Create a Step Sine wave

Hi, I intend to create a square shaped step sine wave. At the moment I approach this problem by defining a sample time. However it created a triangular wave instead.

Please suggest to correct this. I have optional DSP tool box if necessary.

t=0:1/3:1;
y=sin(2*pi*t);
plot(t,y);grid on;

Answer 1

[Rashmil Dahanayake]

This Code produce a symmetric quasi square wave. Any ideas to change the number of steps to 6, instead of 3.

To=0.02;                     %period
t=(0:To/500:To)';  
f=sign(sin(2*pi*t/To))/2+sign(sin(-6*pi*t/To))/6;
plot(t,f7);grid on;

Answer 2

[Walter Roberson]

You did not sample at a high enough resolution. Or, alternately, use a stairs() plot

[Walter Roberson]

Your 3-level symmetric wave image starts off negative at t = 0. That requires using cos(t) or some other phase offset.

Your 3-level symmetric wave image has a different width for the central part where y = 0, only half the width of the y = -1 and y = +1. Therefore the number of sampling intervals must be increased.

With a small bit of experimentation what I find works acceptably well is

t = linspace(0,1,7);
y = sin(2*pi*(t-1/3));
stairs(t,y)

Answer 3

[Rashmil Dahanayake]

The stairs() doesn't produce a symmetric wave.

I need a 3 level symmetric wave like http://imgur.com/FPtDiTb

That's why I sampled at Ts/3.