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Design a clamp circuit to clamp the negative extreme of a periodic input waveform of 10 sin(100????)?? to -5V. Use 1 diode, 1 Zener diode, 1 resistor and 1 capacitor of suitable values. Assume a 0.6V forward drop for all diodes and that the Zener diodes have an ideal characteristic in the breakdown region. Power supply voltages of ±15V are available.
sol) Clamper is a DC resoter, it will not effect the shape of the input but it shifts the d.c level, to the desired place.
as we need to clamp the -ve extreem peak of input to -5V, connect the circuit as shown below
here for the input the -ve extreem peak is -10V, after applying the input to the clamper ciruit, the signal will be
clamped to -5V. the output signal is exist between -5V and 15V
to shift the dc level to -5V down, consider the fallowing circuit