Created to provide a safer and more cost effective lab environment, these innovative manuals introduce new methods to learning and understanding circuit analysis concepts by using Electronics Workbench to simulate actual lab experiments on the computer. Using the latest circuit simulation software, they allow for easy circuit modification, more extensive troubleshooting experiments, and more powerful computational tools. Readers work with circuits drawn on the computer screen and with simulated instruments that act like actual laboratory instruments. Circuits can be modified easily with on-screen editing, and analysis results provide fast, accurate feedback. The manuals provide extensive technical preparation for each interactive experiment, and a series of questions about the results of each experiment requires users to think about and to analyze the results of the experiments in more depth than is customary in other lab manuals. The manual examines diodes, bipolar transistors, field-effect transistors, operational amplifiers, amplifier frequency response, active filters, and oscillators. For individuals interested in fine tuning their knowledge of electronic devises using Electronics Workbench.

The accompanying CD-ROM includes all of the troubleshooting circuits and all of the circuits needed to perform the experiments.

COMBINATIONAL LOGIC CIRCUITS. 1. Preliminary Concepts. 2. Logic Gates: INVERTER, OR, and AND. 3. Logic Gates: NAND and NOR. 4. Boolean Theorems. 5. Universality of NAND and NOR Gates. 6. Analyzing Combinational Logic Circuits. 7. Simplifying Combinational Logic Circuits. 8. Logic Simplification Using Karnaugh Maps. 9. Designing Combinational Logic Circuits. 10. Troubleshooting Combinational Logic Circuits. II. ARITHMETIC LOGIC CIRCUITS. 11. Logic Gates: XOR and XNOR. 12. Arithmetic Circuits. 13. Parallel Binary Adder. 14. BCD Adder. 15. Parity Generator/Checker. 16. Magnitude Comparator. 17. Troubleshooting Arithmetic Circuits. III. MSI LOGIC CIRCUITS. 18. Decoders and Encoders. 19. Multiplexers and Demultiplexers. 20. Troubleshooting MSI Logic Circuits. IV. SEQUENTIAL LOGIC CIRCUITS. 21. S-R and D Latches. 22. Edge-triggered Flip-Flops. 23. Monostable and Astable Multivibrators. 24. Registers and Data Storage. 25. Asynchronous Counters. 26. Synchronous Counters. 27. BCD Counters. 28. Troubleshooting Sequential Logic Circuits. V. INTERFACING THE ANALOG WORLD. 29. Digital-to-Analog Converters. 30. Analog-to-Digital Converters. 31. Data Acquisition. Appendix A. IC Chip Pin Diagrams. Appendix B. Notes on Using Electronics Workbench. Bibliography.

For courses in Electric Circuits. This unique and innovative laboratory manual helps students learn and understand circuit analysis concepts by using Electronic Workbench software to simulate actual laboratory experiments on a computer. Students work with circuits drawn on the computer screen and with simulated instruments that act like actual laboratory instruments. Circuits can be modified easily with on-screen editing, and analysis results provide fast, accurate feedback. "Hands-on" in approach throughout - in both interactive experiments and a series of questions about the results of each experiment - it is more cost effective, safer, and more thorough and efficient than using hardwired experiments. This lab manual can be sold for use with any DC/AC text. Note: This book no longer comes with a CD. Any reference to a CD within the book is out of date and will be updated on our next printing. The information from the CD is available online: http: //media.pearsoncmg.com/ph/chet/chet_electronics_student_1/ Click on Older Titles

This textbook for a one- or two-semester course covers electronic devices and circuits, including troubleshooting and practical applications. The first section is devoted to discrete devices and circuits while the second covers linear integrated circuits. A sampling of topics includes special-purpose diodes, power amplifiers, field-effect transistors, oscillators, and voltage regulators. The fourth edition features a new chapter on communications circuits. The CD-ROM contains exercises and problems using Electronics Workbench 5 and Electronics Workbench Multisim 6 circuit files. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.

This unique and innovative manual reinforces the theories learned in electronic communications classes. By performing a series of interactive experiments simulated on the computer and by answering questions about the results of each experiment, students will develop a clearer understanding of the theories that they have learned in the classroom. The 23 computer-simulated experiments do not require extensive laboratory facilities, and circuits can be modified easily with on-screen editing. The analysis results provide faster and better feedback than a series of lab experiments using hardwired circuits. For those who desire a hardwired laboratory environment, circuit diagrams and parts lists are provided for each experiment. An extensive theory section and a series of troubleshooting problems are also included in each experiment. The CD-ROM packaged with the text contains the circuits needed to perform the experiments, the troubleshooting circuits, and a student version of Electronics Workbench Multisim(TM).

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