This project is designed to familiarize the user with the Arbitrary Waveform Generator (AWG) and Oscilloscope instruments within the Digilent WaveForms software. A simple RC circuit will be built on the EE Board (Electronics Explorer Board). The AWG will be used to apply either a step input or sinusoidal input to the RC circuit. The Oscilloscope will be used to observe the circuit’s resulting behavior. In this project, we will look at generating a step response and a sinusoidal response in the time domain. We will also use the Network Analyzer to generate a sinusoidal response in the frequency domain.
Since this project primarily serves the purpose of familiarizing the user with the EE Board and WaveForms software so it will not discuss any background material on RC circuits and step/sinusoidal responses. However, the interested reader is recommended to visit the Digilent Learn Site, learn.digilentinc.com, to learn more about RC circuits and a wide variety of other electronics topics.