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  • Vehicle Security Systems

    Build Your Own Alarm and Protection Systems
    • 1st Edition
    • A L Brown
    • English
    A concise and thoroughly practical guide to building and installing car alarms. The project-based approach makes this book ideal for students and hobbyists; design and installation engineers will also find it of interest.Every circuit in this book is clearly described and illustrated, and contains components that are easy to source. Advice and guidance are based on real experience, and the designs themselves have been rigorously put to use on some of the most car-crime-ridden streets in the world. The designs in this book include systems as simple as a warning beacon, a range of immobilisers, and a basic alarm system; and more advanced systems that include add-on features such as a personal attack button and a courtesy light delay. Intruder detectors are described, and full constructional details are given including a guide to fault diagnosis and step-by-step installation instructions.
  • Modern CMOS Circuits Manual

    • 1st Edition
    • R M MARSTON
    • English
    This Circuits Manual examines operating principles and practical applications of modern medium-speed and 'fast' CMOS digital ICs. 470 carefully selected circuits, diagrams, graphs and tables are supported by the informative 'how to' text and by detailed descriptions of more than 120 modern CMOS ICs and their practical applications. Although ideal for practical design engineers and technicians, this book will doubtless also be of great interest to hobbyists and students of electronics.Using clear and comprehensive language, each chapter begins with an explanation of the basic principles of the subject followed by the presentation of circuits and useful data. The first chapter describes and explains digital IC basics, CMOS and TTL principles, the various CMOS sub-families and CMOS basic-usage rules. Chapter 2 gives a practical introduction to CMOS basics via the 4007UB IC, which can be used in both digital and linear applications. Chapter 3 deals with modern logic circuitry, and Chapter 4 with CMOS bilateral switches and data selectors. The next six chapters progress through waveform generator circuitry, clocked flip-flop and counter circuits, ICs, special counter/dividers, data latches, registers, comparators, and code converters. Chapter 11 focuses on specialised types of IC such as multiplexers and decoders while the final chapter presents a miscellaneous collection of useful CMOC circuits.
  • Simplified Design of Micropower and Battery Circuits

    • 1st Edition
    • John Lenk
    • English
    Simplified Design of Micropower and Battery Circuits provides a simplified, step-by-step approach to micropower and supply cell circuit design. No previous experience in design is required to use the techniques described, thus making the book well suited for the beginner, student, or experimenter as well as the design professional. Simplified Design of Micropower and Battery Circuits concentrates on the use of commercial micropower ICs by discussing selections of external components that modify the IC-package characteristics. The basic approach is to start design problems with approximations for trial-value components in experimental circuits, then to vary the component values until the desired results are produced. Although theory and mathematics are kept to a minimum, operation of all circuits is described in full. EDITOR'S CHOICE - Electronics (The Maplin Magazine), May 1996 John D. Lenk has been a technical author specializing in practical electronic design and troubleshooting guides for more than 40 years. An established writer of international best-sellers in the field of electronics, Mr. Lenk is the author of more than 80 books on electronics, which together have sold well over two million copies in nine languages.
  • Toshiba Medium PLC Primer

    • 1st Edition
    • Edwin Dropka
    • English
    This Primer provides an introduction to programming with the EX-PDD250 software common to Toshiba Medium PLCs. If you are just starting to use Toshiba Medium PLCs, or are planning to switch to using them, this book will allow you to get acquainted with the specifics of the software quickly in a straightforward, step-by-step way. It can also be used as a general introduction to RLL and PLC programming.To supplement the text, the Toshiba demonstration disk included allows you to become familiar with basic techniques before you have to work on the real thing. The circuits in the book can be copied directly to your program, and modified to suit your needs.
  • Mechatronics Volume 2

    Concepts in Artifical Intelligence
    • 1st Edition
    • Jeffrey Johnson + 1 more
    • English
    Mechatronics is the fusion of mechanics and electronics in the design of intelligent machines. This textbook is concerned with the concepts and techniques of artificial intelligence needed for the design of machines with advanced intelligent behaviour. It explores the topics of pattern recognition, neural networks, scheduling, reasoning, fuzzy logic, rule-based systems, machine learning, control and computer vision.This student guide shows how fifty years of research into artificial intelligence (AI) have borne fruit in the design of better and more intelligent machines. The twin objectives of the text are: to explain the theory of the mainstream ideas of AI and to show how these ideas can be applied in practical engineering situations.
  • Newnes Power PC Programming Pocket Book

    • 1st Edition
    • Steve Heath
    • English
    Written by one of the foremost experts, Steve Heath, the processor technology specialist at Motorola (UK).* 200 pages packed with information for programmers * will complement the author's other Butterworth-Heineman... book ... The Power PC: a practical companion (which is aimed at users). * in the pocket book ... a simple overview of the processor and programming models * straightforward definitions (eg what bit 14 of the MSR does and not why it has to do it) * simple definitions of each instruction with two instructions per page
  • Principles of Semiconductor Network Testing

    • 1st Edition
    • Amir Afshar
    • English
    Principles of Semiconductor Network Testing gathers together comprehensive information which test and process professionals will find invaluable. The techniques outlined will help ensure that test methods and data collected reflect actual device performance, rather than 'testing the tester' or being lost in the noise floor. This book addresses the fundamental issues underlying the semiconductor test discipline. The test engineer must understand the basic principles of semiconductor fabrication and process and have an in-depth knowledge of circuit functions, instrumentation and noise sources.
  • The Integrated Circuit Hobbyist's Handbook

    • 1st Edition
    • Thomas R. Powers
    • English
    Here are just a few of the applications you'll find:a terrific selection of amplifiers, including high-performance audio types and summing and difference amplifiers used in analog computation filters, including low pass, high pass, bandpass, and clippers bus transceivers and bus buffers for interfacing digital circuits audio compressors and expanders for speech processing counters ranging from a simple "divide by 2" circuit to advanced divide by 120 and automatic recycling versions magnitude and equality comparators for digital "words" FSK modulators and decoders a wide selection of oscillators, include sine, square, and sawtooth waveform output designs voltage regulator and voltage level detectors and a collection of fun applications like LED flashers, fluid level detectors, and even an ultrasonic ranging system
  • PC-based Instrumentation and Control

    • 2nd Edition
    • Mike Tooley
    • English
    In this established text Mike Tooley explains how to design and implement control systems using easily sourced components and tried and tested circuits. Representative software routines in a variety of languages (including 8086 assembler, BASIC and C) are included.
  • Music Projects

    • 1st Edition
    • R A Penfold
    • English
    Music Projects contains a collection of projects based on music applications. Components are widely available and the circuits form the basis for further experiments. Circuit diagrams are provided, as are photographs of the main circuits. Parts lists are also given.Robert Penfold's reputation for innovative circuit designs and well-thought out projects is firmly established. His work has been featured regularly in the popular 'Bob's Mini Circuits' section of Electronics, the Maplin magazine. This is a collection of his best ideas from the magazine. Projects include an accented metronome, a tremolo unit, a guitar compressor, a bass fuzz, and a chorus unit.