ASSIGNMENT

EEB113 CIRCUIT ANALYSIS I

SEMESTER 2, ACADEMIC YEAR 2013/2014

SECTION: 05
DATE SUBMITTED: 2ND JANUARY 2014
LECTURER’S NAME: SIR ISMAIL BIN SAID
Schematic Diagram and Circuit Overview
For this assignment, we are required to design an op amp circuit which will solve the
equation given. In our case, the equation is Vo = 0.5(V1+V2) – 3V2.
After hours of brainstorming and trial and error, we had successfully built, ran it in LTspice,
and got the correct output voltage for each of the test input voltages by using this circuit:

Diagram 1 : The Schematic Diagram of The Circuit

We start off by supplying 2 input voltages, V1 connected in series with R1 and V2 which is
connected with R2; to the negative input of first summer op amp,U1 to briefly get the first
part of the equation which is -0.5(V1+V2), or as labelled in Diagram 1 simply as Va.
The presence of the negative sign is due to the nature of inverting op amp used by the
summing amplifier , which its positive input is connected to the ground. To get a positive
output for Va, we connected the output of the first op-amp to the negative input of another
inverting op amp, namely U2 .

Besides that, like killing 2 birds with one stone, we combined the first output, Va with another
input which have a 10k ohm resistor, R5 connected to the V2 source to get the second part of
the equation which is -3V2. By setting the feedback resistor R6 to 30k ohm equal to the value
of R4 to maintain Va; while also amplifying V2 output by 3, we were able to get the desired
equation which is V0 = 0.5(V1+V2) – 3V2.

The V3 and V4 acts as the positive and negative DC power supply to the op amps. We have
decided to make use of ‘Label Net’ feature in LTspice to represent the positive and negative
power supply with V+ and V-, having a +12V and -12V respectively and separating the 2
sources from the rest of the circuit to reduce wire cluttering, while connecting them to ground.
.tram 10m is for the LTspice transient simulation with Stop Time being set to 10miliseconds.
Schematic Diagrams and Output Waveforms (I)

Diagram 2.1: Input voltages V1 = 1 Volt ; V2 = 2 Volts

Graph 1: Waveforms due to V1 = 1V and V2 = 2V voltage sources, Vo=-4.5V

Schematic Diagrams and Output Waveforms (II)

DIAGRAM 2.2: Input voltages V1 = -1 Volt, V2 = 2 Volts

Graph 2: Waveforms due to V1 = -1V and V2 = 2V voltage sources, Vo = -5.5V

Schematic Diagrams and Output Waveforms (III)

DIAGRAM 2.3: Input Voltages V1 = 1 Volt, V2 = -2 Volts

Graph 3: Waveforms due to V1 = 1V and V2 = -2V voltage sources, Vo = 5.5V

REFERENCES

1. In Charles K. Alexander, & Matthew N. O. Sadiku (Eds.), (2013), ‘Summing

amplifier’ in Fundamentals of Electric Circuits, (5th ed., pp. 185-187). New York:

McGraw-Hill Education

2. Bramble, S. (n.d.). LTspice Tutorial: Part 1 [WWW page].

URL http://www.simonbramble.co.uk/lt_spice/ltspice_lt_spice_tutorial_1.htm

3. Sturtevant, T. (2013). LTspice Tutorial [WWW page]. URL

http://denethor.wlu.ca/ltspice/#IIIB