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- Remove the R2R ladder network from your breadboard
and disconnect the clamp circuit's output from the
MicroStamp11. You will be rebuilding parts of this circuit
in later labs and you won't need the R2R ladder network
anymore. The rest of your breadboard you can reuse.
- Compile and download your program written in the
pre-lab task.
- Use the oscilloscope to experimentally measure the
duty cycle and period of your system's PWM signal for at
least 25 different duty cycles. Be sure to gather data for
very small (near 0%) and very large (near 100 %) duty
cycles.
- Your system may not produce the expected PWM
signal for very large or small duty cycles. If this happens, then
determine why and rewrite your program so it addresses this
problem. Use the oscilloscope to verify how well your solution
addressed the problem by taking data at very high and low duty cycles.
- Description of what happened during the in-lab task.
Michael Lemmon
2009-02-01