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Performance-Based Assessments for Semiconductor Circuit Competencies

Performance-Based Assessments for Semiconductor Circuit Competencies


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Digital Communication

Digital Communication

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


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Pulse Width Modulation

Pulse Width Modulation

Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) uses digital signals to control power…


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Decoder

Decoder

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


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Negative Binary Numbers

Negative Binary Numbers

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


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Quantum Devices

Quantum Devices

Most integrated circuits are digital, based on MOS (CMOS) transistors.…


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Look-up Tables

Look-up Tables

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


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Digital Communication

Digital Communication

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


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Binary Subtraction

Binary Subtraction

We can subtract one binary number from another by using the standard…


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DC Lab - An Analog Computer For Averaging

DC Lab - An Analog Computer For Averaging

In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build a simple circuit that computes the average of voltages and learn about analog computers and their application.


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Memory Devices

Memory Devices

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


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Semiconductor Manufacturing Techniques

Semiconductor Manufacturing Techniques

The manufacture of only silicon based semiconductors is described…


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Performance-Based Assessments for Semiconductor Circuit Competencies

Performance-Based Assessments for Semiconductor Circuit Competencies


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Binary Addition

Binary Addition

The Rules of Binary Addition Adding binary numbers is a very simple…


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Embedded Microstrip Impedance Calculator

Embedded Microstrip Impedance Calculator

This calculator helps you compute the characteristic impedance of an embedded microstrip.


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Finite State Machines

Finite State Machines

Up to now, every circuit that was presented was a combinatorial…


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Synchronous Counters

Synchronous Counters

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


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Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC)

Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC)

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


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AC Motor Control Circuits

AC Motor Control Circuits

Perhaps the most challenging aspect of interpreting ladder diagrams,…


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Binary Overflow

Binary Overflow

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


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Microprocessor Programming

Microprocessor Programming

What is the difference between a JMP (“jump”) instruction and a…


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Microprocessor Programming

Microprocessor Programming

The “vocabulary” of instructions which any particular…


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Δ-Y and Y-Δ Conversions

Δ-Y and Y-Δ Conversions

In many circuit applications, we encounter components connected…


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Link Budget Calculator

Link Budget Calculator

A Link Budget puts into account all gains and losses a signal goes through in a system as it is transmitted. The calculator calculates the power of the received signal given amplifier and antenna gains, and medium loss.


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Multiplexers

Multiplexers

A multiplexer, abbreviated mux, is a device that has multiple inputs…


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DC Lab - An Analog Computer For Averaging

DC Lab - An Analog Computer For Averaging

In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build a simple circuit that computes the average of voltages and learn about analog computers and their application.


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Switches

Switches

What is the purpose of the switch shown in this schematic diagram?


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The Common-collector Amplifier

The Common-collector Amplifier

Our next transistor configuration to study is a bit simpler for gain…


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Class C BJT Amplifiers

Class C BJT Amplifiers

A common class of operation used in radio-frequency (RF) amplifier…


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Wattmeter Design

Wattmeter Design

Power in an electric circuit is the product (multiplication) of…


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Basic Logic Gates

Basic Logic Gates

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


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Special Diodes

Special Diodes

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


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The Antiderivative (Indefinite Integral)

The Antiderivative (Indefinite Integral)

  Notice something important here: taking the derivative of f(x)…


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Stepper Motors

Stepper Motors

Stepper Motor vs Servo Motor A stepper motor is a…


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AC Lab - Phase Shift in a Capacitive Circuit

AC Lab - Phase Shift in a Capacitive Circuit

In this hands-on AC electronics experiment, build a simple RC circuit that demonstrates phase shift and learn how out-of-phase AC voltages do not add algebraically.


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Contributors (1)

Contributors (1)

Contributors to this chapter are listed in chronological order of…


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AC Metrology

AC Metrology

In power distribution systems, it is very important to be able to…


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Contributors (4)

Contributors (4)

Contributors to this chapter are listed in chronological order of…


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Performance-Based Assessments for Basic Electricity Competencies

Performance-Based Assessments for Basic Electricity Competencies

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Contributors (3)

Contributors (3)

<p> Contributors to this chapter are listed in chronological…


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Look-up Tables

Look-up Tables

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


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Component Modeling

Component Modeling

When plotted on a curve tracer, the characteristic curve for a normal…


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