Who Developed the Karnaugh Map? Maurice Karnaugh, a…
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Because binary numeration requires so many bits to represent…
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In the design of large and complex digital systems, it is often…
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In the previous section, we saw a circuit using one J-K flip-flop that…
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Larger Karnaugh maps reduce larger logic designs. How large is large…
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Explain the operation of this “H-bridge” motor control circuit: At…
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Though it may seem strange to cover the elementary topic of electrical…
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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to analyze digital…
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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…
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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to analyze digital…
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TTL Circuit Analysis Let’s examine the following TTL circuit and…
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, build a multiple LED flasher and learn how to use inductive flyback to generate a voltage pulse that is greater than the supply voltage.
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All entries arranged in alphabetical order of surname. Major…
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Parallel-in/ serial-out shift registers do everything that the…
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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.
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In this hands-on introduction to electronics, you will experiment with a multimeter and learn how to measure resistance using the ohmmeter function.
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Digital logic gate circuits are manufactured as integrated circuits:…
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Also known as the stairstep-ramp, or simply counter A/D converter,…
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At first it may seem pointless to have the four buffer gates following…
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In this collection of hands-on electronics experiments, build and test mixed-signal analog and digital circuits using the versatile 555 timer IC. These projects will teach you about RC time constants, duty cycle, transistor current drive, LEDs, voltage doublers, and more.
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An ideal transistor would show 0% distortion in amplifying a signal.…
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So far we have been finding Sum-Of-Product (SOP) solutions to logic…
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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…
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Another variation on a theme of bistable multivibrators is the J-K…
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As we’ve already learned, electricity requires a complete path…
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This calculator will convert voltage or power gains into decibels. Enter one of the three values and the calculator will output the other two.
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Synchronous motors load the power line with a leading power factor.…
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If I wanted to build a battery-powered electric drill, would it be…
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As opposed to normal equations where the solution is a number, a…
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Let’s count from zero to twenty using four different kinds of…
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With simple series circuits, all components are connected end-to-end…
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∫f(x) dx Calculus alert! One of the fundamental principles of…
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The Insulated-Gate Field-Effect Transistor (IGFET), also known as…
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AC Motors Perhaps the most important benefit of polyphase AC power…
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With addition being easily accomplished, we can perform the operation…
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Similar in thought to the idea of the integrated circuit, tube…
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Let’s take the same components for our series example circuit…
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build a thermocouple to measure temperature changes and learn about the Seebeck effect.
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Contributors to this chapter are listed in chronological order of…
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In this hands-on semiconductor electronics experiment, build a voltage follower amplifier using a bipolar junction transistor (BJT) in common-collector configuration and learn about circuit ground and impedance transformations.
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The SPICE (Simulation Program, Integrated Circuit Emphesis)…
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There’s a sure way to calculate any of the values in a reactive…
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This calculator calculates the RMS Voltage value from either the peak voltage, the peak-to-peak voltage, or the average voltage.
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In the simplest terms you can think of, define what an electrical…
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There are three basic factors of capacitor construction determining…
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A common class of operation used in radio-frequency (RF) amplifier…
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Note: all angles (x) must be expressed in units of radians for these…
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While Oersted’s surprising discovery of electromagnetism paved…
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When first approaching a failed or otherwise misbehaving system, the…
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The Insulated-Gate Field-Effect Transistor (IGFET), also known as…
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A parallel circuit is often called a current divider for its ability…
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Calculate the voltage output by the secondary winding of a transformer…
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In Millman’s Theorem, the circuit is re-drawn as a parallel…
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It is fairly important to use large value resistors (10 MΩ works…
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In this motor control circuit, how would you ensure that there is no…
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What shape of voltage waveform would you expect to measure (using an…
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Constant Rule Rule of Sums Rule of…
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The earliest forms of digital data storage involving moving parts was…
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If we were to connect two inverter gates together so that the output…
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