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Shift Registers

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Digital Memory Terms and Concepts

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

Power Density Calculator

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A tool designed to calculate the power density of an antenna

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.

Historical, Nonmechanical Memory Technologies

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

TTL NOR and OR gates

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

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.

Memory Devices

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Flash ADC

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

Arc Flash and Arc Blast

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

Programmable Logic Technology

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

Modern Nonmechanical Memory

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

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…

TTL NAND and AND gates

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

Read-Only Memory (ROM)

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

Polar Form and Rectangular Form Notation for Complex Numbers

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In order to work with complex numbers without drawing vectors, we…

Beam Power Tubes

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In the beam power tube, the basic four-element structure of the…

Oscillator Circuits

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Phase shift oscillator. R1C1, R2C2, and R3C3 each provide 60° of…

Microstrip Impedance Calculator

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

IGFET Quirks

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Performance-Based Assessments for Analog Integrated Circuit Competencies

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Impedance Transformation

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Standing waves at the resonant frequency points of an open- or…

Digital-to-Analog Conversion

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

Op-amp Circuits

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High-Reliability Circuits

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Printed Circuit Board Layout and Manufacture

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

Binary Count Sequence

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If we examine a four-bit binary count sequence from 0000 to 1111, a…

Series LED Resistor Calculator

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This series LED resistance calculator is perfect for when you have a single LED or a number of the same color of LEDs in series and need to know which resistor you should use.

Si Lab - Differential Amplifier

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In this hands-on semiconductor electronics experiment, build a BJT differential amplifier and learn about a fundamental building block that is the basis of most operational amplifiers.

Early Tube History

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Thomas Edison, that prolific American inventor, is often credited with…

The common-drain Amplifier (JFET)

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Scientific Notation

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In many disciplines of science and engineering, very large and very…

Feedback

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If some percentage of an amplifier’s output signal is connected…

Inductor Sizing Equation

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The Inductance Formula     Wheeler’s formulas for…

CMOS Gate Circuitry

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

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.

Safety Grounding

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In simple AC power systems, one of the two conductors is typically…

The “Buffer” Gate

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

Differentiator and Integrator Circuits

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By introducing electrical reactance into the feedback loops of an…

Re-drawing Complex Schematics

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Typically, complex circuits are not arranged in nice, neat, clean…

Time Constant Circuits

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Generally speaking, how many “time constants” worth of time does…

Temperature Coefficients of Resistance Table

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Temperature coefficient (α) per degree C: Material Element/Alloy…

Flyback Switch Mode Regulator Calculator

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A calculator for computing several parameters needed in the design of a flyback switch mode regulator

Basic Ohmmeter Use

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Explain how an ohmmeter is able to measure the resistance of a…

Mutual Inductance

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

The Cascode Amplifier

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

Design Project: Audio Power Amplifier

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

Clipper Circuits

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A circuit which removes the peak of a waveform is known as a clipper.…

AC Lab - Using a Transformer to Build a 12 VAC Power Supply

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In this hands-on AC electronics experiment, build a 12 V alternating current (AC) power supply using a step-down transformer and learn about transformer operation and the purpose of tapped windings.

Circuits and the Speed of Light

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

Basic Electricity Worksheet

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What is the purpose of the switch shown in this schematic diagram?

Power in Electric Circuits

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In addition to voltage and current, there is another important…

Four-Channel Audio Mixer

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A very common misconception students have about potentiometers is the…

Vol VI. Credits

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The following is a partial list of contributors to the current online…

Superposition Theorem

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