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Microcontroller Principles

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Read the following quotation, and then research the term…

Insulated Gate Field-Effect Transistors

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

Programmable Logic Controllers

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The Programmable Logic Controller, or PLC, was invented in the late…

Programmable Logic Technology

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Define the following acronyms as they apply to digital logic circuits:…

Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC)

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Before the advent of solid-state logic circuits, logical control…

Microprocessor Programming

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The “vocabulary” of instructions which any particular…

The NOT Gate

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The single-transistor inverter circuit illustrated earlier is actually…

Sum-of-Products and Product-of-Sums Expressions

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

Vol IV. Credits

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All entries arranged in alphabetical order of surname. Major…

Timer Circuits

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Light-Pulse Switch

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It is fairly important to use large value resistors (10 MΩ works…

Boolean Rules for Simplification

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Boolean algebra finds its most practical use in the simplification of…

Introduction to Combinational Logic Functions

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The term “combinational” comes to us from mathematics. In…

DeMorgan’s Theorems

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A mathematician named DeMorgan developed a pair of important rules…

Networks and Busses

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The wires between the tank and the monitoring location is  called…

Digital Lab - S-R Latch Using NOR Gates

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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.

CMOS Gate Circuitry

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Up until this point, our analysis of transistor logic circuits has…

Oscillator Circuits

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Digital Display Circuits

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

Fail-safe Design

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Logic circuits, whether comprised of electromechanical relays or…

Motor Control Circuits

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

Microprocessor Programming

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The “vocabulary” of instructions which any particular…

Tracking ADC

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A third variation on the counter-DAC-based converter theme is, in my…

Programmable Logic Technology

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Define the following acronyms as they apply to digital logic circuits:…

The “Buffer” Gate

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If we were to connect two inverter gates together so that the output…

Stepper Motors

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

Superposition Theorem

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

Hyperbolic Functions

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Note: all angles (x) must be expressed in units of radians for these…

Amplifier Gain

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The Voltage Gain Because amplifiers have the ability to increase the…

Binary Addition

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The Rules of Binary Addition Adding binary numbers is a very simple…

Power in Electric Circuits

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In addition to voltage and current, there is another important…

Memory with moving parts: “Drives”

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The earliest forms of digital data storage involving moving parts was…

Time Constant Circuits

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Generally speaking, how many “time constants” worth of time does…

Phase Rotation

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Three-Phase Alternator Let’s take the three-phase alternator…

Calculus for Electric Circuits

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∫f(x) dx Calculus alert! Calculus is a branch of mathematics that…

Digital Lab - S-R Flip-flop Using NAND Gates

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In this hands-on electronics experiment, build an edge-triggered S-R flip-flop, learn the difference between a latch and a flip-flop, and experience how a switch bounce can cause logic errors.

Half-Adder

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As a first example of useful combinational logic, let’s build a…

Si Lab - Full-wave Bridge Rectifier With Output Filtering

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In this hands-on semiconductor experiment, build an improved full-wave rectifier with output filtering and learn about capacitive filtering in AC-to-DC power converters.

Electrical Connections

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What, exactly, is necessary to establish electrical continuity between…

Kelvin (4-wire) Resistance Measurement

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

Impedance Matching With Transformers

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Suppose you were to take a 3 kW electric heater rated for 240 VAC and…

Zener Diodes

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

Biasing Techniques (BJT)

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In the common-emitter section of this chapter, we saw a SPICE analysis…

DC Lab - Potato Battery

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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will create a battery from a potato (yes! a potato) and learn about the relationship between chemical energy and electric energy.

Contributors (8)

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Contributors to this chapter are listed in chronological order of…

Inductive Reactance

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