This video provides an introduction to the internal components of typical smoke detectors.
Part 1 of this series provides an overview of the basics of an FMEDA and its usefulness in system…
What is the difference between a JMP (“jump”) instruction and a…
Read the following quotation, and then research the term…
Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) uses digital signals to control power…
We can subtract one binary number from another by using the standard…
Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to analyze digital…
A decoder is a circuit that changes a code into a set of signals. It…
A semiconductor device is one made of silicon or any number of other…
Having learned about digital memory devices in the last chapter, we…
The Rules of Binary Addition Adding binary numbers is a very simple…
One caveat with signed binary numbers is that of overflow, where the…
The manufacture of only silicon based semiconductors is described…
With addition being easily accomplished, we can perform the operation…
PARTS AND MATERIALS Four 6 volt batteries One capacitor, 100 µF…
Before the advent of solid-state logic circuits, logical control…
A handy tool for reading resistor color code values
Shift registers, like counters, are a form of sequential logic.…
Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to analyze digital…
A principal consideration for industrial control networks, where the…
This calculator helps you compute the characteristic impedance of an embedded microstrip.
What is a Synchronous Counter? A synchronous counter, in contrast to…
Most integrated circuits are digital, based on MOS (CMOS) transistors.…
Perhaps the most challenging aspect of interpreting ladder diagrams,…
Given two lengths of metal wire, which one will have the least…
Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…
Feedback is a fascinating engineering principle. It can turn a rather…
Explain the principle of operation for the particular integrated…
This calculator determines the bias and feedback of resistors for a non-inverting Op-Amp
Most integrated circuits are digital, based on MOS (CMOS) transistors.…
The logic simplification examples that we have done so far could have…
Designing Wire Resistance Conductor ampacity rating is a crude…
PARTS AND MATERIALS Two single-turn, linear-taper potentiometers, 5…
This balanced attenuator calculator helps you determine the resistor (R1) values for a balanced attenuator.
As lengthy as this chapter has been up to this point, it only begins…
Note, Q3 and Q4 in the figure below are complementary, NPN and PNP…
See Figure below. Periodic table of chemical elements.
Computerized Fourier analysis, particularly in the form of the FFT…
The first, and perhaps most important, the relationship between…
This calculator helps you compute for the inductance of an edge coupled trace.
A modern alternative to sending (binary) digital information via…
An important electrical quantity with no equivalent in DC circuits is…
The field effect transistor was proposed by Julius Lilienfeld in US…
