Homework 6, Use of IF Structures (14 points)

The job at the defense contractor didn't pay too well, so you've found work at a company that makes electronic control circuits. To improve the quality of their products, the company is creating a very large program to simulate the behavior of their proposed circuit designs. Your first job is to write 3 simple functions that provide specific voltage signals for use within the program.

1. A real function named "vstep" provides a simple voltage step from zero to one volt. It has two real arguments. The first is the current time, and the second argument is the time "t1" at which the time steps up from 0 to 1 volt. The value returned for "vstep" must be zero when time is less than "t1" and equal to one for time greater than or equal to "t1".
2. A real function named "vsqwave" provides a square wave voltage. It has three real arguments. The first is the current time. The second argument is the time "t1" at which the voltage steps up to 1 volt, and the third argument "t2" is the point in time at which the voltage steps back down to zero. The value returned for "vsqwave" must be zero when time is less than "t1", equal to one for time from "t1" through "t2", and be zero when time is greater than "t2".
3. A real function named "vramp" provides a ramped voltage increase from zero to one. It has three real arguments. The first is the current time. The second argument is the time "t1" at which the voltage starts to linearly increase from 0 to 1 volt, and the third argument "t2" is the point in time at which the linear voltage increase reaches 1 volt. The value returned for "vramp" must be zero when time is less than "t1", and equal to one for time greater "t2". When time is between "t1" and "t2", the output voltage is a linear interpolation in time between zero at "t1" and one at "t2".

I have provided the driver programs dstep.f, dsqwave.f, and dramp.f to test your functions. They have no input, and just call the appropriate function several times with various values for arguments, checking the results against expected values. Just add each of your functions to the end of the appropriate driver, compile, and execute the program. It will tell you if the results look OK.

Each of the three functions will be graded as follows:

• 1 point for quality of comments
• 2 points for proper use of IF structure.
• 1 point for correct Function structure.

Leave your modified versions of dstep.f, dsqwave.f, and dramp.f (don't change the file names) in your "homework" subdirectory. We will pick it up after the due date and test it.