Thesis work consists of design of a RLC measuring device with a sound card, which was used as a signal acquisition unit and also for a test signal generation sent to a test element.
RLC measuring device consists of voltage divider, comprised of a reference resistor of known value and a measured element of unknown impedance. Signals on both elements are measured using two channel sound card line input.
Using lock-in amplifier method, amplitude and phase of each signal have been measured. Using this data parameters of a measured element, such as resistance, capacitance and inductance, can be calculated. Using additional reference resistors, RLC measurement range was expanded. Switching between multiple measuring ranges was implemented using reed relays and a shift register, controlled via RS232/USB interface.
First part of this work defines impedance and presents basic passive electronic elements and their properties. This section also covers different methods of impedance measurement.
Second part presents design and creation of hardware and software parts of RLC measuring device. Labview environment has been used for software development, enabling easy real time signal processing. Measuring device has been constructed on a development board and packaged into an aluminium case.
In the last part of this work we have calculated known contributions to the uncertainty of measurement and calculated final measurement result for each measured element. At the end we have compared results with Agilent 4263B.
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