Early computer science pioneers such as Alan Turing and John Von…
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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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At first it may seem pointless to have the four buffer gates following…
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In the design of large and complex digital systems, it is often…
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What is a Synchronous Counter? A synchronous counter, in contrast to…
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The wires between the tank and the monitoring location is called…
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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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Feedback is a fascinating engineering principle. It can turn a rather…
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One method of addressing the digital ramp ADC’s shortcomings is…
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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to analyze digital…
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The purpose of the parallel-in/ parallel-out shift register is to take…
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So far, we’ve studied both S-R and D latch circuits with enable…
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Perhaps the most ingenious technique was that of the delay line. A…
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In the previous section, we saw a circuit using one J-K flip-flop that…
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In ladder logic symbolism, an electromechanical relay coil is shown as…
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Most integrated circuits are digital, based on MOS (CMOS) transistors.…
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Although many textbooks provide good introductions to digital memory…
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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to analyze digital…
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A third variation on the counter-DAC-based converter theme is, in my…
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A microcontroller is a specialized type of digital computer used to…
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Counting practice: count from zero to thirty-one in binary, octal, and…
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Read-only memory (ROM) is similar in design to static or dynamic RAM…
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Another type of mathematical identity, called a “property”…
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Parallel-in/ serial-out shift registers do everything that the…
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A mathematician named DeMorgan developed a pair of important rules…
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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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As an example of using several circuits together, we are going to make…
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Guidelines to Series-Parallel Combination Circuit Analysis The goal of…
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will control a 7-segment binary-coded decimal (BCD) display and learn about active-low and active-high logic inputs.
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Why learn about Karnaugh maps? The Karnaugh map, like Boolean…
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In mathematics, an identity is a statement true for all possible…
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The interlock contacts installed in the previous section’s motor…
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The fourth example has A partially overlapping B. Though, we will…
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A rheostat (variable resistor) and a switch are both examples of…
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A Logic Gate is assigned as an elementary building block of…
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In this hands-on introduction to electronics, you will experiment with a multimeter and learn how to measure resistance using the ohmmeter function.
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Feedback is a fascinating engineering principle. It can turn a rather…
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Let us begin our exploration of Boolean algebra by adding numbers…
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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to analyze digital…
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While the binary numeration system is an interesting mathematical…
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Determine the output voltage polarity of this op-amp (with reference…
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As we saw with DC measurement circuits, the circuit configuration…
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In this electrical circuit, trace the direction of current through the…
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Resonance in a Tank Circuit A condition of resonance will be…
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Perhaps the most ingenious technique was that of the delay line. A…
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Circuits consisting of just one battery and one load resistance are…
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SPICE is a computer program designed to simulate analog electronic…
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Arithmetic Sequences An arithmetic sequence is a series of numbers…
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The Parallel Wires of Infinite Length Suppose, though, that we had a…
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When a transistor is in the fully-off state (like an open switch), it…
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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.
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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build capacitor charging and discharging circuits and learn how to calculate the RC time constant of resistor-capacitor circuits.
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In addition to forward voltage drop (Vf) and peak inverse voltage…
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Input impedance varies considerably with the circuit configuration…
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There are three major kinds of power supplies: unregulated (also…
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Value of time constant in series RC and RL circuits Time…
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This calculator gives the reactance and admittance of an inductor or the inductance given the reactance of an inductor
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This chapter will cover the physics behind the operation of…
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So far, we’ve explored tubes which are totally…
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