Electrical Engineering › Section O · Pulses, nonsinusoidal signals, and system analysis › Topic O.1
Pulse waveforms, repetition rate, duty cycle, and average value
Clocks in computers, data on a cable and the drive to a dimmed LED are not sine waves but pulses. A handful of measurements, from rise time to duty cycle, describes any pulse waveform, and one formula gives its average value.
In this topic
- Why pulses matter
- The ideal pulse
- Real edges: rise time, fall time and pulse width
- Tilt, overshoot and ringing
- Worked example: reading a real pulse
- Pulse trains and repetition rate
- Duty cycle
- Worked example: prf and duty cycle from a scope
- Worked example: average of a pulse train
- Measuring the average with an oscilloscope
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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