Editing Bode plot (section)

==Bode plotter==
[[Image:Bodeplot.png|class=skin-invert-image|380px|thumb|right|Figure 10: Amplitude diagram of a 10th-order [[electronic filter]] plotted using a Bode plotter]]
The Bode plotter is an electronic instrument resembling an [[oscilloscope]], which produces a Bode diagram, or a graph, of a circuit's voltage gain or phase shift plotted against [[frequency]] in a feedback control system or a filter. An example of this is shown in Figure&nbsp;10. It is extremely useful for analyzing and testing filters and the stability of [[feedback]] control systems, through the measurement of corner (cutoff) frequencies and gain and phase margins.

This is identical to the function performed by a [[vector network analyzer]], but the network analyzer is typically used at much higher frequencies.

For education and research purposes, plotting Bode diagrams for given transfer functions facilitates better understanding and getting faster results (see external links).