So far, we’ve only been able to escape the sheer volume of…
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One caveat with signed binary numbers is that of overflow, where the…
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In this collection of hands-on electronics experiments, build and test digital circuits and learn the fundamentals of digital logic circuits, including gates, counters, logic levels, hysteresis, memory, and more.
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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to analyze digital…
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A multiplexer, abbreviated mux, is a device that has multiple inputs…
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Parallel-in/ serial-out shift registers do everything that the…
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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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Let’s begin with a semiconductor gate circuit in need of…
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A third variation on the counter-DAC-based converter theme is, in my…
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The fourth example has A partially overlapping B. Though, we will…
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In the previous section, we saw a circuit using one J-K flip-flop that…
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Up to now, every circuit that was presented was a combinatorial…
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The half-adder is extremely useful until you want to add more than one…
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Perhaps the most ingenious technique was that of the delay line. A…
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A demultiplexer, sometimes abbreviated dmux, is a circuit that has one…
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Perhaps the most important consideration of an ADC is its resolution.…
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Digital computers communicate with external devices through ports:…
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A practical application of switch and relay logic is in control…
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A transmission line of infinite length is an interesting abstraction,…
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Identify some of the different types of capacitors, and their…
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A tool designed to convert RF power from watts to decibels and vice versa
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build an analog voltage comparator circuit and learn how open-loop operational amplifiers function.
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Capacitors store energy in the form of an electric field, and…
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Power Equation of Ohm’s Law and Joule’s Law …
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Using the same value components in our series example circuit, we will…
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In this hands-on AC electronics experiment, build a parallel resonant inductor-capacitor circuit and learn about oscillation, resonant frequency, and damping.
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Contributors to this chapter are listed in chronological order of…
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build a precision potentiometer from three lower precision potentiometer and learn about voltage range compression and parameter interactions.
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This calculator helps you compute the characteristic impedance of an asymmetric stripline
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Seeing as how a common meter movement can be made to function as a…
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A voltage multiplier is a specialized rectifier circuit producing…
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Remember that this tutorial is not exhaustive by any means, and that…
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So far, we’ve been analyzing single-battery, single-resistor…
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Solid-state switching circuits usually keep their constituent…
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This tool helps calculate the impedance of an edge-coupled microstrip.
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So far, the phenomenon of resonance appears to be a useless curiosity,…
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The Maximum Power Transfer Theorem is not so much a means of analysis…
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A similar effect happens in series inductive/capacitive circuits. When…
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A calculator designed to calculate the maximum current that a stripline can handle
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, build a red LED flasher with a transistor drive to control the current and learn how to use transistors to provide current gain and how to limit LED current.
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The electrical resistance of a conductor at any temperature may be…
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Suppose we wanted to build a device that could add two binary bits…
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A modern method of electrical power control involves inserting a…
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Ladder diagrams are specialized schematics commonly used to document…
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Let’s connect three AC voltage sources in series and use complex…
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A handy all-in-one tool for reading resistor color code values for a 4 band resistor, 5 band resistor, or 6 band resistor.
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(a) Crystal radio. (b) Modulated RF at antenna. (c) Rectified RF at…
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What, exactly, is an arbitrary waveform generator, and for what…
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Read the following quotation, and then research the term…
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In this hands-on AC electronics experiment, you will use an automotive alternator to generate three-phase AC voltage and learn how alternators can function as both generators and motors.
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One caveat with signed binary numbers is that of overflow, where the…
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Unijunction transistor: Although a unijunction transistor is not a…
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