A Note from your Instructors:

The labs in EE133 will be different from EE122 or other labs you have done. In addition to learning the theory behind communication circuits, you will gain a lot of practical knowledge about designing, building, and debugging electronic circuits. This knowledge won't come automatically though, and it doesn't come from following neatly packaged labs which enumerate every step and provide a box for every answer and response. You will be given more responsibility than that. A belief of this course is that you don't gain circuit level comprehension until you have built and analyzed all parts of a design. Therefore, the labs will follow a more independent style, in which it is more critical than ever that you understand the labs before you just start building and debugging. You should also go to office hours to resolve any unclear concepts. In order to give necessary guidance, this handout includes sections detailiing our expectations. The outline is given to help you achieve the goal of producing understandable and complete notebooks.

Lab Notebook Guidelines:

Heading (your name, lab topic)
Objectives
Pertinent equations
Preparation for lab and lab work (set up tables, graphs...)
Block diagram of test set-up
Explanation of work

(be clear and informational -- do your results make sense?)

Labeled circuit schematic diagrams (photocopies are fine, of course)
For measurements, label equipment used

(ex. 4.56Vrms (HP34401-DVM))

Attach copies of spice/MATLAB work (comment well)

(label these -- are they from the output? another node?)

Use grids in lab notebook to your advantage for drawing scaled waveforms and making tables
Feel free to document various questions or brillant ideas

Basically, your lab notebook should be representative of all your work. Someone else should be able to pick it up and continue where you left off. As a result, you should also put in any problems you had and keep a debugging log. For your own benefit, BE CONCISE; paragraphs about diodes having approximately 0.7 volts across them are probably not necessary.

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