January 26, 2014
To: Dr. David Michelson
From: Ryan Wong, L2C4 Team Leader
This memorandum serves as an update for progress of the EECE 380 Design Studio III team, L2C4, during the week of January 21-27, 2014.
Before our first lab session, we set up our team blog, created a Facebook group, and organized a Google drive folder for shared documents. We will be using these tools to communicate with each other, as well as to maintain all relevant project files.
Our team met during our two designated lab times on Tuesday and Thursday from 3:30-6:30pm. During the first session, we used signal generators and spectrum analyzers to observe frequency components of waves sent through a splitter and a mixer. The primary focus of these lab activities were to become comfortable with the user settings and controls on the spectrum analyzers. The second lab session focused on using a Voltage Controlled Oscillator (VCO) and an RF Amplifier. By the end of the second lab period, we had connected the VCO and the RF source into the L and R inputs of the Mixer, and sent the output through a 10.7MHz BPF into the spectrum analyzer. The result of this was an important discovery, as we were able to determine the necessary tuning range of the VCO for our custom spectrum analyzer.
In terms of task breakdown and delegation, each team member is currently doing independent research to gain a high level understanding of each component of the spectrum analyzer. We have shared important findings with each other on our Facebook group. We will start to assign more specific tasks at the start of next week.