UEEA1333 ANALOGUE ELECTRONICS LAB 1: SIMULATION EDITION

Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman

Faculty Lee Kong Chian Faculty of Engineering and

Science
Department: Department of Electrical and Electronics
Engineering
Course Code and Name UEEA 1333 Analogue Electronics
Experiment No.: 1
Title of Experiment: Operational Amplifier
Laboratory Room No. and Name: KB602
Experiment Duration (hour): 3 hours
Number of Student per Group 1 student

Equipment and Materials

Item Description *Item category Quantity estimation
(e.g. per set/group of student)
Digital Multimeter E 1 per group
Dual Output Regulated DC Power Supply E 1 per group
Arbitrary Function Generator SFG-830 E 1 per group
Oscilloscope E 1 per group
Breadboard, patching wires C 1 per group
Op-Amp µA741C x 1 C 1 per group
Capacitors, 2 x 0.01 µF C 2 per group
Resistors 2 x 100 k, 2 x 10 k, 1 x 51 C 2,2,1 per group

*Item category
SP Sample or specimen
C Consumable
CH Chemical
W Labware, glassware, tool, and
components
E Equipment
S Software

* Please view the Practical Briefing (from Physical Lab to Simulation) before you proceed to do
your lab. Substitutions of physical apparatus (ie. Multimeter, Power supply, Function Generator,
Oscilloscope, etc) to online simulator in the LTspice are mentioned in the briefing.

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 FACULTY OF ENGINEERING AND SCIENCE
UNIVERSITI TUNKU ABDUL RAHMAN

UEEA 1333 Analogue Electronics

Experiment 1: Operational Amplifier

1. Objectives
• To determine the amplifier offset parameters Vio, IB1, IB2, and Iio
• To determine the amplifier rise time, slew rate and 3-dB bandwidth

2. Equipment
• Digital Multimeter
• Dual Output Regulated DC Power Supply
• Arbitrary Function Generator SFG-830
• Oscilloscope
• Breadboard, patching wires
• Op-Amp LM308 x 1
• Capacitors, 2 x 0.01 F
• Resistors 2 x 100 k, 2 x 10 k, 1 x 51 
3. Introduction
An op-amp is a very high gain amplifier with inverting and non-inverting inputs, high
input impedance and low output impedance. A commonly used op-amp is LM308 with the
pin diagram and symbol as shown below:

1 – Offset null 1 5 – Offset null 2

2 – Inverting input 6 – Output
3 – Non-inverting input 7 – Positive DC supply
4 – Negative DC Supply 8 – Not connected

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4. Procedures
A. Measurement of offset parameters
A1. Connect the circuit as shown in Figure 1, where VCC = VEE = 15 V, C = 0.01 F, R1 = RF =
100 k.

Figure 1: Measuring offset parameters of an op-amp

A2.Close both switches S1 and S2. Using multimeter, measure the output voltage vO. The circuit
becomes a voltage follower as shown in Figure 2. Thus, input offset voltage Vio = vO.
Vio
+
vo
–

Figure 2

A3.Open switch S1 and close switch S2. Measure the output voltage vO. Use the value of Vio found
in step A2 to find the dc current flowing into the inverting input terminal, IB2 from
vO − Vio
I B2 =
RF

A4.Close switch S1 and open switch S2. Measure the output voltage vO. The voltage at the (+)
terminal is vO – Vio. Use the value of Vio found in step A2 to find the dc current flowing into
the non-inverting input terminal IB1 from
vO − Vio
I B1 =
R1

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A5. Calculate the Input offset current, Iio i.e. I io = I B1 − I B 2 . Calculate the input biasing current, IB
I B1 + I B 2
i.e. I B =
2

B. Measurement of rise time, slew rate and 3-dB bandwidth

B1. Set up a 15 V DC supply for the op-amp experiments.
B2. Patch up the circuit as shown in Figure 3. CRT refers to an oscilloscope. CH1 and CH2 are
channel 1 and channel 2 of the CRT respectively.

Figure 3: Measuring rise time, slew rate and -3-dB bandwidth of an op-amp.

B3. Select input as pulse (square wave) from the Function Generator. Set the amplitude of the
square wave to be 240 mV peak-to-peak. Set the frequency to be 300 kHz.
B4. Estimate the rise time, tr of the output signal.
100%
90%

tr
10%
0

B5. Increase the signal amplitude until 4 V peak-to-peak. Measure the slew rate in V/s.
Enlarge the waveform and pick a straight segment (ignore any ringing/overshoot effect)
and determine its slope, giving the slew rate.
Slew rate = Rising/falling edge slope (V/µs)

B6. Use the .AC analysis to plot the Bode Plot of the amplifier. Set the AC amplitude to be 1
V. Sweep the frequencies from 100 Hz to 2 MHz in decades. Present the Bode Plot: graph
of gain (in dB) versus frequency and determine the -3 dB bandwidth.

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