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What do you think this logic buffer gate will do, with the output…
Although many textbooks provide good introductions to digital memory…
The wires between the tank and the monitoring location is called…
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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.
The purpose of the parallel-in/ parallel-out shift register is to take…
Read the following quotation, and then research the term…
Up to now, every circuit that was presented was a combinatorial…
A decoder is a circuit that changes a code into a set of signals. It…
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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What does it mean, in general terms, to encode something? Conversely,…
Identify the type of logic gate shown in this schematic diagram, and…
We can construct a simple logic functions for our hypothetical lamp…
Because binary numeration requires so many bits to represent…
Using an electrical meter safely and efficiently is perhaps the most…
Up to this point we have considered logic reduction problems where…
Complementary Output Gates It is sometimes desirable to have a logic…
A mathematician named DeMorgan developed a pair of important rules…
What is the purpose of a seven-segment decoder circuit? What is a…
By introducing electrical reactance into the feedback loops of an…
A common topology for DC-AC power converter circuits uses a pair of…
In this hands-on electronics experiment, build a digital combination lock with LED output indicators and learn about XOR gate functionality and how to implement NOR logic functionality using diodes.
In the design of large and complex digital systems, it is often…
Ladder diagrams are specialized schematics commonly used to document…
Early computer science pioneers such as Alan Turing and John Von…
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This calculator computes the resonant frequency of a parallel inductor and capacitor "tank" circuit.
This calculator helps you compute the characteristic impedance of a broadside coupled stripline.
Ladder diagrams are specialized schematics commonly used to document…
This calculator provides three options—basic, intermediate, and advanced—for determining expected battery life for microcontroller, Internet of Things (IoT), and edge processing systems with up to four different operating modes.
A microcontroller is a specialized type of digital computer used to…
Calculate the equivalent resistance of up to six resistors in parallel with ease while learning how to calculate resistance in parallel and the parallel resistance formula.
To express a quantity in a different metric prefix from how it was…
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All About Contactors When a relay is used to switch a large amount of…
Just like voltmeters, ammeters tend to influence the amount of current…
The word battery simply means a group of similar components. In…
Logic circuits, whether comprised of electromechanical relays or…
Define the following acronyms as they apply to digital logic circuits:…
What is Conductance? In the study of DC circuits, the student of…
An electromechanical generator is a device capable of producing…
In ladder logic symbolism, an electromechanical relay coil is shown as…
Example Derivatives of e Proportionality Constant When we say that a…
A circuit which removes the peak of a waveform is known as a clipper.…
In this hands-on AC electronics experiment, build a variable conductor and learn the impact of a metal core placed inside an inductor coil has on the inductance.
Contributors to this chapter are listed in chronological order of…
