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Memory with moving parts: “Drives”

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

Historical, Nonmechanical Memory Technologies

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

Shift Registers

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

Shift Registers

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

Historical, Nonmechanical Memory Technologies

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

Digital Memory Terms and Concepts

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

Modern Nonmechanical Memory

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

Power Density Calculator

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A tool designed to calculate the power density of an antenna

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.

Microprocessors

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

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…

Memory with moving parts: “Drives”

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

Flash ADC

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

Read-Only Memory (ROM)

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

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.

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:…

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.

TTL NAND and AND gates

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

Design Project: Sensitive Audio Detector

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The choice of step-down transformers to use in a project such as this…

Conventional Transistor Overview and Special Transistors

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A microcontroller is a specialized type of digital computer used to…

PN Junctions

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

AC Lab - Sensing AC Electric Fields

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In this hands-on AC electronics experiment, you will sense AC electric fields using the sensitive voltage detector and learn about capacitive coupling, EMI, and shielding techniques.

Memory with moving parts: “Drives”

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

Convert MCD to Lumens

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

Arithmetic with Scientific Notation

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The benefits of scientific notation do not end with ease of writing…

Trigonometric Derivatives

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    RELATED WORKSHEETS: Calculus for Electric Circuits…

Three-phase Transformer Circuits

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Since three-phase is used so often for power distribution systems, it…

Depletion-type IGFETs

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Insulated gate field-effect transistors are unipolar devices just like…

What Is the Skin Effect?

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The Skin Depth of Copper in Electrical Engineering As previously…

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.

Solving for Unknown Time

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Sometimes it is necessary to determine the length of time that a…

Capacitor Impedance Calculator

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This tool calculates a capacitor's reactance for a given capacitance value and signal frequency.

Inductor Voltage and Current Relationship

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Inductors do not have a stable “resistance” as conductors…

Open-Loop OpAmp Circuits

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Determine what the magnitude and polarity of the voltmeter’s…

Analog-to-Digital Conversion

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

DC Transducers

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Research and describe what the Hall effect is, and list some practical…

Power Quality Measurement

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It used to be with large AC power systems that “power…

Why L/R and not LR?

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Learn About L/R Time Constants It is often perplexing to new students…