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    1) This lab experiment involves investigating the impulse and step response of a simple RC circuit. Students will determine the circuit's time constant from its impulse response and rise time from its step response, validating theoretical calculations. 2) The objectives are to design an experiment using chosen component values, measure the impulse response to determine the time constant, and measure the step response to determine the rise time. 3) The document provides background on using figures of merit like time constant and rise time to characterize a circuit's behavior independently of its design, giving examples of measuring these values from the RC circuit's impulse and step responses.

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    1) This lab experiment involves investigating the impulse and step response of a simple RC circuit. Students will determine the circuit's time constant from its impulse response and rise time from its step response, validating theoretical calculations. 2) The objectives are to design an experiment using chosen component values, measure the impulse response to determine the time constant, and measure the step response to determine the rise time. 3) The document provides background on using figures of merit like time constant and rise time to characterize a circuit's behavior independently of its design, giving examples of measuring these values from the RC circuit's impulse and step responses.

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    1) This lab experiment involves investigating the impulse and step response of a simple RC circuit. Students will determine the circuit's time constant from its impulse response and rise time from its step response, validating theoretical calculations. 2) The objectives are to design an experiment using chosen component values, measure the impulse response to determine the time constant, and measure the step response to determine the rise time. 3) The document provides background on using figures of merit like time constant and rise time to characterize a circuit's behavior independently of its design, giving examples of measuring these values from the RC circuit's impulse and step responses.

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    ECE 300 Lab 7

    Impulse and Step Response


    ECE 300 Lab 7

    In this laboratory, you will investigate basic system behavior by determining the
    impulse and step response of a simple RC circuit. You will also determine the
    time constant of the circuit and determine its rise time, two common figures of
    merit (FOMs) for circuit building blocks.

    Objectives:
    1. Design an experiment by choosing circuit component values and
    waveform details to investigate the impulse and step response.
    2. Measure the impulse response of the circuit and determine the time
    constant, validating your theoretical calculations.
    3. Measure the step response of the circuit and determine the rise time,
    validating your theoretical calculations.

    Background:
    As we introduce the study of systems, it will be good to keep the discussion well
    grounded in the circuit theory you have spent so much of your energy learning.
    An important problem in modern high speed digital and wideband analog
    systems is the response limitations of basic circuit elements, for example in high
    speed integrated circuits. As simple as it may seem, the lowly RC lowpass filter
    accurately models many of the systems for which speed problems are so severe.

    There is a basic need to be able to characterize a circuit independent of its circuit


    design and layout in order to predict its behavior. Consider the now-overly-
    familiar RC lowpass filter shown in Figure 1. We could describe this system by
    showing its circuit schematic or by calculating its impulse response or transfer
    function. But in many cases only FOMs are important to determine the adequacy
    of the system.

    R1

    +
    +

    V1 + C1
    +

    Vout

    Figure 1. Simple RC lowpass filter circuit.

    The first FOM is the system time constant. Many simple systems display a
    characteristic exponential decay in their response. Since the form of the
    response is known, the only data important to characterize a specific system is
    the numerical value of its time constant. Figure 2 shows a typical impulse
    response for the RC filter of Figure 1. The characteristic exponential decay is

    BAF 1 1/13/19
    ECE 300 Lab 7

    just as we remember from class. The time constant of the circuit is defined as
    the time it takes for the response to decay to 1/e times its initial value. Since the
    functional form of the response is exp(-t/RC), the time constant of the circuit can
    easily be shown to be simply RC.

    1/e*1=0.368

     = time constant

    Figure 2. Impulse response of the RC lowpass filter circuit of Figure 1, showing


    the definition of the circuit time constant.

    This FOM allows us to determine the behavior of the circuit in a number of


    important scenarios, such as digital signal response or the time until steady-state
    analysis results are valid.

    The second FOM is characterizes the response of the system to a step change in
    input. The response of the circuit of Figure 1 to an applied unit step input is
    shown in Figure 3. The rise time most typically used as a FOM is the “10-90%
    risetime”, which is simply the amount of time necessary for the output to rise from
    10% to 90% of its final value. This measurement in shown in Figure 3 as the
    time difference between the times t 10 and t90. These values can easily be
    determined given the step response of the system.

    BAF 2 1/13/19

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