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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…

Digital Memory Terms and Concepts

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

Memory Devices

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Modern Nonmechanical Memory

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

Historical, Nonmechanical Memory Technologies

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

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.

Flash ADC

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

Power Density Calculator

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A tool designed to calculate the power density of an antenna

Digital Memory Terms and Concepts

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

Read-Only Memory (ROM)

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

TTL NOR and OR gates

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

Historical, Nonmechanical Memory Technologies

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

Memory with moving parts: “Drives”

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

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.

Shift Registers

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TTL NAND and AND gates

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

Memory Devices

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Arc Flash and Arc Blast

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

Modern Nonmechanical Memory

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

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.

Microprocessors

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

Basic Logic Gate Troubleshooting

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Counting practice: count from zero to thirty-one in binary, octal, and…

Capacitor Types

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A capacitor is a passive two-terminal electronic component that…

Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC)

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Before the advent of solid-state logic circuits, logical control…

T-Match Impedance Matching Circuits

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A tool designed to compute the values to be used in a T-match Impedance Circuit

N-Way Power Divider Calculator

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This calculator determines the total path loss provided by an RF n-way power splitter.

Link Budget Calculator

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A Link Budget puts into account all gains and losses a signal goes through in a system as it is transmitted. The calculator calculates the power of the received signal given amplifier and antenna gains, and medium loss.

Scientific Notation

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

SPICE Simulation of Series and Parallel Circuits

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Previously, we examined series circuits and parallel circuits using…

The Command-line Interface

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If you’ve used DOS or UNIX operating systems before in a…

Amplifiers

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Practical Benefit of Active Devices The practical benefit of active…

Measurement Circuits

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Figure below shows a photodiode amplifier for measuring low levels of…

BJT Amplifier Troubleshooting

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As an instructor of electronics, I am called upon frequently to help…

Contributors (2)

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Contributors to this chapter are listed in chronological order of…

The R/2R DAC (Digital-to-Analog Converter)

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The R/2R DAC circuit is an alternative to the binary-weighted-input…

Regulated Power Sources

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Memory Devices

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The S-R Latch

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A bistable multivibrator has two stable states, as indicated by the…

Multi-Stage Transistor Amplifiers

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DC Lab - Potentiometric Voltmeter

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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build a null-balancing potentiometric voltmeter and learn how to prevent a voltmeter from changing the voltage it is measuring.

Stepper Motors

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