The circuit shown here is a four-bit analog-to-digital converter…
In the common-emitter section of this chapter, we saw a SPICE analysis…
A modern method of electrical power control involves inserting a…
Perhaps the most important consideration of an ADC is its resolution.…
The R/2R DAC circuit is an alternative to the binary-weighted-input…
With BogusBus, our signals were very simple and straightforward: each…
Although many textbooks provide good introductions to digital memory…
A modern method of electrical power control involves inserting a…
It is a common phenomenon for the electrical resistance of a substance…
AC Motors Perhaps the most important benefit of polyphase AC power…
What is a harmonic frequency? If an oscillator circuit outputs a…
In this hands-on AC electronics experiment, an electronic musical keyboard will be used as a variable-frequency AC signal generator to learn the difference between AC amplitude and frequency.
One of the more advanced ADC technologies is the so-called…
What Is a R/2nR DAC Circuit? The R/2nR DAC circuit, otherwise known as…
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.
Explain the difference between a balanced polyphase system and an…
Most AC motors are induction motors. Induction motors are favored due…
In instrumentation circuitry, DC signals are often used as analog…
In the common-emitter section of this chapter, we saw a SPICE analysis…
What shape of voltage waveform would you expect to measure (using an…
A third variation on the counter-DAC-based converter theme is, in my…
This calculates values of the inductance, capacitance of an inductor and capacitor used in a Butterworth LC bandpass filter.
You might have noticed on the table for specific resistances that all…
So far, we’ve only been able to escape the sheer volume of…
Counting practice: count from zero to thirty-one in binary, octal, and…
Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…
In this hands-on AC electronics experiment, you will use an AC voltage source connected to speakers to learn about sound waves and the foundational principle used in noise cancelling headphones.
As opposed to normal equations where the solution is a number, a…
“Garbage in, garbage out.” —Anonymous SPICE…
The Bel is Used to Represent Gain In its simplest form, an…
Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…
What is a Synchronous Counter? A synchronous counter, in contrast to…
Calculate circuit parameters using Ohm's Law
The Voltage Gain Because amplifiers have the ability to increase the…
An oscilloscope is a very useful piece of electronic test equipment.…
In an ideal case, an inductor acts as a purely reactive device. That…
In addition to voltage and current, there is another important…
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This calculator will compute the required resistor ratio (R2/R1) and reference voltage (VREF) to create the desired high (VTH) and low (VTL) threshold voltages in a non-inverting comparator circuit with hysteresis (commonly called a Schmitt trigger).
For bipolar junction transistors, the fundamental measure of…
Definition of a Factorial Denoted by the symbol “!” after…
A chandelier has five light bulbs in it, and one of them is not…
Like all diodes, Shockley diodes are unidirectional devices; that is,…
Let’s count from zero to twenty using four different kinds of…