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Practical considerations - Digital Communication

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A principal consideration for industrial control networks, where the…

Performance-Based Assessments for Semiconductor Circuit Competencies

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Network Protocols

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Aside from the issues of the physical network (signal types and…

A 50-Ohm Cable?

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Early in my explorations of electricity, I came across a length of…

Microcontroller Principles

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Read the following quotation, and then research the term…

Waveguides

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A waveguide is a special form of transmission line consisting of a…

Digital Display Circuits

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What is the purpose of a seven-segment decoder circuit? What is a…

Optical Data Communication

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A modern alternative to sending (binary) digital information via…

Digital Communication

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Network Topology

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Point-to-Point Connecting two digital devices with a network, would…

Networks and Busses

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

Analog-to-Digital Conversion

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The circuit shown here is a four-bit analog-to-digital converter…

Passive Filter Circuits

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In very simple, qualitative terms, rate the impedance of capacitors…

Oscillator Circuits

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Data Flow

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Buses and networks are designed to allow communication to occur…

Passive Filter Circuits

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In very simple, qualitative terms, rate the impedance of capacitors…

Inverting and Noninverting OpAmp Voltage Amplifier Circuits

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Network Protocols

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Aside from the issues of the physical network (signal types and…

Digital Communication

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Switched Capacitor Circuitry

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Write an equation describing the precise mathematical relationship…

Performance-Based Assessments for Semiconductor Circuit Competencies

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A 50-Ohm Cable?

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Early in my explorations of electricity, I came across a length of…

Thevenin’s, Norton’s, and Maximum Power Transfer Theorems

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Suppose a 12 volt lead-acid battery has an internal resistance of 20…

CMOS Logic Gates

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

Power Conversion Circuits

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Series and Parallel AC Circuits

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Time Constant Calculations

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Summer and Subtractor OpAmp Circuits

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DC Mesh Current Analysis

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Timer Circuits

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Counters

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Electromechanical Relay Logic

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In ladder logic symbolism, an electromechanical relay coil is shown as…

Clipper and Clamper Circuits

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RF Power Conversion Calculator

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

Vol I. Credits

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All entries arranged in alphabetical order of surname. Major…

Differentiator and Integrator Circuits

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By introducing electrical reactance into the feedback loops of an…

Circuits and the Speed of Light

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Suppose we had a simple one-battery, one-lamp circuit controlled by a…

The R/2nR DAC: Binary-Weighted-Input Digital-to-Analog Converter

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What Is a R/2nR DAC Circuit? The R/2nR DAC circuit, otherwise known as…

Printed Circuit Board Layout and Manufacture

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When a PCB designer speaks of dimensions in thous or mils, what does…

Single-phase Power Systems

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Single phase power system schematic diagram shows little about the…

Ohm’s Law - How Voltage, Current, and Resistance Relate

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The first, and perhaps most important, relationship between current,…

Passive Integrator and Differentiator Circuits

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∫f(x) dx Calculus alert! Calculus is a branch of mathematics that…

DC Generator Theory

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

Potentiometers

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Hyperbolic Functions

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Note: all angles (x) must be expressed in units of radians for these…

Transistor Biasing Calculations

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Although transistor switching circuits operate without bias, it is…

Digital-to-Analog Conversion

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If a pulse-width modulated (PWM) signal is sent to a passive…

Encoders and Decoders

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What does it mean, in general terms, to encode something? Conversely,…

Analog-to-Digital Conversion

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The circuit shown here is a four-bit analog-to-digital converter…

Optothyristors

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Like bipolar transistors, SCRs and TRIACs are also manufactured as…

Special-purpose Batteries

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Mercury Standard Cell Back in the early days of electrical measurement…

Minterm vs Maxterm Solution

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So far we have been finding Sum-Of-Product (SOP) solutions to logic…

Asynchronous Counters

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In the previous section, we saw a circuit using one J-K flip-flop that…