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Most of the electronic measurements laboratories need signal generators capable to generate several types of signals with different shapes, frequencies and amplitudes. Unfortunately the more versatile such a signal generator will be the higher its cost will be. The alternative is the PC based instrumentation. There are classical tools, as Lab VIEW, but sometimes a better approach is to develop a PC based instrumentation system targeted to one or few of the electronic measurement operations.
This paper describes a configurable signal generator implemented with the PWM method on the advanced 32 bit Tricore microcontroller family. Several types of signals can be generated: sinus, pulse, saw tooth and custom. The proposed configurable signal generator is targeted to low frequency applications (1 Hz – 600 Hz) useful in motor control, laboratory experiments etc. The system offers the flexibility and versatility of the PC based electronic instrumentation, the performance of a 32 bit microcontroller and low cost.
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Popa, M., Silea, I., Banea, M. (2010). Configurable Signal Generator Implemented on Tricore Microcontrollers. In: Elleithy, K. (eds) Advanced Techniques in Computing Sciences and Software Engineering. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3660-5_74
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