Microprocessor Programming

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Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC)

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

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Programmable Logic Controllers

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

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Programmable Logic Technology

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

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Microcontroller Principles

Read the following quotation, and then research the term…

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Insulated Gate Field-Effect Transistors

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

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Performance-Based Assessments for Digital Circuit Competencies

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“Ladder” Diagrams

Ladder diagrams are specialized schematics commonly used to document…

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Shift Registers: Serial-in, Serial-out

Serial-in, serial-out shift registers delay data by one clock time for…

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555 Timer Astable Oscillator Circuit

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.

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Decoder

A decoder is a circuit that changes a code into a set of signals. It…

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Universal Shift Registers: Parallel-in, Parallel-out

The purpose of the parallel-in/ parallel-out shift register is to take…

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Why digital?

Although many textbooks provide good introductions to digital memory…

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Servo Motor Systems

Explain the operation of this “H-bridge” motor control circuit: At…

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Monostable Multivibrators

We’ve already seen one example of a monostable multivibrator in…

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Series-Parallel Combination AC Circuits

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

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Digital Logic Signals

A rheostat (variable resistor) and a switch are both examples of…

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Numeration Systems

Digital computers communicate with external devices through ports:…

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CMOS Logic Gates

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

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Don’t Care Cells in the Karnaugh Map

Up to this point we have considered logic reduction problems where…

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Programmable Logic Controllers

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

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Basic Logic Gates

Identify the type of logic gate shown in this schematic diagram, and…

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Finite-state Machine

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

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Digital-to-Analog Conversion

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

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Digital Display Circuits

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

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Time-delay Relays

What are Time-Delay Relays? Some relays are constructed with a kind of…

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Current Mirror BJTs

Bipolar Junction Transistor or BJT Current Mirror An often-used…

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Finite-length Transmission Lines

A transmission line of infinite length is an interesting abstraction,…

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Solving for Unknown Time

Sometimes it is necessary to determine the length of time that a…

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Op-Amp Practical Considerations

Real operational amplifiers have some imperfections compared to an…

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Impedance Transformation

Standing waves at the resonant frequency points of an open- or…

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High-Reliability Circuits

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

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Amplifier Circuits

Note, Q3 and Q4 in the figure below are complementary, NPN and PNP…

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Unit Conversion Calculator

Convert to and from different units of length, weight, power, temperature and torque

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Reluctance Motor

The variable reluctance motor is based on the principle that an…

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Inverting Op-Amp Resistor Calculator

This calculator determines the bias and feedback of resistors for an inverting op-amp.

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Si Lab - Full-wave Bridge Rectifier With Output Filtering

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.

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Microstrip Max Current Calculator

A calculator for solving the maximum current a microstrip can handle.

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Noise Figure Calculator

A tool designed to calculate the noise figure of cascaded amplifiers

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Derivative of a Constant

    (“c” being a constant)   RELATED…

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Series Resistor-Inductor Circuits

In the previous section, we explored what would happen in simple…

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Resonance in Series-Parallel Circuits

In simple reactive circuits with little or no resistance, the effects…

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Applications of Resonance

So far, the phenomenon of resonance appears to be a useless curiosity,…

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Susceptance and Admittance

What is Conductance? In the study of DC circuits, the student of…

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Digital Lab - S-R Latch Using NOR Gates

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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Decimal versus Binary Numeration

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

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