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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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to analyze digital…
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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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Up to now, every circuit that was presented was a combinatorial…
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The wires between the tank and the monitoring location is called…
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A third variation on the counter-DAC-based converter theme is, in my…
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A serial-in, parallel-out shift register is similar to the serial-in,…
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Parallel-in/ serial-out shift registers do everything that the…
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Serial-in, serial-out shift registers delay data by one clock time for…
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Perhaps the most ingenious technique was that of the delay line. A…
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The “vocabulary” of instructions which any particular…
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Another variation on a theme of bistable multivibrators is the J-K…
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Counting practice: count from zero to thirty-one in binary, octal, and…
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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to analyze digital…
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Solid-state switching circuits usually keep their constituent…
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In the previous section, we saw a circuit using one J-K flip-flop that…
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Early computer science pioneers such as Alan Turing and John Von…
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, build a Schmitt trigger using a 555 timer and learn about hysteresis and the inner workings of the extremely versatile 555 timer IC.
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Counting practice: count from zero to thirty-one in binary, octal, and…
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When we store information in some kind of circuit or device, we not…
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As a first example of useful combinational logic, let’s build a…
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Digital computers communicate with external devices through ports:…
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What Is a R/2nR DAC Circuit? The R/2nR DAC circuit, otherwise known as…
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The R/2R DAC circuit is an alternative to the binary-weighted-input…
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Counting practice: count from zero to thirty-one in binary, octal, and…
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Up to this point we have considered logic reduction problems where…
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, build a 3-bit down counter using J-K flip-flops and learn about asynchronous counter functionality.
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Also called the parallel A/D converter, this circuit is the simplest…
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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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Complementary Output Gates It is sometimes desirable to have a logic…
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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…
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Guidelines to Series-Parallel Combination Circuit Analysis The goal of…
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Perhaps the most important consideration of an ADC is its resolution.…
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Also known as the stairstep-ramp, or simply counter A/D converter,…
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Solid-state switching circuits usually keep their constituent…
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The half-adder is extremely useful until you want to add more than one…
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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.
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Passive Devices Components incapable of controlling current by means…
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∫f(x) dx Calculus alert! Electronic power conversion circuits known…
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Although transistor switching circuits operate without bias, it is…
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Write an equation describing the precise mathematical relationship…
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Euler’s Number Euler’s constant is an important value for…
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It used to be with large AC power systems that “power…
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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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Let’s connect three AC voltage sources in series and use complex…
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Current Components in a series circuit share the same current: Itotal…
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This calculator helps you compute the inductance of a wire-over-plane setup.
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The superposition theorem is one of those strokes of genius that takes…
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Power in an electric circuit is the product (multiplication) of…
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Decibel as Absolute Unit of Power It is also possible to use the…
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Contributors to this chapter are listed in chronological order of…
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∫f(x) dx Calculus alert! Calculus is a branch of mathematics that…
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In this hands-on introduction to electronics, you will experiment with a multimeter and learn how to measure current using the ammeter function.
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As we’ve already learned, electricity requires a complete path…
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Mathematical rules are based on the defining limits we place on the…
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