PHYSICS 361

Laboratory Electronics II

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Spring 2008 Physics 361 Laboratory Electronics II

Instructor – Randy Babbitt

Physics Office: EPS 210, 994-6156 (EPS)

Spectrum Lab: 994-1797

Cell: 539-9751

Email: babbitt_teaching@physics.montana.edu

Office hours – 12-1 T and Th or by appointment (just email or call me)

Best times to catch me in EPS are Tuesday 1-6pm

 

 

Teaching Assistant – Jacob Plovanic

Physics office: EPS 220

jplovanic@physics.montana.edu

Office hours W and Th 11-12

 

Lectures: Tuesdays 9-9:50 in EPS 258, Dayton Conf. Room

Lab: Thursdays 8:00-10:50 or 2:10-5:00pm

Exams: As announced in Roberts 121

 

Required Text: Horowitz and Hill: The Art of Electronics, Second edition.

 

           

LABS and LAB WRITE-UPS

 Lab 1: Impedance, write-up due Extended to noon on 2/1
Here is a summary of the plots that should be in you lab 1 write-up: Lab1plots
Lab help session 1/28 3-5pm

 Lab 2: First Order Active Filters
Passive and Active RC and LR filters-Gain and Phase
Lab 2 help session 2/11 9-10am in Electronics lab
Plots for prelab:
Gain vs freq for all four circuits with pspice data and theory (8 data series)
Phase vs freq for all four circuits with pspice data and theory (8 data series)
Plots for main lab (Please plot pspice as line only and experimental data as points/markers only:
Gain vs freq for active RC circuits with pspice and experimental data (2 data series)
Phase vs freq for active RC circuits with pspice and experimental data (2 data series)
Gain vs freq for active LR circuits with pspice and experimental date (2 data series)
Phase vs freq for active LR circuits with pspice and experimental data (2 data series)
Voltage vs time for active RC circuits with pspice and experimental data (5 (normalized, if needed) expt data points) (2 data series)
Lab books due at 5pm on Tuesday 2/12.  I have office hours 12-1 if you need last minute help.

Lab 3 notebooks due 2/26 at 9am

Lab 4
Prelab is Homework from lecture 4.
Lab 4 notebooks due 2/28 at 3PM.
Agilent FFT guide

Lab 5
No prelab, except for reading.
  See reading assignment.
723 Regulator data sheet LM723
Due Friday 3/7 at 3pm.

Lab 6
Prelab due 3/20 in lab. 
Also see reading assignment.
Due 3/27 in lab.

Lab 7
Prelab due 3/27 in lab.
 
Lab write-up due 4/4 at 4pm.

Lab 8
Prelab due 4/3 in lab.
 
Lab write-up due 4/11 at 4pm.

Project

Laser light show driver

4/10 Project start: dual DACs at 1-3kHz
Prelab: 
1) Draw a still picture with greater than 16 points (=N).  Print out (in excel or such) the array of x-y points in your still.
Points must be on 16x16, 8x32, or 32x8 grid (integer values)
Plot the points in excel or such.  Draw lines from 1st to 2nd, 2nd to 3rd, etc. points. 
Indicate numerically or via linewidth the brightness of EACH line.
2) Draw a draft of an animated light show you think would be good to do. 
You don’t need to include brightness on each line, but think about how that figures into your animation.
Sketch out each frame.  Don’t need points yet.  Keep in mind limited grid.

4/17 Initial images: dual offset DACs with active filters run by parallel port and viewed on scope.
Prelab:  Still images converted to single column of 0-255 numbers.

4/24 Testing of animation on scope.  Scanner testing and adaptation of electronics to scanners. 
Prelab:  Animation converted to multiple columns (one per frame) of 0-255 numbers.
All frames must have same number of points.

5/1 Circuit clean-up, testing, and prep for laser show.  Laser show trial.

5/2 3-4 Laser light show in EPS atrium.

Here is m-file for Matlab to simulate laser show drawings:   LaserShowSimulator

Here is LabView VI to turn 1-column (still)
or multi-column (multi frame animation) of 0-255 numbers (tab delimited)
into parallel port output:   MSU_LaserShow_5.vi
It allows you to set sample rate (in microseconds per sample) and frame repetitions.
8-bit parallel port output can run 16x16, 8x32, or 32x8 laser show.

Here is a sample of a single column of 0-255 text file (not an image):   fake 1D 123_255data.txt
Useful for testing parallel port output and timing.

Here is data sheet for 74LS240 :   datasheet74ls240.pdf

Each group will produce one circuit board that can run both group members still and animation images.
So group has to decide if they are doing 16x16 or 8x32 images.
8x32 is easily converted to 32x8 and thus both formats are compatible within one group.

POWER BOOSTER FOR LASER LIGHT SHOW

We do not have the appropriate audio amplifiers in stock in the PEDL, so the plan will be to put a power booster in our circuits.  
READ the section in H&H on “power booster” (page 186) in Chapter 4.  
Decide if you want to use figure 4.21 or 4.22.   Decide where it will go in your circuit. 
Do you want to put in a new opamp and do you want to integrate into current opamp?
Draw final stage of your laser light show driver with power booster as you want to implement it.
I will have the appropriate transistors picked out by Thursday.

 

Project Write-Up:
You are responsible for a full write-up of the lab, including documentation of:
 overall motivation, preparation, testing of all components (how tested and results, including computer interface),
diagrams, performance, mistakes made, testing of x-y scanner,
reconfiguration of set-up and active filter to adjust for x-y scanner,
observations (compare and contrast your excel/Matlab drawing, oscilloscope image, and laser show image),
performance of x-y scanners, explanation of computer interface (x-y image to parallel port output to DAC).
In conclusions, include photos of laser show and
extensive comments on what was good and bad about the project and ways to improve the design/project.
Must be neatly written or typed.  Neatness counts in grade.  That includes circuit board.
Write-ups are to be done individually.

 Reading and Homework Assignments

READING
Reading assignments will be announced in class and posted on web.

Scan (and make sure you understand these 261 concepts) pages 1-28 and Read pages 29-44 in H&H by 1/22/08

Read by 1/31 (Before Lab) H&H pages 175-180 (up to 4.07) and pages 184-185 (up to RIAA preamp).  These pages review 261 concepts

Read by 1/31 (Before Lab) H&H pages 185-186 (Section on RIAA preamp only) and pages 263-268 (up to 5.05)

Read before 2/12/08 H&H 268-279 and 222-224
No reading for 2/19, but you can read T&R chapter 14 if you’d like.

No reading, except you may find reference at the end of lecture 4 useful.

Read before 2/28/08 Read 307-311 (6.01-6.02) and 325-331 and reread 44-48 (1.25-1.29)

Reading (by 3/18):  Scan chapter 8 in H&H; Scan chapter 9 up to 612; Read A/D&D/A converters  (pages 612-641)

Read 8.02-8.07,8.10,8.12, in H&H by 3/20
Read 5.14, 8.16-8.17, 8.24-8.25, 8.30 by 3/25

ReRead A/D&D/A converters  (pages 612-641) by 4/1.

 

HOMEWORK

HW1:  H&H excercises 1.17 and 1.26 due 1/24 in lab

 HW2 due 1/31 BEFORE lab.  Here is two examples of error analysis: ErrorAnalysisExamples

HW3: Exercises 5.1 and 5.2 on page 266 due 2/12/08 before class.
No homework for 2/19.
Homework/Prelab due 2/21 (see lecture 4).
No homework the week of Feb 25.

 HW4: Due Wednesday 3/19 at 3pm (do reading first!).  Get most done before class on 3/28 so we can discuss if needed.

HW5:  H&H Exercises 8.5 (p.480), 8.8(p.482), and 8.12(p.492) due 3/25 in class

No homework due 4/1


 IMPORTANT DATES

Changes to these dates will be announced in class and posted on here on the web (highlighted in red).

Scan 1-28 and Read 29-44 in H&H by 1/22/08

HW1:  H&H exercises 1.17 and 1.26 due 1/24 in lab

HW 2 due date extended to 1/31 BEFORE lab

Read by 1/31 (Before Lab) H&H pages 175-180 (up to 4.07) and pages 184-185 (up to RIAA preamp).  These pages review 261 concepts

Read by 1/31 (Before Lab) H&H pages 185-186 (Section on RIAA preamp only) and pages 263-268 (up to 5.05)

Lab 1 : Impedance, write-up due date extended to 2/1 at noon

2/11 9am-10am help session in lab

Read before 2/12/08 H&H 268-279 and 222-224

2/12 5PM lab2 notebooks due

2/26 9am lab3 notebooks due

Read before 2/28/08 Read 307-311 (6.01-6.02) and 325-331 and reread 44-48 (1.25-1.29)

Lab 4 notebooks due 2/28 at 3PM.

Friday 3/7 at 3pm lab5 notebooks due.

Reading (by 3/18):  Scan chapter 8 in H&H; Scan chapter 9 up to 612; Read A/D&D/A converters  (pages 612-641)

HW 4: Due Wednesday 3/19 at 3pm
Read 8.02-8.07,8.10,8.12, in H&H by 3/20
Read 5.14, 8.16-8.17, 8.24-8.25, 8.30 by 3/25
HW5:  H&H Exercises 8.5 (p.480), 8.8(p.482), and 8.12(p.492) due 3/25 in class.

Lab 6 due 3/27.

Lab 7 due 4/4 at 4pm.

ReRead A/D&D/A converters  (pages 612-641) by 4/1.

Lab 8 due 4/11 at 4pm

 

LASER SHOW Friday May 2 3-4pm in EPS atrium.

FINAL EXAM Thursday May 8, 2008 12-1:50pm

 

 

Lecture Notes

Lecture notes are available at CARDS AND COPIES in SUB.

Lecture notes can also be printed from web site.

 

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Day and
Date

Lectures covered,
activities, and reading.

Lectures in PDF

(1 slide per page)

Lecture notes in Adobe PDF
(6 per page)

(Same as notes at
Cards and Copies)

Tuesday 1/22/08

Go over Syllabus

Lecture 01

 

 Lecture 01

 Lecture 01 6pp notes

Tuesday 1/29/08

Review lecture 01 and go over concepts from labs

Still lecture 01

 

Tuesday 2/5/08

Lecture 02

 Lecture 02

 Lecture 02 6pp notes

Tuesday 2/12/08

Lecture 03

 Lecture 03

 Lecture 03 6pp notes

Tuesday 2/17/08

Lecture 04

 Lecture 04

 Lecture 04 6pp notes

Tuesday 2/25/08

Lecture 05

 Lecture 05

 Lecture 05 6pp notes

Tuesday 3/4/08

Lecture 06

 Lecture 06

 Lecture 06 6pp notes

Tuesday 3/18/08

Lecture 07

 Lecture 07

 Lecture 07 6pp notes

Tuesday 3/25/08

Lecture 08

 Lecture 08

 Lecture 08 6pp notes

Tuesday 4/1/08

Lecture 09

 Lecture 09

 Lecture 09 6pp notes

Tuesday 4/8/08

Project Lecture 1

 Project Lecture 1

 

Tuesday 4/15/08

Labview

 LabviewIntro

 LabViewIntro_6pp notes

 

 

 

 

 

 

Questions and/or comments can be addressed to: babbitt_teaching@physics.montana.edu
Last Updated: 4/23/2008