Sine Wave Oscillator Circuits
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Once the circuit gets current, all variables are initialized and the loop function is continually running. Initially all LEDs are off and there is no signal at the output. By pressing the signal switch, the first light that shows the most signal is at the....
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Lamp LI stabilizes the loop gain at higher frequencies while the limiting action of R2, CRI, and CR2 prevents clipping at low frequencies and increases the frequency adjustment range from about 3:1 to greater than 10:1.
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A Wien-bridge oscillator can be made Vllriable by using two frequency-determining parts that are varied simultaneously at high tracking accuracy. High-quality tracking potentiometers or variable capacitors are, however, expensive and difficult to obtain.....
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Cascading two identical integrators will thus result in an overall phase shift of 180° and an amplification of unity (p..
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This circuit produces a pure, - 80-dB THD sine wave with a frequency that is equal to the fc of IC3"s filter. A TT..
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This compact LC oscillator offers a frequency range of about 1 kHz to almost 9 MHz and a low-distortion sine-wave ou..
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This oscillator uses two transistors and operates the crystal in the fundamental mode. CT and C2 should..
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This phase-shift oscillator is useful for audio oscillator applications. Adjust R7 for a good sine w..
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Using a Quad NAND Gate, the TTL oscillator can use fundamental crystals between 1 and 10 MHz. The sine..
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A highly-stable 60-Hz sine wave can be delivered with this circuit, which offers a different and much simpler approach to gaining a stable amplitude...
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A 555 timer operating in the astable mode generates the driving pulses and two 4518 dual BCD (binary coded decimal) counters provide the square waves. A TL081 op amp serves as an output buffer-amplifier, and potentiometers Rl and R2 are used in order to....
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In this circuit, a square wave is filtered by a high-order low-pass filter so that a -3-dB frequency will eliminate most harmonics of the waveform. As a result, the filter outputs a fundamental sine wave. This method is applied to generate a sine wave by....
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A TTL counter, an 8-channel analog multiplexer, and a fourth-order low-pass filter can generate 10- to 25-kHz sine waves with a THD better than -80 dB. The circuit cascades the two second-order, continuous-time Sallen-Key filters within ICS to implement the....
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In this circuit, an LM741 op amp drives a Wien-bridge network using two zener diodes as..
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U1A, an op amp, oscillates at the frequency at which the phase shift in the Wien bridge network is exactly zero degrees. Changing bridge component values changes the oscillator frequency. In this circuit, we need change only the two resistors to do this. S1A....
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That circuit is based on a 14-pin DIL IC capable of producing sine, square, triangular, sawtooth and pulse waveforms of high accuracy and stability. The frequency may be selected to be from 0.001Hz to 1Mhz, Frequency modulation and sweeping can be....
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As shown for the stable sine wave oscillator circuit. In order to obtain stable oscillation, the loop gain of claim 1. If the gain is too large, the waveform distortion; if the..
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As shown for the wideband sinusoidal voltage controlled oscillator circuit. The circuit oscillation frequency is determined by integrating resistor R and a capacitor C, voltage..
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Circuit diagram used CA3140 op amp and diode array, produces a low distortion sine wave. Table shows the values of R and C, access to frequencies from 50Hz to 30kHz. Zener diod..
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This circuit generates a good 1KHz sinewave adopting the inverted Wien bridge configuration (C1-R3 & C2-R4). It features a variable output, low distortion and low output impedance in order to obtain good overload capability. A small filament bulb ensures....
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The multivibrator is a common circuit that consists of an amplifier with both positive and negative feedback (Figure 1a). When the output is positive, the positive input terminal equals ½V+, and the voltage at the negative input terminal changes toward V+.....
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This Design Idea provides a simple, inexpensive, portable circuit as an alternative to a microcontroller to provide a wide-range source of low-distortion sine waves for audio-circuit design and debugging. Although sine waves from DDS (direct digital....
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Electronic applications such as distortion and communications measurements require pure (distortionless) sine waves as input test signals. Distortion contained in test signals causes two problems. First, the test signal distortion content must be calibrated....
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The circuit of Figure 1 produces an accurate, variable-frequency sine wave for use as a general-purpose reference signal. It includes an eighth-order elliptic, switched-capacitor lowpass filter, IC3, which uses a 100-kHz square-wave clock signal that....
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Digital potentiometers are versatile devices; you can use them in many filtering and waveform-generation applications. This Design Idea describes an oscillator in which setting the resistance of two digital potentiometers independently programs the....
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This Design Idea presents a low-cost method of generating the basic 19-kHz pilot tone. The 19-kHz pilot tone comprises a baseband signal, and the L+R and LR signals consist of DSBSC (double-sideband-suppressed-carrier) modulation centered at 38 kHz. For a....
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Many applications require a sinusoidal reference voltage synchronized to the ac line voltage. You cannot derive such a reference voltage directly from the ac line because the waveform of the ac line is distorted because of nonlinear loads connected to the....
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In this circuit the gain is provided by a FET type op-amp. I have used an LF351, which may be hard to obtain, but the TL071CN or TL081CN may be used and have a faster slewing rate than the LF351. The Maplin order codes are RA67X and RA70M respectively. The....
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The circuit requires only one power-switching device, and you can use an analog or a digital signal to drive the switching device. The circuit also requires only a few components: a diode, a switching transistor or a MOSFET, an inductor or a transformer, and....
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Rectangular pulse generators, even at high frequencies, are easy to design. However, the design becomes more difficult if you need a signal that contains a precise number of periods with a sinusoidal shape. Although it is easy to produce a good sine wave,....
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A recent Design Idea described a method for designing simple, high-frequency LC oscillators with few passive components (Reference 1). However, for best results, practical hardware design of a stable oscillator requires more parts and greater complexity.....
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To keep the gain constant, the circuit used an incandescent pilot light to provide AGC (automatic gain control). As is true for all incandescent bulbs, the pilot light has nonlinear resistance. When you turn on the circuit, the cold lamp`s resistance is low,....