The earliest forms of digital data storage involving moving parts was…
Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to analyze digital…
Now we can proceed to studying specific types of digital storage…
When we store information in some kind of circuit or device, we not…
Perhaps the most ingenious technique was that of the delay line. A…
Early computer science pioneers such as Alan Turing and John Von…
Also called the parallel A/D converter, this circuit is the simplest…
Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to analyze digital…
A tool designed to calculate the power density of an antenna
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 with an enabled input using four NAND gates and learn more about digital circuit functionality.
TTL Circuit Analysis Let’s examine the following TTL circuit and…
Suppose we altered our basic open-collector inverter circuit, adding a…
Early computer science pioneers such as Alan Turing and John Von…
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.
The earliest forms of digital data storage involving moving parts was…
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) is similar in design to static or dynamic RAM…
Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to analyze digital…
Now we can proceed to studying specific types of digital storage…
Perhaps the most ingenious technique was that of the delay line. A…
Electromechanical relays used to start and stop high-power electric…
Define the following acronyms as they apply to digital logic circuits:…
The metric system, besides being a collection of measurement units for…
Bipolar junction transistors (Also known as BJTs) can be used as an…
When calculating the power dissipation of resistive components, we can…
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.
As an electric current is passed through a coil of wire, it creates a…
A circuit which removes the peak of a waveform is known as a clipper.…
The expression of numerical quantities is something we tend to take…
So far we know that AC voltage alternates in polarity and AC current…
In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will construct a voltage detector with adjustable sensitivity and audio output, and you will learn a method for detecting small electrical signals without an oscilloscope.
Contributors to this chapter are listed in chronological order of…
There are three major kinds of power supplies: unregulated (also…
The R/2R DAC circuit is an alternative to the binary-weighted-input…
Boolean algebra finds its most practical use in the simplification of…
So far, we’ve explored tubes which are totally…
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.
Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…
If a sinusoidal voltage is applied to an impedance with a phase angle…
Whenever electrons flow through a conductor, a magnetic field will…
In this hands-on AC electronics experiment, use a PC-based oscilloscope program to observe waveforms from a musical keyboard and learn basic oscilloscope operation.
The half-adder is extremely useful until you want to add more than one…