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A handy tool for reading resistor color code values
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This calculator helps you compute the characteristic impedance of an embedded microstrip.
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A decoder is a circuit that changes a code into a set of signals. It…
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The manufacture of only silicon based semiconductors is described…
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The SPICE (Simulation Program, Integrated Circuit Emphesis)…
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This tool calculates a capacitor's reactance for a given capacitance value and signal frequency.
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Learn About L/R Time Constants It is often perplexing to new students…
Thyristors are a broad classification of bipolar-conducting…
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Who Developed the Karnaugh Map? Maurice Karnaugh, a…
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One method of addressing the digital ramp ADC’s shortcomings is…
Current Components in a series circuit share the same current: Itotal…
Specific resistance at 20o C: Material Element/Alloy ohm-cmil/ft…
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The field effect transistor was proposed by Julius Lilienfeld in US…
The Q factor of a series inductive circuit is given by the following…
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Digital circuits are circuits dealing with signals restricted to the…
(a) Crystal radio. (b) Modulated RF at antenna. (c) Rectified RF at…
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Like its bipolar cousin, the field-effect transistor may be used as an…
A mathematician named DeMorgan developed a pair of important rules…
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PARTS AND MATERIALS Two NPN transistors—models 2N2222 or…
Note, Q3 and Q4 in the figure below are complementary, NPN and PNP…
In the beam power tube, the basic four-element structure of the…
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What does the acronym RF stand form, in reference to radio-related…
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In addition to voltage and current, there is another important…
