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Historical, Nonmechanical Memory Technologies

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Perhaps the most ingenious technique was that of the delay line. A…

Power Density Calculator

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A tool designed to calculate the power density of an antenna

TTL NOR and OR gates

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TTL Circuit Analysis Let’s examine the following TTL circuit and…

Memory Devices

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

Programmable Logic Technology

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

Read-Only Memory (ROM)

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Read-only memory (ROM) is similar in design to static or dynamic RAM…

Modern Nonmechanical Memory

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Now we can proceed to studying specific types of digital storage…

Arc Flash and Arc Blast

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Electromechanical relays used to start and stop high-power electric…

Digital Memory Terms and Concepts

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When we store information in some kind of circuit or device, we not…

Shift Registers

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

Digital Lab - S-R Latch Using NOR Gates

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In this hands-on electronics experiment, build an S-R latch using two NOR gates and learn how this type of digital memory operates, including invalid states, race conditions, and the effects of output loading.

Memory with moving parts: “Drives”

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The earliest forms of digital data storage involving moving parts was…

Microprocessors

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Early computer science pioneers such as Alan Turing and John Von…

Digital Lab - S-R Flip-flop Using NAND Gates

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In this hands-on electronics experiment, build an edge-triggered S-R flip-flop, learn the difference between a latch and a flip-flop, and experience how a switch bounce can cause logic errors.

Flash ADC

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

TTL NAND and AND gates

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Suppose we altered our basic open-collector inverter circuit, adding a…

Digital Lab - S-R Latch With Enable Input using NAND Gates

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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build an S-R latch with an enabled input using four NAND gates and learn more about digital circuit functionality.

Semiconductor Devices in SPICE

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The SPICE (Simulation Program, Integrated Circuit Emphesis)…

LC Resonant Frequency Calculator

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A circuit with an inductor (L) and capacitor (C) connected in parallel or series will have a resonant frequency at which their impedances are equal. Given two of the three values—inductance, capacitance, or resonant frequency—this tool will calculate the missing third variable.

Design Project: Audio Power Amplifier

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Explain how the microphone in your amplifier works. How, exactly, does…

AC Lab - Phase Shift in a Capacitive Circuit

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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.

Scientific Notation and Metric Prefixes

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Write the following exponential expressions in expanded form: 101 =…

Introduction to Solid-state Device Theory

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This chapter will cover the physics behind the operation of…

The “Buffer” Gate

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If we were to connect two inverter gates together so that the output…

Si Lab - JFET Current Regulator

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In this hands-on semiconductor electronics experiment, build a junction field-effect transistor (JFET) current regulator and learn some of the advantages of JFETs over BJTs for current regulation.

Basic Oscilloscope Operation

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

What Are Zener Diodes?

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What Is a Zener Diode? A Zener diode is a special type of rectifying…

Microphones

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Explain how a moving-coil, or dynamic microphone works. Identify how…

Digital Ramp ADC

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Also known as the stairstep-ramp, or simply counter A/D converter,…

Analog Lab - 555 Ramp Signal Generator

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In this hands-on electronics experiment, construct a signal generator circuit that creates two different types of ramp signals and learn how capacitors charge when connected to resistors and constant current sources.

Advanced Electromagnetism and Electromagnetic Induction

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∫f(x) dx Calculus alert! Electronic power conversion circuits known…

TTL NOR and OR gates

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TTL Circuit Analysis Let’s examine the following TTL circuit and…

DC Branch Current Analysis

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

Building a Differential Amplifier

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Differential Op-Amp Circuits An op-amp with no feedback is already a…

Intro Lab - Build an Electromagnet

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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build an electromagnet and learn about electromagnetism including the relationship of magnetic polarity to current flow.

Microprocessor Programming

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The “vocabulary” of instructions which any particular…

Other Specialized Motors

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Shaded Pole Induction Motor An easy way to provide starting torque to…

Electrical Transients

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This chapter explores the response of capacitors and inductors to…

Microstrip Impedance Calculator

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This calculator helps you compute the characteristic impedance of a microstrip.

Δ-Y and Y-Δ Conversions

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In many circuit applications, we encounter components connected…

Introduction to Digital Communication

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In the design of large and complex digital systems, it is often…

Calculating Power Factor

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As was mentioned before, the angle of this “power…

Decibel Measurements

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During the early development of telephone technology, a unit was…

Hyperbolic Functions

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

Series Circuits and the Application of Ohm’s Law

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In this introduction to series resistance circuits, we will explain…

High-Reliability Circuits

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

DC Lab - Potato Battery

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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will create a battery from a potato (yes! a potato) and learn about the relationship between chemical energy and electric energy.

Simple Vector Addition

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Remember that vectors are mathematical objects just like numbers on a…

Link Budget Calculator

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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.

Simulating JFET Circuits Using LTspice

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Learn about junction field effect transistors (JFETs), their equations, and how to model and simulate JFETs in LTspice.

Optoelectronic Devices

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In this circuit, the electric motor is supposed to turn on whenever…

CMOS Gate Circuitry

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Up until this point, our analysis of transistor logic circuits has…

Historical, Nonmechanical Memory Technologies

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Perhaps the most ingenious technique was that of the delay line. A…

Ammeter Design

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What would happen to this meter movement, if connected directly to a…

Superposition Theorem

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The superposition theorem is one of those strokes of genius that takes…

The J-K Flip-Flop

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Another variation on a theme of bistable multivibrators is the J-K…

Special-output Gates

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Complementary Output Gates It is sometimes desirable to have a logic…