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Light-Pulse Switch

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

Latch Circuits

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What do you think this logic buffer gate will do, with the output…

Shift Registers

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

The S-R Latch

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A bistable multivibrator has two stable states, as indicated by the…

Boolean Algebraic Properties

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Another type of mathematical identity, called a “property”…

Encoders and Decoders

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What does it mean, in general terms, to encode something? Conversely,…

Counters

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

Basic Logic Gates

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

The NOT Gate

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The single-transistor inverter circuit illustrated earlier is actually…

Digital Lab - S-R Latch Using NOR Gates

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In this hands-on electronics experiment, build an S-R latch using two NOR gates and learn how this type of digital memory operates, including invalid states, race conditions, and the effects of output loading.

Programmable Logic Technology

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Define the following acronyms as they apply to digital logic circuits:…

Special-output Gates

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Complementary Output Gates It is sometimes desirable to have a logic…

Fail-safe Design

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Logic circuits, whether comprised of electromechanical relays or…

Ring Counters

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

Multiple-input Gates

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The Use of Logic Gate Inverters and buffers exhaust the possibilities…

Finite State Machines

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Up to now, every circuit that was presented was a combinatorial…

Digital-to-Analog Conversion

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If a pulse-width modulated (PWM) signal is sent to a passive…

Binary Math Circuits

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Add the following binary numbers:

Flip-Flop Circuits

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

Boolean Algebra

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Op-amp Circuits

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Switch Types

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

Oscillator Circuits

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Sum-of-Products and Product-of-Sums Expressions

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Identify each of these logic gates by name, and complete their…

Introduction to Shift Registers

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Shift registers, like counters, are a form of sequential logic.…

Light-Pulse Switch

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

Introduction to Karnaugh Mapping

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Why learn about Karnaugh maps? The Karnaugh map, like Boolean…

Fail-safe Design

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Logic circuits, whether comprised of electromechanical relays or…

Binary Count Sequence

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If we examine a four-bit binary count sequence from 0000 to 1111, a…

Shift Registers: Serial-in, Parallel-out (SIPO) Conversion

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A serial-in, parallel-out shift register is similar to the serial-in,…

Time-delay Relays

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What are Time-Delay Relays? Some relays are constructed with a kind of…

Practical Considerations of ADC Circuits

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Perhaps the most important consideration of an ADC is its resolution.…

Quantum Devices

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

Boolean Algebraic Properties

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Another type of mathematical identity, called a “property”…

Multiplexers

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A multiplexer, abbreviated mux, is a device that has multiple inputs…

Design Project: Stepper Motor Driver

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At first it may seem pointless to have the four buffer gates following…

Digital Display Circuits

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What is the purpose of a seven-segment decoder circuit? What is a…

Boolean Algebra

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

Sum and Product Notation

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For reference, this section introduces the terminology used in some…

Analog Lab - 555 Ramp Signal Generator

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In this hands-on electronics experiment, construct a signal generator circuit that creates two different types of ramp signals and learn how capacitors charge when connected to resistors and constant current sources.

Design Project: Event Counter

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If your event sensing switch is mechanical in nature, you will likely…

555 Lab - Monostable Multivibrator (One-shot)

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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build a monostable multivibrator using a 555 timer IC and learn about RC time constant charging and how a one-shot timer operates.

Power Density Calculator

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A tool designed to calculate the power density of an antenna

Decibels

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The Bel is Used to Represent Gain In its simplest form, an…

Design Project: Telegraph System

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What voltage will you choose to use for each of the station batteries?

Three-phase Transformer Circuits

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Since three-phase is used so often for power distribution systems, it…

Meter Check of a Diode

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The Functionality of Diode Polarity Being able to determine the…

Sources of Electricity

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What is the difference between DC and AC electricity? Identify some…

Simple Parallel (Tank Circuit) Resonance

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Resonance in a Tank Circuit A condition of resonance will be…

Design Project: DC Motor

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The armature windings of your DC motor will have very low resistance.…

Millman’s Theorem

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

Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistors

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What is an Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistor (IGBT), and what…

Radio Circuits

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(a) Crystal radio. (b) Modulated RF at antenna. (c) Rectified RF at…

Battery Construction

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The word battery simply means a group of similar components. In…

Voltage Divider Circuits

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

IC Fabrication and Packaging

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What does it mean if an integrated circuit comes in DIP form? What…

Elementary Circuits

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In the simplest terms you can think of, define what an electrical…

Negative Feedback

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If we connect the output of an op-amp to its inverting input and apply…

Soldering

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Both soldering irons and soldering guns are tools used in the process…

VSWR / Return Loss Calculator

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A calculator designed to compute the VSWR, reflection coefficient, return loss and matching loss in a transmission line