The purpose of the parallel-in/ parallel-out shift register is to take…
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Logic circuits, whether comprised of electromechanical relays or…
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What Is an XOR Gate? One element conspicuously missing from the set of…
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Boolean algebra finds its most practical use in the simplification of…
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, build and test an automated circuit that sequentially flashes 10 LED, and learn about counters, frequency dividers, and switch debouncing.
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It is fairly important to use large value resistors (10 MΩ works…
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Counting practice: count from zero to thirty-one in binary, octal, and…
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Digital logic gate circuits are manufactured as integrated circuits:…
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What is the purpose of a seven-segment decoder circuit? What is a…
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Up until this point, our analysis of transistor logic circuits has…
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If a pulse-width modulated (PWM) signal is sent to a passive…
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The Use of Logic Gate Inverters and buffers exhaust the possibilities…
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Though it may seem strange to cover the elementary topic of electrical…
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NAND and NOR gates possess a special property: they are universal.…
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Electricity and Magnetism An electric current through a conductor will…
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Why learn about Karnaugh maps? The Karnaugh map, like Boolean…
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The circuit shown here is a four-bit analog-to-digital converter…
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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to analyze relay…
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What does it mean, in general terms, to encode something? Conversely,…
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So far we have been finding Sum-Of-Product (SOP) solutions to logic…
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As an example of using several circuits together, we are going to make…
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What Is a R/2nR DAC Circuit? The R/2nR DAC circuit, otherwise known as…
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Perhaps the most ingenious technique was that of the delay line. A…
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The R/2R DAC circuit is an alternative to the binary-weighted-input…
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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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Serial-in, serial-out shift registers delay data by one clock time for…
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One of the more advanced ADC technologies is the so-called…
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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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With simple gate and combinational logic circuits, there is a definite…
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Feedback is a fascinating engineering principle. It can turn a rather…
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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to analyze relay…
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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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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to analyze digital…
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Let’s count from zero to twenty using four different kinds of…
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When someone mentions the word “computer,” a digital…
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Also known as the stairstep-ramp, or simply counter A/D converter,…
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Add the following binary numbers:
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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…
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TTL Circuit Analysis Let’s examine the following TTL circuit and…
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Calculate the voltage output by the secondary winding of a transformer…
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Bipolar junction transistors (Also known as BJTs) can be used as an…
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What is Split-Phase Power Systems? Split-phase power systems achieve…
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What does it mean, in general terms, to encode something? Conversely,…
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When a PCB designer speaks of dimensions in thous or mils, what does…
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Because octal and hexadecimal numeration systems have bases that are…
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Contributors to this chapter are listed in chronological order of…
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In mathematics, an identity is a statement true for all possible…
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Conductors lose all of their electrical resistance when cooled to…
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The circuit in the previous section is not a very practical one. In…
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A tool designed to calculate the guided wavelength inside a microstrip.
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Define what noise means, in the electrical sense of the word. How does…
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With this lesson, I hope to avoid a common mistake found in…
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What factors determine where potentiometers Rpot1 and Rpot2 must be…
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Ampacities of copper wire, in free air at 30o C: INSULATION TYPE…
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This tool calculates the dimensions of the microstrip patch antenna given the desired operating frequency.
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An ideal transistor would show 0% distortion in amplifying a signal.…
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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…
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This calculator helps you determine the values of the resistors R1 and R2 to be used for a bridged-tee attenuator.
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When the need arises to correct for poor power factor in an AC power…
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