Curve tracer

known problems:
  • noisy
  • slow

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curve_tracer

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Current%E2%80%93voltage_characteristic

Schematic:

.-----------------------------------------------------------------.
|                         Arduino                                 |
|                                    pin_x_in=A2                  |
|                                                                 |
|                         pin_amp_out=A1   |                      |
|  pin_pwm=D9                              |    pin_x_out=A3      |
|                              |           |         |pin_rail=D10|
'-----------------------------------------------------------------'
       |  100k        MC33201  |        Vin|     Vout|     |
       |  ___            |\    |           |         |     |
       '-|___|--o--------|+\   |     ___   |  .---.  |     |
                |        |  >--o----|___|--o--| X |--o-----'
               ---      -|-/   |           |  '---'  |
          100n ---     | |/    |   R=120  ---       ---
                |      |       |          --- 100n  --- 100n
                       |       |           |         |
               GND     '-------'          GND       GND
                             Vamp

analog value time plot

BZX55C 2V7

(Source code, png, hires.png, pdf)

_images/curvetracer-9.png

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