In the design of large and complex digital systems, it is often…
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A rheostat (variable resistor) and a switch are both examples of…
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What is the purpose of a seven-segment decoder circuit? What is a…
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A bistable multivibrator has two stable states, as indicated by the…
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The circuit shown here is a four-bit analog-to-digital converter…
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Another variation on a theme of bistable multivibrators is the J-K…
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We can construct a simple logic functions for our hypothetical lamp…
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Early computer science pioneers such as Alan Turing and John Von…
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Although many textbooks provide good introductions to digital memory…
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The half-adder is extremely useful until you want to add more than one…
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The “vocabulary” of instructions which any particular…
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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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Also called the parallel A/D converter, this circuit is the simplest…
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Identify the type of logic gate shown in this schematic diagram, and…
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, build an S-R latch using two NOR gates and learn how this type of digital memory operates, including invalid states, race conditions, and the effects of output loading.
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Also known as the stairstep-ramp, or simply counter A/D converter,…
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Perhaps the most ingenious technique was that of the delay line. A…
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Because binary numeration requires so many bits to represent…
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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to analyze digital…
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Most integrated circuits are digital, based on MOS (CMOS) transistors.…
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Guidelines to Series-Parallel Combination Circuit Analysis The goal of…
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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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A demultiplexer, sometimes abbreviated dmux, is a circuit that has one…
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Boolean algebra finds its most practical use in the simplification of…
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Before the advent of solid-state logic circuits, logical control…
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Parallel-in/ serial-out shift registers do everything that the…
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In this collection of hands-on electronics experiments, build and test mixed-signal analog and digital circuits using the versatile 555 timer IC. These projects will teach you about RC time constants, duty cycle, transistor current drive, LEDs, voltage doublers, and more.
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The term “combinational” comes to us from mathematics. In…
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Electricity and Magnetism An electric current through a conductor will…
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The Maximum Power Transfer Theorem is not so much a means of analysis…
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Roman Numerals The Romans devised a system that was a substantial…
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Most AC motors are induction motors. Induction motors are favored due…
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Introduction This third volume of the book series Lessons In Electric…
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In this hands-on AC electronics experiment, use the frequency spectrum display from an oscilloscope program to observe waveforms from a musical keyboard and learn about spectral analysis.
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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.
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The jobs of electronics engineers and technicians frequently entail…
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A demultiplexer, sometimes abbreviated dmux, is a circuit that has one…
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will learn about electromagnetic induction using an electromagnet and a permanent magnet.
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As with inductors, the ideal capacitor is a purely reactive device,…
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Wire-by-Number project: simple voltage divider Description: Build a…
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The single-transistor inverter circuit illustrated earlier is actually…
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Since Thevenin’s theorem and Norton’s theorems are two…
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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…
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RELATED WORKSHEETS: Calculus for Electric Circuits…
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build a simple circuit that computes the average of voltages and learn about analog computers and their application.
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Inductive Reactance Capacitive Reactance …
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In order to work with complex numbers without drawing vectors, we…
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Impedance Matching Because transformers can step voltage and current…
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Mutual inductors are inductors that capitalize the effect of mutual…
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