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ENS/ELT466
TelecommunicationSystemsLab
Fall2013
Week8 Oct.29

IntroductiontotheDS345
SynthesizedFunctionGenerator
TelecommunicationSystemsLab(ENS466)
Fall2013
Week8 Oct.29

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TheDS345
TheDS345SynthesizedFunctionGenerator,fromStanfordResearchSystems,isa
highlyversatilesignalsourcethatoffersprecisedigitalsettingsofoutputfrequency
andamplitude.Besidessine,square,triangleandsawtooth waveforms,itwillalso
produceAM,FM,andPMsignalsusinginternalmessagesandAMsignalsusing
externalmessages.

TheDS345alsoallowsgenerationofapseudonoisewaveform(moreaboutthisnext
week)andofarbitrarywaveformsdescribedbydigitaltablesofvoltagevs time.

DirectDigitalSynthesis
TheDS345worksbyDirectDigitalSynthesis;itcomputesavoltagevs.frequencytable
forthedesiredoutputsignal,thenappliesabinaryversionofthattabletoadigital
toanalogconverter(DAC),whichproducesthesignal.

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analogmultiplier

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HowToUseIt
Thisgroupsetsthemain(carrier)
waveform:shape,frequency,
amplitude,DCoffsetvoltage,and
phaseoffset.

Thisisthe
mainoutput.

Thisgroupsetsthemodulatingmessage:
modulationtype,shape,rate(frequency),
moddepthorfreq span,(andstartfreq if
sweepisused).

Youcanenteravalueforthe
parameterdisplayed.

Oryoucanchangethe
valueindecadesteps.

Itispossibletoenteranarbitrarywaveformfromthefrontpanel,butverytedious.

BothSidesNow
TheDS345alsohasseveralinputsandoutputsforadvancedpurposesonitsrear
panel.
10MHzinputandoutputforlockingthe
timebase toothersynthesizedinstruments.

Outputsthemodulation
message.

IEEE488andRS232interfaces
forprogramming

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Summary

WewillusetheDS345synthesizedfunctiongeneratorinseveralfuturelabs.

ENS466/ELT466 Assignments

LabReport:

Labreport#7willcoverLabAssignment7(lastweekslab)plusLabAssignment8
(todayslab);itisdueatthestartofclasson11/5.

Reading:

Newreadingonnoise postedonBlackboard.

Nextweek:

Lecture NoiseandHistograms

Lab PhaseLockedLoops(PLLs)

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Backups/Alternates
TelecommunicationSystemsLab
(ENS466)
Fall2013

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