Define the following acronyms as they apply to digital logic circuits:…
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The Programmable Logic Controller, or PLC, was invented in the late…
Before the advent of solid-state logic circuits, logical control…
What are Time-Delay Relays? Some relays are constructed with a kind of…
Solid-state switching circuits usually keep their constituent…
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While the binary numeration system is an interesting mathematical…
A mathematician named DeMorgan developed a pair of important rules…
Let us begin our exploration of Boolean algebra by adding numbers…
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Although the prime intent of octal and hexadecimal numeration systems…
Early computer science pioneers such as Alan Turing and John Von…
By introducing electrical reactance into the feedback loops of an…
What factors determine where potentiometers Rpot1 and Rpot2 must be…
NAND and NOR gates possess a special property: they are universal.…
In designing digital circuits, the designer often begins with a truth…
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One caveat with signed binary numbers is that of overflow, where the…
In this hands-on electronics experiment, build a 3-bit down counter using J-K flip-flops and learn about asynchronous counter functionality.
Also called the parallel A/D converter, this circuit is the simplest…
If we were to connect two inverter gates together so that the output…
With simple gate and combinational logic circuits, there is a definite…
Up until this point, our analysis of transistor logic circuits has…
With addition being easily accomplished, we can perform the operation…
This calculator calculates the free space loss, given the distance, frequency, and gain, between two antennas.
The singular reason for learning and using the binary numeration…
Having learned about digital memory devices in the last chapter, we…
This tool is designed to calculate the inductance of two parallel wires
Remember that this tutorial is not exhaustive by any means, and that…
Note, Q3 and Q4 in the figure below are complementary, NPN and PNP…
A circuit with an inductor (L) and capacitor (C) connected in parallel or series will have a resonant frequency at which their impedances are equal. Given two of the three values—inductance, capacitance, or resonant frequency—this tool will calculate the missing third variable.
Because binary numeration requires so many bits to represent…
In this hands-on electronics experiment, build a Schmitt trigger using a 555 timer and learn about hysteresis and the inner workings of the extremely versatile 555 timer IC.
What is a Synchronous Counter? A synchronous counter, in contrast to…
We know that the current in a series circuit may be calculated with…
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Most students of electricity begin their study with what is known as…
Define what noise means, in the electrical sense of the word. How does…
Transformers with Multiple Secondaries Transformers are very versatile…
In this hands-on electronics experiment, build an audio amplifier using a vacuum tube (triode) and learn about voltage transformers, how to build a high-voltage DC power supply, and how to use a transformer for impedance matching.
Perhaps the most challenging aspect of interpreting ladder diagrams,…
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Suppose we altered our basic open-collector inverter circuit, adding a…
