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Memory Devices

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

Power Density Calculator

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A tool designed to calculate the power density of an antenna

Flash ADC

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

Memory Devices

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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.

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 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.

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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Programmable Logic Technology

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

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.

Arc Flash and Arc Blast

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

TTL NOR and OR gates

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

Microprocessors

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

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…

Modern Nonmechanical Memory

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

Ammeter Impact on Measured Circuit

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Just like voltmeters, ammeters tend to influence the amount of current…

Numbers and Symbols

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The expression of numerical quantities is something we tend to take…

Maximum Power Transfer Theorem

Textbook

The Maximum Power Transfer Theorem is not so much a means of analysis…

Digital Ramp ADC

Textbook

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

Tubes versus Semiconductors

Textbook

Devoting a whole chapter in a modern electronics text to the design…

The Common-drain Amplifier (IGFET)

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The Cascode Amplifier

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

Voltage, Current, and Resistance

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Voltage is commonly defined as “electrical pressure.” The unit of…

Full-Adder

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The half-adder is extremely useful until you want to add more than one…

JFET Amplifiers

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Control Circuits

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Stripline Crosstalk Calculator

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This tool is designed to calculate cross-talk coefficient and coupled voltage for a stripline

Display Tubes

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In addition to performing tasks of amplification and switching, tubes…

Decimal versus Binary Numeration

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Let’s count from zero to twenty using four different kinds of…

Time Constant Equations

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Value of time constant in series RC and RL circuits   Time…

Computer Simulation of Electric Circuits

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Computers can be powerful tools if used properly, especially in the…

Depletion-type IGFETs

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

Lorentz Force Calculator

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This calculator will determine the combined Lorentz force exerted on a charged particle moving through both an electric field and a magnetic field.

Op-Amp Data

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Parametric data for all semiconductor op-amp models except the CA3130…

Q Factor and Bandwidth of a Resonant Circuit

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The Q, or quality, factor of a resonant circuit is a measure of the…