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Basic Logic Gates

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Identify the type of logic gate shown in this schematic diagram, and…

Half-Adder

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As a first example of useful combinational logic, let’s build a…

Series-Parallel Combination AC Circuits

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

The Gated S-R Latch

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It is sometimes useful in logic circuits to have a multivibrator which…

Conventional Transistor Overview and Special Transistors

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A microcontroller is a specialized type of digital computer used to…

The Exclusive-OR Function: The XOR Gate

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What Is an XOR Gate? One element conspicuously missing from the set of…

Converting Truth Tables into Boolean Expressions

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In designing digital circuits, the designer often begins with a truth…

Tracking ADC

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A third variation on the counter-DAC-based converter theme is, in my…

555 Lab - Red LED Flasher

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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build a red LED flasher and learn a useful application of the versatile 555 timer IC.

Design Project: Power Inverter

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A common topology for DC-AC power converter circuits uses a pair of…

555 Lab - Blue LED Flasher With Voltage Doubler

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In this hands-on electronics experiment, build a blue LED flasher using a 555 timer and learn the basic theory of a voltage doubler using a transistor switch and a capacitor.

Light-Pulse Switch

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It is fairly important to use large value resistors (10 MΩ works…

Demultiplexers

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A demultiplexer, sometimes abbreviated dmux, is a circuit that has one…

Practical considerations - Digital Communication

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A principal consideration for industrial control networks, where the…

Ring Counters

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If the output of a shift register is fed back to the input. a ring…

Microprocessors

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Early computer science pioneers such as Alan Turing and John Von…

Switch Types

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Though it may seem strange to cover the elementary topic of electrical…

Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC)

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

Basic Electromagnetic Relays

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

Digital Lab - 3-bit Binary Counter

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In this hands-on electronics experiment, build a 3-bit down counter using J-K flip-flops and learn about asynchronous counter functionality.

Binary Overflow

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

Copper Wire Ampacity Table

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Ampacities of copper wire, in free air at 30o C: INSULATION TYPE…

Millman’s Theorem

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In Millman’s Theorem, the circuit is re-drawn as a parallel…

Polar Form and Rectangular Form Notation for Complex Numbers

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In order to work with complex numbers without drawing vectors, we…

Parallel Resistor-Capacitor Circuits

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Using the same value components in our series example circuit, we will…

SPICE Quirks

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“Garbage in, garbage out.” —Anonymous   SPICE…

Kirchhoff’s Voltage Law (KVL)

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What is Kirchhoff’s Voltage Law (KVL)? The principle known as…

AC Lab - Phase Shift in a Capacitive Circuit

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In this hands-on AC electronics experiment, build a simple RC circuit that demonstrates phase shift and learn how out-of-phase AC voltages do not add algebraically.

Kelvin (4-wire) Resistance Measurement

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Suppose we wished to measure the resistance of some component located…

Digital Signals and Gates

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While the binary numeration system is an interesting mathematical…

Diodes

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A diode is an electronics component made from a combination of a…

High-pass Filters

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A high-pass filter’s task is just the opposite of a low-pass…

Series-Parallel Combination AC Circuits

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

Resonant Filters

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So far, the filter designs we’ve concentrated on have employed…

The Gated S-R Latch

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It is sometimes useful in logic circuits to have a multivibrator which…

Noise Figure Calculator

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A tool designed to calculate the noise figure of cascaded amplifiers

Making a Venn Diagram Look Like a Karnaugh Map

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Starting with circle A in a rectangular A’ universe in figure…

Full-Adder

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

Quantum Devices

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

Coax Impedance Calculator

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A helpful tool for calculating the impedance of a coaxial cable.

Resonance in Series-Parallel Circuits

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In simple reactive circuits with little or no resistance, the effects…

Tubes versus Semiconductors

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Devoting a whole chapter in a modern electronics text to the design…

Voltage Signal Systems

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The use of variable voltage for instrumentation signals seems a rather…

Junction Field-effect Transistors

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The field effect transistor was proposed by Julius Lilienfeld in US…

Comparator with Hysteresis (Schmitt Trigger) Calculator

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This calculator will compute the required resistor ratio (R2/R1) and reference voltage (VREF) to create the desired high (VTH) and low (VTL) threshold voltages in a non-inverting comparator circuit with hysteresis (commonly called a Schmitt trigger).

Electric Fields and Capacitance

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Introduction Whenever an electric voltage exists between two separated…

Battery Ratings

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Because batteries create current flow in a circuit by exchanging…

Bridge Circuits

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No text on electrical metering could be called complete without a…

Linear Computational Circuitry

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

Gate Universality

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NAND and NOR gates possess a special property: they are universal.…

Static Electricity

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What does it mean for an object to have an electric charge? Give an…

JFET Quirks

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Capacitance, Reactance, and Admittance Calculator

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A calculator for solving the capacitance, reactance, and admittance of a capacitor.

DC Lab - Rate-of-change Indicator

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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build an analog differentiator circuit that outputs a signal proportional to the rate-of-change and learn about one of the advantages of analog circuits.

Capacitor Types

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

Potential Pitfalls

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Fallacious reasoning and poor interpersonal relations account for more…

Specific Troubleshooting Techniques

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After applying some of the general troubleshooting tips to narrow the…

Finite-length Transmission Lines

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A transmission line of infinite length is an interesting abstraction,…

Vol I. Credits

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All entries arranged in alphabetical order of surname. Major…

Programmable Logic Controllers

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The Programmable Logic Controller, or PLC, was invented in the late…