This calculator helps you compute the characteristic impedance of an embedded microstrip.
Having learned about digital memory devices in the last chapter, we…
One caveat with signed binary numbers is that of overflow, where the…
Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to analyze digital…
The manufacture of only silicon based semiconductors is described…
The Rules of Binary Addition Adding binary numbers is a very simple…
Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to analyze digital…
With addition being easily accomplished, we can perform the operation…
Read the following quotation, and then research the term…
A principal consideration for industrial control networks, where the…
The “vocabulary” of instructions which any particular…
Before the advent of solid-state logic circuits, logical control…
The SPICE (Simulation Program, Integrated Circuit Emphesis)…
What is the difference between a JMP (“jump”) instruction and a…
Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) uses digital signals to control power…
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.
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.
Shift registers, like counters, are a form of sequential…
Most integrated circuits are digital, based on MOS (CMOS) transistors.…
In addition to performing tasks of amplification and switching, tubes…
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.
Read the following quotation, and then research the term…
Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…
A calculator for computing the impedance of a wire stripline.
Contributors to this chapter are listed in chronological order of…
Counting practice: count from zero to thirty-one in binary, octal, and…
The Q, or quality, factor of a resonant circuit is a measure of the…
The purpose of the parallel-in/ parallel-out shift register is to take…
In many disciplines of science and engineering, very large and very…
Shown here is a simplified representation of an atom: the smallest…
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.
“I consider that I understand an equation when I can predict the…
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.
With simple gate and combinational logic circuits, there is a definite…
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.
Mercury Standard Cell Back in the early days of electrical measurement…
During the early development of telephone technology, a unit was…
In the design of large and complex digital systems, it is often…
How is it possible to assign a fixed value of voltage or current (such…
Contributors to this chapter are listed in chronological order of…
Write an equation describing the precise mathematical relationship…
This calculator is designed to compute for the parameters needed to design a L-Match Impedance Circuit
A capacitor is a passive two-terminal electronic component that…
The expression of numerical quantities is something we tend to take…
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.
What does the normal status of an electrical switch refer to?…
The variable reluctance motor is based on the principle that an…
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.
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.
This calculator gives the reactance and admittance of an inductor or the inductance given the reactance of an inductor
In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build a battery-operated circuit with a light and learn about open and short circuit failures.
The half-adder is extremely useful until you want to add more than one…
This calculator helps you compute the characteristic impedance of a symmetric stripline.
For a given amount of water pressure, which will flow a greater rate…
Perhaps the most ingenious technique was that of the delay line. A…
So far, the phenomenon of resonance appears to be a useless curiosity,…
Project Overview This project employs all of the skills…
Wiring for AC and DC power distribution branch circuits are color…
The Parallel Wires of Infinite Length Suppose, though, that we had a…