The “vocabulary” of instructions which any particular…
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The purpose of the parallel-in/ parallel-out shift register is to take…
Most integrated circuits are digital, based on MOS (CMOS) transistors.…
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A bistable multivibrator has two stable states, as indicated by the…
If the output of a shift register is fed back to the input. a ring…
In the design of large and complex digital systems, it is often…
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A microcontroller is a specialized type of digital computer used to…
We can construct a simple logic functions for our hypothetical lamp…
One method of addressing the digital ramp ADC’s shortcomings is…
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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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A serial-in, parallel-out shift register is similar to the serial-in,…
The circuit shown here is a four-bit analog-to-digital converter…
What is a Synchronous Counter? A synchronous counter, in contrast to…
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Read-only memory (ROM) is similar in design to static or dynamic RAM…
What is a Synchronous Counter? A synchronous counter, in contrast to…
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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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Before the advent of solid-state logic circuits, logical control…
When someone mentions the word “computer,” a digital…
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Guidelines to Series-Parallel Combination Circuit Analysis The goal of…
If we were to connect two inverter gates together so that the output…
What does it mean, in general terms, to encode something? Conversely,…
Early computer science pioneers such as Alan Turing and John Von…
Up until this point, our analysis of transistor logic circuits has…
The logic simplification examples that we have done so far could have…
It is sometimes useful in logic circuits to have a multivibrator which…
We’ve already seen one example of a monostable multivibrator in…
Counting practice: count from zero to thirty-one in binary, octal, and…
Complementary Output Gates It is sometimes desirable to have a logic…
Point-to-Point Connecting two digital devices with a network, would…
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Many electronic circuits use what is called a split or a dual power…
A very important measurement in many liquid chemical processes…
“Garbage in, garbage out.” —Anonymous SPICE is a…
In the simplest terms you can think of, define what an electrical…
(a) Crystal radio. (b) Modulated RF at antenna. (c) Rectified RF at…
A waveguide is a special form of transmission line consisting of a…
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Previously, we examined series circuits and parallel circuits using…
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The wires between the tank and the monitoring location is called…
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A helpful tool for computing the Effective Isotropic Radiated Power (EIRP) of an antenna
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What hazards might be posed by a circuit with excessive current going…
As we saw in a few SPICE analyses earlier in this chapter, the output…
The Use of Logic Gate Inverters and buffers exhaust the possibilities…