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Embedded Microstrip Impedance Calculator

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This calculator helps you compute the characteristic impedance of an embedded microstrip.

Look-up Tables

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Having learned about digital memory devices in the last chapter, we…

Binary Overflow

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One caveat with signed binary numbers is that of overflow, where the…

Memory Devices

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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to analyze digital…

Semiconductor Manufacturing Techniques

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The manufacture of only silicon based semiconductors is described…

Binary Addition

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The Rules of Binary Addition Adding binary numbers is a very simple…

Digital Communication

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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to analyze digital…

Negative Binary Numbers

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With addition being easily accomplished, we can perform the operation…

Microcontroller Principles

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Read the following quotation, and then research the term…

Practical considerations - Digital Communication

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A principal consideration for industrial control networks, where the…

Microprocessor Programming

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The “vocabulary” of instructions which any particular…

Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC)

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Before the advent of solid-state logic circuits, logical control…

Semiconductor Devices in SPICE

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The SPICE (Simulation Program, Integrated Circuit Emphesis)…

Microprocessor Programming

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What is the difference between a JMP (“jump”) instruction and a…

Performance-Based Assessments for Semiconductor Circuit Competencies

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Pulse Width Modulation

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Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) uses digital signals to control power…

DC Lab - An Analog Computer For Averaging

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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build a simple circuit that computes the average of voltages and learn about analog computers and their application.

Si Lab - Intro to Discrete Semiconductor Circuits

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In these hands-on semiconductor electronics experiments, learn to build and test circuits using discrete silicon (Si) devices, including diodes and transistors. Also, learn important circuit designs, including rectifiers, current mirrors, amplifiers, and oscillators.

Introduction to Shift Registers

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Shift registers, like counters, are a form of sequential…

Quantum Devices

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Most integrated circuits are digital, based on MOS (CMOS) transistors.…

Display Tubes

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In addition to performing tasks of amplification and switching, tubes…

Analog Lab - Op Amp Integrator

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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build an analog integrator using an operational amplifier and learn about integration functions, op amp input bias currents, and how to limit the voltage swing of a potentiometer.

Microcontroller Principles

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Read the following quotation, and then research the term…

Series and Parallel AC Circuits

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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…

Wire Stripline Impedance Calculator

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A calculator for computing the impedance of a wire stripline.

Contributors (6)

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Contributors to this chapter are listed in chronological order of…

CMOS Logic Gates

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Counting practice: count from zero to thirty-one in binary, octal, and…

Q Factor and Bandwidth of a Resonant Circuit

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The Q, or quality, factor of a resonant circuit is a measure of the…

Universal Shift Registers: Parallel-in, Parallel-out

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The purpose of the parallel-in/ parallel-out shift register is to take…

Scientific Notation

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In many disciplines of science and engineering, very large and very…

Atomic Structure

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Shown here is a simplified representation of an atom: the smallest…

Si Lab - Full-wave Bridge Rectifier With Output Filtering

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In this hands-on semiconductor experiment, build an improved full-wave rectifier with output filtering and learn about capacitive filtering in AC-to-DC power converters.

Component Failure Analysis (Continued)

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“I consider that I understand an equation when I can predict the…

555 Lab - Oscillator With Hysteresis

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In this hands-on electronics experiment, build an oscillator with hysteresis from a Schmitt trigger and learn how to use it to create an RC oscillator and a method to configure a 555 timer as an astable multivibrator.

Digital Logic With Feedback

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With simple gate and combinational logic circuits, there is a definite…

Si Lab - Commutating Diode

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In this hands-on semiconductor electronics experiment, build a simple circuit that will teach you how to use a commutating diode to reduce inductive kickback.

Special-purpose Batteries

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Mercury Standard Cell Back in the early days of electrical measurement…

Decibel Measurements

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During the early development of telephone technology, a unit was…

Introduction to Digital Communication

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In the design of large and complex digital systems, it is often…

Peak, Average, and RMS Measurements

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How is it possible to assign a fixed value of voltage or current (such…

Contributors (10)

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Contributors to this chapter are listed in chronological order of…

Switched Capacitor Circuitry

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Write an equation describing the precise mathematical relationship…

L-Match Impedance Matching Circuits

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This calculator is designed to compute for the parameters needed to design a L-Match Impedance Circuit

Capacitor Types

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A capacitor is a passive two-terminal electronic component that…

Numbers and Symbols

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The expression of numerical quantities is something we tend to take…

Digital Lab - Digital Combination Lock

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In this hands-on electronics experiment, build a digital combination lock with LED output indicators and learn about XOR gate functionality and how to implement NOR logic functionality using diodes.

Time-Delay Electromechanical Relays

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What does the normal status of an electrical switch refer to?…

Reluctance Motor

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The variable reluctance motor is based on the principle that an…

555 Timer Astable Oscillator Circuit

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In an astable circuit, the output voltage alternates between VCC and 0 volts on a continuous basis. This calculator will help you design an oscillator using a 555 timer IC.

Si Lab - Astable Multivibrator Audio Oscillator

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In this hands-on semiconductor electronics experiment, build an astable multivibrator (oscillator) circuit that provides an output in the audio frequency range and learn the effect of component values and supply voltage on oscillation frequency.

Inductance, Reactance, and Admittance Calculator

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This calculator gives the reactance and admittance of an inductor or the inductance given the reactance of an inductor

Intro Lab - A Simple Lighting Circuit

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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build a battery-operated circuit with a light and learn about open and short circuit failures.

Full-Adder

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The half-adder is extremely useful until you want to add more than one…

Symmetric Stripline Impedance Calculator

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This calculator helps you compute the characteristic impedance of a symmetric stripline.

Ohm’s Law

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For a given amount of water pressure, which will flow a greater rate…

Historical, Nonmechanical Memory Technologies

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Perhaps the most ingenious technique was that of the delay line. A…

Applications of Resonance

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So far, the phenomenon of resonance appears to be a useless curiosity,…

Intro Lab - Ohm’s Law

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Project Overview This project employs all of the skills…

Wiring Color Codes

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Wiring for AC and DC power distribution branch circuits are color…

Characteristic Impedance

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The Parallel Wires of Infinite Length Suppose, though, that we had a…