The half-adder is extremely useful until you want to add more than one…
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Let’s begin with a semiconductor gate circuit in need of…
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Knowing how to generate Gray code should allow us to build larger…
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Add the following binary numbers:
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Up until this point, our analysis of transistor logic circuits has…
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The logic simplification examples that we have done so far could have…
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We can subtract one binary number from another by using the standard…
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Although many textbooks provide good introductions to digital memory…
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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, you will build an S-R latch with an enabled input using four NAND gates and learn more about digital circuit functionality.
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Now we can proceed to studying specific types of digital storage…
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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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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to analyze digital…
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Identify each of these logic gates by name, and complete their…
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What Is an XOR Gate? One element conspicuously missing from the set of…
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One of the more advanced ADC technologies is the so-called…
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Feedback is a fascinating engineering principle. It can turn a rather…
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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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Define the following acronyms as they apply to digital logic circuits:…
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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to analyze digital…
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As an example of using several circuits together, we are going to make…
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Logic circuits, whether comprised of electromechanical relays or…
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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…
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Digital computers communicate with external devices through ports:…
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So far, we’ve only been able to escape the sheer volume of…
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A Logic Gate is assigned as an elementary building block of…
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Counting practice: count from zero to thirty-one in binary, octal, and…
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“I consider that I understand an equation when I can predict the…
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In this hands-on semiconductor electronics experiment, build a simple DC voltage regulator circuit and learn how to use reverse-biased Zener diodes as voltage clamps.
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Contributors to this chapter are listed in chronological order of…
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When calculating the power dissipation of resistive components, we can…
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This calculator helps determine the maximum temperature a device can withstand
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A tool designed to calculate the characteristic impedance of a twisted-pair cable
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There was some historic crude, but usable semiconductor…
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Capacitors do not have a stable “resistance” as conductors…
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Stepper Motor vs Servo Motor A stepper motor is a…
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What is Rectification? Now we come to the most popular application of…
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An often neglected area of study in modern electronics is that of…
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Digital logic gate circuits are manufactured as integrated circuits:…
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A parallel circuit is often called a current divider for its ability…
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This calculator will convert pressure values to ten different standard units for pressure.
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In the common-emitter section of this chapter, we saw a SPICE analysis…
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The instrumentation amplifier calculator will assist in the design and analysis of a conventional instrumentation amplifier circuit by calculating the required resistor values and gain.
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