Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to analyze digital…
The earliest forms of digital data storage involving moving parts was…
Perhaps the most ingenious technique was that of the delay line. A…
Read-only memory (ROM) is similar in design to static or dynamic RAM…
TTL Circuit Analysis Let’s examine the following TTL circuit and…
In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build an S-R latch with an enable input using four NOR gates and learn more about digital circuit functionality.
Electromechanical relays used to start and stop high-power electric…
Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to analyze digital…
A tool designed to calculate the power density of an antenna
Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to analyze digital…
Now we can proceed to studying specific types of digital storage…
Early computer science pioneers such as Alan Turing and John Von…
The earliest forms of digital data storage involving moving parts was…
Suppose we altered our basic open-collector inverter circuit, adding a…
Perhaps the most ingenious technique was that of the delay line. A…
When we store information in some kind of circuit or device, we not…
In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will 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.
PARTS AND MATERIALS 4011 quad NAND gate (Radio Shack catalog #…
Define the following acronyms as they apply to digital logic circuits:…
Also called the parallel A/D converter, this circuit is the simplest…
At the beginning of this chapter, it illustrates how transistors could…
A serial-in, parallel-out shift register is similar to the serial-in,…
It should be common-sense knowledge that liquids flow through…
Resistors vs. Inductors Inductors do not behave the same way as…
It is sometimes desirable to have circuits capable of selectively…
All entries arranged in alphabetical order of surname. Major…
A three-phase motor may be run from a single-phase power source.…
Though mechanical ohmmeter (resistance meter) designs are rarely used…
When analyzing complex series and parallel circuits, it is easy to…
The Rules of Binary Addition Adding binary numbers is a very simple…
While the binary numeration system is an interesting mathematical…
This calculator helps you compute for the inductance of an edge coupled trace.
A helpful tool for calculating the impedance of a coaxial cable.
If you’ve ever witnessed a lightning storm, you’ve seen…
What is a harmonic frequency? If an oscillator circuit outputs a…
When the need arises to correct for poor power factor in an AC power…
What is Conductance? In the study of DC circuits, the student of…
In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build an analog differentiator circuit that outputs a signal proportional to the rate-of-change and learn about one of the advantages of analog circuits.
In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build capacitor charging and discharging circuits and learn how to calculate the RC time constant of resistor-capacitor circuits.
Since Thevenin’s theorem and Norton’s theorems are two…