Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to analyze relay…
Early computer science pioneers such as Alan Turing and John Von…
Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to analyze digital…
Another variation on a theme of bistable multivibrators is the J-K…
Most integrated circuits are digital, based on MOS (CMOS) transistors.…
A microcontroller is a specialized type of digital computer used to…
Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to analyze digital…
Parallel-in/ serial-out shift registers do everything that the…
Perhaps the most important consideration of an ADC is its resolution.…
Up to now, every circuit that was presented was a combinatorial…
One method of addressing the digital ramp ADC’s shortcomings is…
What is the purpose of a seven-segment decoder circuit? What is a…
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.
A bistable multivibrator has two stable states, as indicated by the…
Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to analyze digital…
So far, we’ve studied both S-R and D latch circuits with enable…
Feedback is a fascinating engineering principle. It can turn a rather…
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.
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.
Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to analyze digital…
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, build and test a 2-input digital NAND gate with LED indicators and learn to read pinout diagrams, power a digital IC, connect unused inputs and outputs, and use pulldown resistors.
Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to analyze digital…
With simple gate and combinational logic circuits, there is a definite…
Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…
Counting practice: count from zero to thirty-one in binary, octal, and…
Let’s count from zero to twenty using four different kinds of…
A demultiplexer, sometimes abbreviated dmux, is a circuit that has one…
Knowing how to generate Gray code should allow us to build larger…
Aside from the issues of the physical network (signal types and…
One caveat with signed binary numbers is that of overflow, where the…
If a pulse-width modulated (PWM) signal is sent to a passive…
In this collection of hands-on electronics experiments, build and test digital circuits and learn the fundamentals of digital logic circuits, including gates, counters, logic levels, hysteresis, memory, and more.
Counting practice: count from zero to thirty-one in binary, octal, and…
Identify each of these logic gates by name, and complete their…
As an example of using several circuits together, we are going to make…
The interlock contacts installed in the previous section’s motor…
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NAND and NOR gates possess a special property: they are universal.…
Digital logic gate circuits are manufactured as integrated circuits:…
This calculates values of the inductance, capacitance of an inductor and capacitor used in a Butterworth LC bandpass filter.
The superposition theorem is one of those strokes of genius that takes…
A thyristor is a device that has a number of unusual characteristics.…
In simple AC power systems, one of the two conductors is typically…
What Is an XOR Gate? One element conspicuously missing from the set of…
Determine if the light bulb will de-energize for each of the following…
What Is an Instrumentation Amplifier? An instrumentation amplifier…
This calculator helps you compute the characteristic impedance of an embedded microstrip.
Contributors to this chapter are listed in chronological order of…
The node voltage method of DC network analysis solves for unknown…
In this hands-on AC electronics experiment, an electronic musical keyboard will be used as a variable-frequency AC signal generator to learn the difference between AC amplitude and frequency.
In essence, the IGFET controls the base current of a BJT, which…
Inductive Reactance Capacitive Reactance …
Suppose we wished to measure the resistance of some component located…
Capacitors Vs. Resistors Capacitors do not behave the same as…
“All men are liable to error;” —John Locke Whereas…
We have the symbols for depletion mode and enhancement mode MOSFETs -…
Contributors to this chapter are listed in chronological order of…