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Performance-Based Assessments for Semiconductor Circuit Competencies

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Digital Communication

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

Practical considerations - Digital Communication

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A principal consideration for industrial control networks, where the…

Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC)

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

Embedded Microstrip Impedance Calculator

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

Memory Devices

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

Binary Overflow

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

Semiconductor Manufacturing Techniques

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The manufacture of only silicon based semiconductors is described…

Microprocessor Programming

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The “vocabulary” of instructions which any particular…

Binary Addition

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

Binary Subtraction

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

Semiconductor Devices in SPICE

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The SPICE (Simulation Program, Integrated Circuit Emphesis)…

Pulse Width Modulation

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

AC Motor Control Circuits

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Perhaps the most challenging aspect of interpreting ladder diagrams,…

Synchronous Counters

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

Quantum Devices

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

Performance-Based Assessments for Semiconductor Circuit Competencies

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DC Lab - An Analog Computer For Averaging

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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.

Microprocessor Programming

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

Decoder

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

Introduction to Shift Registers

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Shift registers, like counters, are a form of sequential logic.…

Negative Binary Numbers

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

Design Project: DC Motor

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The armature windings of your DC motor will have very low resistance.…

Insulated-gate Field-effect Transistors (MOSFET)

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The Insulated-Gate Field-Effect Transistor (IGFET), also known as…

Ohm’s Law Practice Worksheet With Answers

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Define the following terms: energy, work, and power.

OpAmp Oscillator Circuits

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

Protective Relays

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A special type of relay is one that monitors the current, voltage,…

Venn Diagrams and Sets

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Mathematicians use Venn diagrams to show the logical relationships of…

Performance-Based Assessments for AC Circuit Competencies

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Sum-of-Products and Product-of-Sums Expressions

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Identify each of these logic gates by name, and complete their…

Mutual Inductors

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Mutual inductors are inductors that capitalize the effect of mutual…

Convert MCD to Lumens

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This calculator is useful for calculating the luminous flux for LEDs where the angle is known.

DC Lab - Sensitive Voltage Detector With Audio Output

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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will construct a voltage detector with adjustable sensitivity and audio output, and you will learn a method for detecting small electrical signals without an oscilloscope.

AC Lab - Musical Keyboard as a Signal Generator

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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.

Finite State Machines

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

Nonlinear Conduction

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“Advances are made by answering questions. Discoveries are made…

RF Power Conversion Calculator

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A tool designed to convert RF power from watts to decibels and vice versa

Divided Feedback

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If we add a voltage divider to the negative feedback wiring so that…

Bit Grouping

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The singular reason for learning and using the binary numeration…

Op-amp Circuits

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

Si Lab - BJT Common-emitter Amplifier

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In this hands-on semiconductor electronics experiment, construct a common-emitter amplifier using a bipolar junction transistor (BJT) and learn about amplifier gain and feedback.

Contributors (10)

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Contributors to this chapter are listed in chronological order of…