Hackaday

A Function Generator From The Past

It’s always a pleasure to find a hardware hacker who you haven’t seen before, and page back through their work. [Bettina ...
Hackaday

A Function Generator In Its Purest Form

If you have a modern function generator on your bench it is quite likely to contain a direct-digital synthesis circuit that creates arbitrary waveforms using a microprocessor controlled DAC. If you ...
EDN

Arbitrary waveform generator waveform creation using equations

An arbitrary waveform generator (AWG) is a powerful and flexible signal source capable of generating any wave shape within the bandwidth and amplitude range of the generator. Populating an AWG with ...
Electronic Design

The Tektronix Function Generator Teardown

A dead Tek FG503 function generator plug-in inspires a teardown. The culprit? A bad op amp in the power supply. A former coworker friend sent me a Tektronix 3-slot mainframe and several plug-in ...