Student Manual for The Art of ElectronicsLIST of LABORATORY EXERCISES
Laboratory Exercises(a more detailed listing)
PART I: ANALOG LABS
Lab 1. DC Circuits
Ohm's law; A Nonlinear device; The diode; Voltage divider;
Thevenin model; Oscilloscope; AC voltage divider
Lab 2. CapacitorsRC circuit; Differentiator; Integrator; Low-pass filter;
High-pass filter; Filter example I; Filter example II; Blocking capacitor; LC filter
Lab 3. DiodesLC resonant circuit; Confirming Fourier series; Half-wave rectifier;
Full-wave bridge rectifier; Ripple; Signal diodes; Diode Clamp;
Diode limiter; Impedances of test instruments
Lab 4. Transistors I
Transistor junctions are diodes; Emitter follower;
Transistor current gain; Current source; Common emitter amplifier;
Transistor switch
Lab 5. Transistors II
Dynamic diode curve tracer; Grounded emitter amplifier;
Current mirror; Ebers-Moll equation; Biasing: good & bad; Push-Pull
Lab 6. Transistors III
Differential amplifier; Bootstrap; Miller effect;
Darlington; Superbeta
Lab 7. Field Effect Transistors I
FET characteristics; FET current sources; Source follower;
FET as Voltage-controlled resistance; Amplitude modulation;
'Radio broadcast'
Lab 8. Op Amps I
Op-amp open-loop gain; Inverting amplifier; Non- inverting amplifier;
Follower; Current source; Current-to-voltage converter;
Summing amplifier; Push-pull buffer
Lab 9. Op Amps II
Op-amp limitations; AC amplifier; Integrator; Differentiator;
Active rectifier; Active Clamp
Lab 10. Oscillators
Comparator; Schmitt trigger; IC relaxation oscillator;
Sawtooth wave oscillator; ; Voltage-controlled oscillator;
Wien bridge sine oscillator; Unwanted oscillations:
discrete follower & op amp stability problems
Lab 11. Field Effect Transistors II
Analog switch characteristics; Applications: chopper circuit;
sample-&-hold; switched-capacitor filters;
negative voltage from positive
Lab 12. Power Supplies
The 723 regulator; Three- terminal fixed regulator;
Three-terminal adjustable regulator;
Three-terminal regulator as current source; Voltage reference;
'Crowbar' Clamp
PART II: DIGITAL LABS
Lab 13. Gates
Logic probe; IC gates: TTL & CMOS; Logic functions with NANDs;
Gate innards: TTL; CMOS: CMOS NOT, NAND, 3-state
Lab 14. Flip-Flops
Latch; D flop; J-K flop; Ripple counter; Synchronous counter;
Shift-register; Digitally-timed one-shot
Lab 15. Counters
8-bit counter; Cascading; Load from keypad;
Programmable divide-by-n counter; Period meter; Capacitance meter
Lab 16. Memory; State Machines
RAM; Divide-by-3 (your design); Memory-based state machines:
Single-loop; External control added
Lab 17. A/D; Phase-Locked Loop: Two Digital Feedback Machines:
D/A; A/D: Slow motion; Full speed; Displaying search tree;
Speed limit; Latching output; Phase-Locked Loop:
frequency multiplier.
Lab 18. Micro 1: Adding CPU
Clock; CPU preliminary test; Fixing busgrant*;
Memory enable logic; Memory write logic; Single-step;
Test program; Full-speed: timing diagram
Lab 19. Micro 2: I/O: Output: First small programs
Battery backup; Power-fail detector; I/O decoder;
Data displays; Timing program
Lab 20. Micro 3: Input; More small programs
Delay as subroutine; Improved delay routines; Input hardware:
Data input hardware; Input/output program; Ready signal;
I/O program with enter/ready function; Decimal arithmetic
Lab 21. Micro 3: A/D <--> D/A
A/D-D/A wiring details; Programs: confirming that D/A, A/D work;
In & Out; Invert, rectify, low-pass;
Lab 22. Micro 4: `Storage scope;' Interrupts & other `Exceptions'
`Storage scope;' keyboard control;
Exceptions: A software exception: illegal; Interrupt:
hardware to request interrupt; Program: main & service routine;
NMI; Applying interrupts
[Register-Check A debugging aid (optional program; install if you choose to)
Lab 23. Applying Your Microcomputer (`Toy Catalog')
X-Y scope displays; Light-pen; Voice output; Driving a stepper motor;
Games; Sound sampling/generation