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ENS/ELT466: Telecommunication Systems Lab Fall 2013 Week 8 - Oct. 29
ENS/ELT466: Telecommunication Systems Lab Fall 2013 Week 8 - Oct. 29
ENS/ELT466
TelecommunicationSystemsLab
Fall2013
Week8 Oct.29
IntroductiontotheDS345
SynthesizedFunctionGenerator
TelecommunicationSystemsLab(ENS466)
Fall2013
Week8 Oct.29
11/17/2013
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.
50
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