Lab 5 Passive and Active Low Pass Filters

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Lab 5, Passive and Active Low Pass Filters 1 week PURPOSE The purpose of this experiment is to consider the sinusoidal response of several first order filters. The effect of loading (applying a load resistor to the output of the circuit) on the frequency response will be investigated. PART I Sinusoidal Steady State Frequency Response Figure 1. Low Pass Filter Circuits This part of the experiment will use the circuits shown in Figure 1. The RC circuit is referred to as a passive circuit and the circuit with the op-amp is known as an active circuit. First, calculate the -3dB frequency for each circuit. Remember that for the 1 st order RC filter, f -3db = 1 2 πRC Prepare a data table to record your data for both circuits, with and without a load. Measurement Parameter Passive RC filter w/o load Passive RC filter with 1KΩ load Active RC filter w/o load Active RC filter with 1KΩ load PSPICE Simulated Passband Gain (100Hz) Passband Phase (100HZ) -3dB Frequency Phase at -3dB Frequency Oscilloscope Measurement Passband Gain (100Hz) Passband Phase (100HZ) -3dB Frequency Phase at -3dB Frequency Network Analyzer Measurement Passband Gain (100Hz) Passband Phase (100HZ) -3dB Frequency Phase at -3dB Frequency
Lab 5, Passive and Active Low Pass Filters 1 week 1. Use PSPICE to do an AC analysis of each circuit and plot the frequency response (gain and phase) of each of the four circuits. First simulate each circuit without a load resistor. Then repeat the simulations with a 1K ohm resistor. Use the curser to measure the low frequency (about 100Hz) gain and phase shift at the output for a sinusoidal input. This should be repeated on both circuits with a 1K load resistor across its output terminals (On the op-amp, connect the load between pin6 and ground). Also use the cursers in PSPICE to mark the -3dB frequency and record the gain and phase at that point. Note that the -3dB frequency occurs –3dB below the passband gain. So if the pass band gain is -6dB, then the -3dB frequency occurs when the gain is -9dB. 2. Next build the circuits on your breadboard and use the Analog Discovery 2 kit (AD2) to apply a 1 Volt peak-to-peak (Vpp) sinusoid at the input and monitor the amplitude at the output. Monitor the input and output voltages with the AD2 Oscilloscope function. First capture the gain and phase in the passband (100Hz). You can use the cursers to pull data from the oscilloscope display. Note that since we are using a 1 Volt input amplitude, you merely need to measure the output voltage to measure the gain G = Vout Vin = Vout 1 Next slowly increase the frequency until the output is about 0.707 Vpp i . This frequency point is an engineering convention commonly used to characterize the bandwidth of a filter circuit. Other names given to this point are; half-power point, -3dB cut-off, and corner frequency. Use the cursers to measure the -3dB frequency, gain and phase at this frequency for each of the four circuits. 3. While still applying the 1Vpp input, use the AD2 Network Analyzer function to test the frequency response of each of the 4 circuits. Discussion Questions: 1. What affect did the load have on the active and passive circuits in terms of passband gain and -3dB frequency? 2. Compare the passband gain and phase for the passive and active circuits. Are they different and if so, why? 3. Comment on how and why the simulated PSPICE measurements are different from the measurements obtained by the Oscilloscope 4. Comment on how and why the simulated PSPICE measurements are different from the measurements obtained by the Network Analyzer
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