B

Graded by ________________________________________

Score ___________________________________

Introduction/Design Summary
Our circuit consists of three basic parts: the filter, the volume control, and the amplifier. Instead
of integrating the volume control into the amplifier, we opted for the simpler and in our
experience more stable solution of keeping them as discrete segments. Firstly, the input signal
passes through a pass-band filter with corner frequencies at 100Hz and 15kHz. The output
voltage of the filter is then passed through a unity-gain buffer to keep the volume resistors from
interacting with the frequency response of the filter. A simple voltage divider between a 1kΩ
resistor and 10kΩ potentiometer allows the voltage from the filter to be varied from 0-90.91% of
the filtered amplitude. The voltage over the potentiometer serves as the input to the amplifier.
We opted to configure the circuit this way so that the output can be completely cut off, even
though it introduces up to a 9.09% drop in the signal amplitude. Lastly, the signal passes through
a non-inverting amplifier with a gain of 21x before output. Each channel contains an identical
circuit for each half. The same signal wave was used for testing and in our photos below, but
independent waves could be used as the two halves don’t interact with each other. We used an
LMC660 on +/-8V power supplies for our two amplifiers and buffers.
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Circuit Diagram
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Frequency Response
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Circuit Images
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Conclusion/Performance Comments
Overall, our circuit behaved as expected. The volume control and amplifiers came out just as we
planned without any major issue. We had to opt for a lower-voltage LMC660 op-amp as our 15V
op-amps were damaged in previous labs and showed very unusual behaviors with AC inputs.
Our only major issue with our design came from the frequency response of our filters. This was
most likely due to manufacturing tolerances in the capacitors and inductors used. Our
measurements weren’t very far off from the lab specifications, but there was a noticeable
difference in the response. Additionally, the two channels showed slightly different behaviors
between each other’s responses, further indicating issues with component manufacturing.