Digital Circuit Design: Laboratory Notebook pdf

This laboratory notebook is intended for use in an Digital Circuit Design course and is appropriate for two- and four-year electrical engineering curriculums. The manual contains sufficient exercises for a typical 15-week course using a two-to-three-hour practicum period. The topics range from basic laboratory procedures series-parallel circuits, mesh and nodal analysis, principles of linearity and superposition, Thevenin and Norton equivalence, op amps, amplifiers, first and second order circuits as well as sinusoids and phasors. For equipment, each lab station should include a dual adjustable DC power supply, a quality DMM capable of reading AC/DC voltage, current and resistance and a basic dual channel oscilloscope. A selection of standard value ¼ watt carbon film resistor ranging from a few ohms to a few mega ohms is required along with a selection of capacitors and inductors, and a number of discrete logic gates.

Each exercise begins with an Objective and a Theory Overview. The Equipment List follows with space provided for serial numbers and measured values of components. Schematics are presented next along with the step-by-step procedure. All data tables are grouped together, typically with columns for the theoretical and experimental results, along with a column for the percent deviations between them. Finally, a group of appropriate questions are presented. For those with longer scheduled lab times, a useful addition is to simulate the circuit(s) with a SPICE-based tool such as LTSpice, or similar software, and compare those results to the theoretical and experimental results as well.