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Although many textbooks provide good introductions to digital memory…
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Electricity and Magnetism An electric current through a conductor will…
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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to analyze digital…
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Ladder diagrams are specialized schematics commonly used to document…
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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.
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A mathematician named DeMorgan developed a pair of important rules…
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The Use of Logic Gate Inverters and buffers exhaust the possibilities…
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If the output of a shift register is fed back to the input. a ring…
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The single-transistor inverter circuit illustrated earlier is actually…
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Most integrated circuits are digital, based on MOS (CMOS) transistors.…
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What is a Synchronous Counter? A synchronous counter, in contrast to…
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Guidelines to Series-Parallel Combination Circuit Analysis The goal of…
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Digital computers communicate with external devices through ports:…
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In the design of large and complex digital systems, it is often…
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Aside from the issues of the physical network (signal types and…
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Though it may seem strange to cover the elementary topic of electrical…
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The purpose of the parallel-in/ parallel-out shift register is to take…
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A microcontroller is a specialized type of digital computer used to…
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Counting practice: count from zero to thirty-one in binary, octal, and…
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When calculating the power dissipation of resistive components, we can…
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As was mentioned before, the angle of this “power…
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, build and test a 2-input digital NAND gate with LED indicators and learn to read pinout diagrams, power a digital IC, connect unused inputs and outputs, and use pulldown resistors.
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Identify the type of logic gate shown in this schematic diagram, and…
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AC ANALYSIS: General form: .ac [curve] [points] [start] [final]…
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Identify each of these logic gates by name, and complete their…
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The electrons of different types of atoms have different degrees of…
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, build a Schmitt trigger using a 555 timer and learn about hysteresis and the inner workings of the extremely versatile 555 timer IC.
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There’s a sure way to calculate any of the values in a reactive…
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What is an Encoder? An encoder is a circuit that changes a set of…
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A helpful analogy for understanding divided feedback amplifier…
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This article explains the step-by-step process for determining the…
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A calculator for computing the impedance of a wire stripline.
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In this motor control circuit, how would you ensure that there is no…
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Inductive Reactance Capacitive Reactance …
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SPICE analysis of Electrical Isolation Aside from the ability to…
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Radio waves are comprised of oscillating electric and magnetic fields,…
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The metric system, besides being a collection of measurement units for…
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As we’ve already learned, electricity requires a complete path…
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Whenever there is a mismatch of impedance between transmission line…
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Like bipolar transistors, SCRs and TRIACs are also manufactured as…
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Notice something important here: taking the derivative of f(x)…
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An oscilloscope is a very useful piece of electronic test equipment.…
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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…
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In the common-emitter section of this chapter, we saw a SPICE analysis…
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What are Simultaneous Equations and Systems of Equations? The terms…
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The field effect transistor was proposed by Julius Lilienfeld in US…
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Normally, the rotor windings of a wound rotor induction motor are…
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Determine if the light bulb will de-energize for each of the following…
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A peak detector is a series connection of a diode and a…
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What does it mean for an object to have an electric charge? Give an…
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(a) Crystal radio. (b) Modulated RF at antenna. (c) Rectified RF at…
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Digital logic gate circuits are manufactured as integrated circuits:…
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A very common misconception students have about potentiometers is the…
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It should be common-sense knowledge that liquids flow through…
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A wound rotor induction motor has a stator like a squirrel cage…
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Brushless DC motors were developed from conventional brushed DC motors…
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This tool calculates the dimensions of the microstrip patch antenna given the desired operating frequency.
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SCRs are unidirectional (one-way) current devices, making them useful…
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The use of variable voltage for instrumentation signals seems a rather…
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