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Basic Electromagnetic Relays

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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to analyze relay…

Microprocessors

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Early computer science pioneers such as Alan Turing and John Von…

Counters

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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to analyze digital…

The J-K Flip-Flop

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Another variation on a theme of bistable multivibrators is the J-K…

Quantum Devices

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Most integrated circuits are digital, based on MOS (CMOS) transistors.…

Conventional Transistor Overview and Special Transistors

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A microcontroller is a specialized type of digital computer used to…

Digital Communication

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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to analyze digital…

Shift Registers: Parallel-in, Serial-out (PISO) Conversion

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Parallel-in/ serial-out shift registers do everything that the…

Practical Considerations of ADC Circuits

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Perhaps the most important consideration of an ADC is its resolution.…

Finite State Machines

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Up to now, every circuit that was presented was a combinatorial…

Successive Approximation ADC

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One method of addressing the digital ramp ADC’s shortcomings is…

Digital Display Circuits

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What is the purpose of a seven-segment decoder circuit? What is a…

555 Lab - LED Flasher with Inductive Flyback

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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.

The S-R Latch

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A bistable multivibrator has two stable states, as indicated by the…

Shift Registers

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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to analyze digital…

Edge-triggered Latches: Flip-Flops

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So far, we’ve studied both S-R and D latch circuits with enable…

Finite-state Machine

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Feedback is a fascinating engineering principle. It can turn a rather…

555 Timer Astable Oscillator Circuit

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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.

Digital Lab - 10-bit Flashing LED Sequencer

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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.

Stepper Motors

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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to analyze digital…

Vol IV. Credits

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All entries arranged in alphabetical order of surname. Major…

Digital Lab - Basic 2-Input NAND Gate Circuit

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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.

Flip-Flop Circuits

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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to analyze digital…

Digital Logic With Feedback

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With simple gate and combinational logic circuits, there is a definite…

Series-Parallel Combination AC Circuits

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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…

TTL Logic Gates

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Counting practice: count from zero to thirty-one in binary, octal, and…

Decimal versus Binary Numeration

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Let’s count from zero to twenty using four different kinds of…

Demultiplexers

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A demultiplexer, sometimes abbreviated dmux, is a circuit that has one…

Larger 4-variable Karnaugh Maps

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Knowing how to generate Gray code should allow us to build larger…

Network Protocols

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Aside from the issues of the physical network (signal types and…

Binary Overflow

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One caveat with signed binary numbers is that of overflow, where the…

Digital-to-Analog Conversion

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If a pulse-width modulated (PWM) signal is sent to a passive…

Digital Lab - Introduction

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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.

CMOS Logic Gates

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Counting practice: count from zero to thirty-one in binary, octal, and…

Karnaugh Mapping

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Identify each of these logic gates by name, and complete their…

Using Multiple Combinational Circuits

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As an example of using several circuits together, we are going to make…

Motor Control Circuits

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The interlock contacts installed in the previous section’s motor…

Vol III. Credits

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All entries arranged in alphabetical order of surname. Major…

Performance-Based Assessments for Digital Circuit Competencies

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Gate Universality

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NAND and NOR gates possess a special property: they are universal.…

DIP Gate Packaging

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Digital logic gate circuits are manufactured as integrated circuits:…

Bandpass Filter Calculator

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This calculates values of the inductance, capacitance of an inductor and capacitor used in a Butterworth LC bandpass filter.

Superposition Theorem

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The superposition theorem is one of those strokes of genius that takes…

The Thyristor

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A thyristor is a device that has a number of unusual characteristics.…

Safety Grounding

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In simple AC power systems, one of the two conductors is typically…

The Exclusive-OR Function: The XOR Gate

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What Is an XOR Gate? One element conspicuously missing from the set of…

Basic Circuit Troubleshooting

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Determine if the light bulb will de-energize for each of the following…

The Instrumentation Amplifier

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What Is an Instrumentation Amplifier? An instrumentation amplifier…

Embedded Microstrip Impedance Calculator

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This calculator helps you compute the characteristic impedance of an embedded microstrip.

Performance-Based Assessments for Network Analysis Competencies

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Contributors (10)

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Contributors to this chapter are listed in chronological order of…

Node Voltage Method

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The node voltage method of DC network analysis solves for unknown…

AC Lab - Musical Keyboard as a Signal Generator

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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.

Transistors, Hybrid

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In essence, the IGFET controls the base current of a BJT, which…

AC Circuit Equations

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Inductive Reactance     Capacitive Reactance    …

Kelvin (4-wire) Resistance Measurement

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Suppose we wished to measure the resistance of some component located…

AC Capacitor Circuits

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Capacitors Vs. Resistors Capacitors do not behave the same as…

Likely Failures in Unproven Systems

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“All men are liable to error;” —John Locke Whereas…

Transistors, Insulated-gate Field-effect (IGFET or MOSFET)

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We have the symbols for depletion mode and enhancement mode MOSFETs -…

Contributors (1)

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Contributors to this chapter are listed in chronological order of…