CHAPTER 2

REVEW OF RELATED LITERATURE AND STUDIES

The review of related literature and studies was made to create a better point of
view of the study. The set of data were found to be great value as it will serve as
guide in bringing out the salient points by identifying their relationship, similarities
and differences. These related literatures and studies were taken out from books,
journals, internet, thesis and other printed materials.

According to Gabe A. Cohn(2008) in Digital LCF Meter: Every electrical engineer

and lab technician has been in a situation where it would be very helpful to have a
meter to conveniently measure capacitance, inductance, and frequency. Specially,
capacitors and inductors lack a universal marking scheme to label the value of the
components, and therefore it is often very difficult to know the value of these
components. Commercially LCF Meters are available, but are often very expensive
and rarely very portable. Therefore, making a low cost and portable Digital LCF
Meter will benefit people especially those in the engineering field.

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In the past years, some students of Electronics and Communications
Engineering of this university, also succeeded in making a LCF Meter. Aguilar(et al.)
of class 2006 created a Digital LCF Meter that provides a cheap but reliable inductor
(L), capacitance (C), and frequency (F) meter that can be used by the ECE and EE
students of the university. It comes in one handy unit with an LCD display. Their
device is based on PIC16F1628A that was preprogrammed with a hex code to
perform LCF calculations, and LM311 IC that functions as a frequency generator/
comparator. They uses LCD Module to display the result of the calculations. It can
measure inductances starting from 1mH up to 800mH. It measures capacitances
starting from 100pF to 1uF. It can also measure frequency of square wave signals up

to 28.550kHz, triangular wave signals up to 35.350kHz and analog signals up to

32.500KHz. the said LCF Meter is in the Laboratory Room of the university.