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Programmable Logic Technology

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

Insulated Gate Field-Effect Transistors

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Microprocessor Programming

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The “vocabulary” of instructions which any particular…

Microcontroller Principles

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Read the following quotation, and then research the term…

Programmable Logic Controllers

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

Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC)

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

Time-delay Relays

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

Bipolar Junction Transistors as Switches

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Solid-state switching circuits usually keep their constituent…

Digital Communication

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Digital Signals and Gates

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While the binary numeration system is an interesting mathematical…

DeMorgan’s Theorems

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A mathematician named DeMorgan developed a pair of important rules…

Boolean Arithmetic

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Let us begin our exploration of Boolean algebra by adding numbers…

Op-amp Circuits

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Octal and Hexadecimal to Decimal Conversion

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Although the prime intent of octal and hexadecimal numeration systems…

Microprocessors

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Early computer science pioneers such as Alan Turing and John Von…

Differentiator and Integrator Circuits

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By introducing electrical reactance into the feedback loops of an…

Design Project: Logic Probe

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What factors determine where potentiometers Rpot1 and Rpot2 must be…

Gate Universality

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NAND and NOR gates possess a special property: they are universal.…

Converting Truth Tables into Boolean Expressions

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In designing digital circuits, the designer often begins with a truth…

Oscillator Circuits

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Binary Overflow

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One caveat with signed binary numbers is that of overflow, where the…

Digital Lab - 3-bit Binary Counter

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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.

Flash ADC

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Also called the parallel A/D converter, this circuit is the simplest…

The “Buffer” Gate

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

Digital Logic With Feedback

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With simple gate and combinational logic circuits, there is a definite…

CMOS Gate Circuitry

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

Negative Binary Numbers

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With addition being easily accomplished, we can perform the operation…

Free Space Path Loss Calculator

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This calculator calculates the free space loss, given the distance, frequency, and gain, between two antennas.

Bit Grouping

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The singular reason for learning and using the binary numeration…

Look-up Tables

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Having learned about digital memory devices in the last chapter, we…

Parallel Wire Inductance Calculator

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This tool is designed to calculate the inductance of two parallel wires

Circuit Components

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Remember that this tutorial is not exhaustive by any means, and that…

Amplifier Circuits

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

LC Resonant Frequency Calculator

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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.

Octal and Hexadecimal Numeration

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Because binary numeration requires so many bits to represent…

555 Lab - Schmitt Trigger

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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.

Synchronous Counters

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What is a Synchronous Counter? A synchronous counter, in contrast to…

Active Loads in Amplifier Circuits

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We know that the current in a series circuit may be calculated with…

Timer Circuits

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What is Alternating Current (AC)?

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Most students of electricity begin their study with what is known as…

Electrical Noise and Interference

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Define what noise means, in the electrical sense of the word. How does…

Winding Configurations

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Transformers with Multiple Secondaries Transformers are very versatile…

Tube Lab - Vacuum Tube Audio Amplifier

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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.

AC Motor Control Circuits

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Perhaps the most challenging aspect of interpreting ladder diagrams,…

Superposition Theorem

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TTL NAND and AND gates

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Suppose we altered our basic open-collector inverter circuit, adding a…