What do you think this logic buffer gate will do, with the output…
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With simple gate and combinational logic circuits, there is a definite…
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In designing digital circuits, the designer often begins with a truth…
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Up until this point, our analysis of transistor logic circuits has…
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Read the following quotation, and then research the term…
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Identify the type of logic gate shown in this schematic diagram, and…
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Boolean algebra finds its most practical use in the simplification of…
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Another variation on a theme of bistable multivibrators is the J-K…
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A microcontroller is a specialized type of digital computer used to…
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Let’s begin with a semiconductor gate circuit in need of…
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Explain the operation of this “H-bridge” motor control circuit: At…
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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to analyze digital…
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So far we have been finding Sum-Of-Product (SOP) solutions to logic…
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Using an electrical meter safely and efficiently is perhaps the most…
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A Logic Gate is assigned as an elementary building block of…
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, build a digital combination lock with LED output indicators and learn about XOR gate functionality and how to implement NOR logic functionality using diodes.
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A bistable multivibrator has two stable states, as indicated by the…
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Counting practice: count from zero to thirty-one in binary, octal, and…
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Logic circuits, whether comprised of electromechanical relays or…
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As a first example of useful combinational logic, let’s build a…
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A microcontroller is a specialized type of digital computer used to…
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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…
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Larger Karnaugh maps reduce larger logic designs. How large is large…
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With simple gate and combinational logic circuits, there is a definite…
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A bistable multivibrator has two stable states, as indicated by the…
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One caveat with signed binary numbers is that of overflow, where the…
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A multiplexer, abbreviated mux, is a device that has multiple inputs…
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For reference, this section introduces the terminology used in some…
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In the previous section, we saw a circuit using one J-K flip-flop that…
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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to analyze digital…
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A serial-in, parallel-out shift register is similar to the serial-in,…
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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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A common topology for DC-AC power converter circuits uses a pair of…
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Identify each of these logic gates by name, and complete their…
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So far, we’ve only been able to escape the sheer volume of…
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As an example of using several circuits together, we are going to make…
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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…
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What is an Encoder? An encoder is a circuit that changes a set 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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In mathematics, an identity is a statement true for all possible…
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This calculator determines the bias and feedback of resistors for an inverting op-amp.
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Older electrical schematics showed connecting wires crossing, while…
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Let’s count from zero to twenty using four different kinds of…
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If I needed to describe the distance between two cities, I could…
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It was discovered centuries ago that certain types of materials would…
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Contributors to this chapter are listed in chronological order of…
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So far, we’ve been analyzing single-battery, single-resistor…
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Circuits consisting of just one battery and one load resistance are…
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With simple series circuits, all components are connected end-to-end…
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Whenever electrons flow through a conductor, a magnetic field will…
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Thyristors are a broad classification of bipolar-conducting…
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Who Developed the Karnaugh Map? Maurice Karnaugh, a…
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will compare the resistance of a lamp filament in its on and off states and learn about nonlinear resistances by applying Ohm's law.
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A very important measurement in many liquid chemical processes…
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The term “combinational” comes to us from mathematics. In…
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Input impedance varies considerably with the circuit configuration…
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Since complex numbers are legitimate mathematical entities, just like…
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This series LED resistance calculator is perfect for when you have a single LED or a number of the same color of LEDs in series and need to know which resistor you should use.
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Like bipolar transistors, SCRs and TRIACs are also manufactured as…
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Contributors to this chapter are listed in chronological order of…
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