Performance-Based Assessments for Semiconductor Circuit Competencies

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Digital Communication

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

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Resistor Color Code Calculator and Chart—4 Band, 5 Band, or 6 Band Resistors

A handy all-in-one tool for reading resistor color code values for a 4 band resistor, 5 band resistor, or 6 band resistor.

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Performance-Based Assessments for Semiconductor Circuit Competencies

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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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Negative Binary Numbers

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

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Digital Communication

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

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Programmable Logic Technology

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

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Finite State Machines

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

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Microprocessor Programming

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

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Decoder

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

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Binary Subtraction

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

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AC Motor Control Circuits

Perhaps the most challenging aspect of interpreting ladder diagrams,…

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Si Lab - Intro to Discrete Semiconductor Circuits

In these hands-on semiconductor electronics experiments, learn to build and test circuits using discrete silicon (Si) devices, including diodes and transistors. Also, learn important circuit designs, including rectifiers, current mirrors, amplifiers, and oscillators.

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Quantum Devices

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

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Microprocessor Programming

The “vocabulary” of instructions which any particular…

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Embedded Microstrip Impedance Calculator

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

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Flash ADC

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

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Binary Addition

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

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Semiconductor Devices in SPICE

The SPICE (Simulation Program, Integrated Circuit Emphesis)…

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Memory Devices

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

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Semiconductor Manufacturing Techniques

The manufacture of only silicon based semiconductors is described…

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Si Lab - A Simple BJT Current Mirror Circuit

In this hands-on semiconductor electronics experiment, build a simple current mirror using matched bipolar junction transistors (BJTs) and learn about current mirror circuit limitations, the temperature dependence of BJTs, and thermal runaway.

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Solving for Unknown Time

Sometimes it is necessary to determine the length of time that a…

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Polyphase Motor Design

AC Motors Perhaps the most important benefit of polyphase AC power…

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Basic Oscilloscope Operation

An oscilloscope is a very useful piece of electronic test equipment.…

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The Junction Field-effect Transistor (JFET) as a Switch

Like its bipolar cousin, the field-effect transistor may be used as an…

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The Cascode Amplifier

While the C-B (common-base) amplifier is known for wider bandwidth…

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Networks and Busses

The wires between the tank and the monitoring location is  called…

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Basic Logic Gate Troubleshooting

Counting practice: count from zero to thirty-one in binary, octal, and…

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Reflection Attenuator Calculator

This tool is designed to calculate the value of resistance R1 in a reflection attenuator.

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Embedded Microstrip Impedance Calculator

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

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Battery Life Calculator

This calculator provides three options—basic, intermediate, and advanced—for determining expected battery life for microcontroller, Internet of Things (IoT), and edge processing systems with up to four different operating modes.

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Design Project: Logic Probe

What factors determine where potentiometers Rpot1 and Rpot2 must be…

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Mutual Inductance

When an electric current is passed through a coil of wire, what…

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Mutual Inductance and Basic Operation

Behaviors of Inductors wrapped around a Conductive Core Suppose we…

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Digital Lab - Digital Combination Lock

In this hands-on electronics experiment, build a digital combination lock with LED output indicators and learn about XOR gate functionality and how to implement NOR logic functionality using diodes.

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Impedance

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

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AC Commutator Motors

Charles Proteus Steinmetz’s first job after arriving in America…

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The Exclusive-OR Function: The XOR Gate

What Is an XOR Gate? One element conspicuously missing from the set of…

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High-Reliability Circuits

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

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DC Generator Theory

Generators used in battery-charging systems must be regulated so as to…

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