{"id":156,"date":"2015-12-03T22:57:10","date_gmt":"2015-12-04T06:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nickmccomb.net\/college\/?p=156"},"modified":"2017-01-14T20:47:54","modified_gmt":"2017-01-15T04:47:54","slug":"ece-322-voltage-regulator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nickmccomb.net\/college\/ece-322-voltage-regulator","title":{"rendered":"ECE 322 Variable Power Supply"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Picture of the final product. The screen is displaying a title in “initialization” mode.<\/p><\/div>\n

Project Summary<\/h3>\n

This project as a variable voltage regulator that I made for an ECE class (ECE 322: Electronics I). The project was implemented over 10 weeks during the lab for the class. The project served as a hands-on application for topics that we studied\u00a0in lecture. These topics includes Diodes, MOSFETs, BJTs, filters, OpAmps, and more. The project was a great way to apply skills learned in class to something that can be useful in your every-day life! Even on your bench in your lab (although I will always likely defer to a professionally made and produced power supply, I don’t want to rely on anything that has ‘protoboard’ in it when working on my projects).<\/p>\n

Project\u00a0Specification Document<\/h3>\n

As part of the project, I created a “Project Spec” document which details all of the circuits that I used in my design, and includes descriptions of their operation. I’ll omit discussion of those circuits in leu of allowing the reader to read the Project Spec document. I will discuss some of the extra credit that I implemented just for fun (it was unclear as to whether I actually got any extra points for it).<\/p>\n

The project’s high level specifications can be found below:<\/p>\n