Electronics Flashcards
How do we deal with noisy signal in electronics
We want a shmitt trigger so that when we get a signal we immediately move to another state that’s beyond it so we don’t get a spiky signal just pure positive
What are sources of noise
Chemical - temperature, pressure, humidity, light intensity
Instrumental - associated with physical and electronic (eg thermal johnson, flicker, shot etc
What is thermal johnson noise
caused by random thermal motion nof charge carriers in electrical circuit
Shot Noise what is
quantum noise - the idea that charge and energy quantized -average for constant each individual have their own fluctiation
Flicker noise
1/f or pink noise because of its 1/f dependence
usually major noise at lower frequencies
origins unknown - generally most things show flicker noise, diodes, transistors, resistors etc
ENvironemtnal noise
things all around us have noise of varying frequency more of course at lower end
Where is the est and worst noise
worst at DC - low frequency (no) and best at white noise region
How can we increase S/N generally (2 methods)
hardware and software
hardware is grounding and shielding, can remove with electrical filters,
Software - ensemble averaging, digital smoothing etc
What is Lock in amplifier
use lock in and phase sensitivie detection to detect signal at specific reference frequency and phase -
GO THROUGH MATH OF LOCK IN (do on own) lecture 16 slide 7 or os
How to calculate any number system based on base
MSB*Base^m, + next bit Bm-1)
note MSB is most significatn bit - go until least significant bit
note m goes all the way down to 0 so the LSB least significant bit is the bit * B^0
Rules of converting from binary to dec and dec to binary
binary to dec - use the 2^ rule
Decimal to binary -
Continuously divide by 2 and the remainders are the digits of your binary numbers.
It goes from LSB to MSB (so the very last number you generate is your MSB (1 and thats when you have 1 divided by 2 (0 R1?)
What is a bit vs a byte vs kB etc (and a word)
1 binary digit is a bit, 8 are a byte, and 2^10 is a kilobyte so 1024 Bytes
Megabyte is 2^10 kB or 2^20 bytes so 1048576 B
a single number represented by a group of bits is a word (no fixed size)
What is binary coded decimal?
you represent each digit of a decimal number with 4 bits of binary
What is ASCII
American Standard Code for Info exchange
alpha numberic code uses 7 bit word to code number letter or command
How to derive boolean expression from truth table
Sum of Product or Product of Sums
Sum of Products - look at high states - for inputs multiply them (0 is not, 1 is as is) and sum the terms
For Products of Sums - look at your low states 0
for low states sum the inputs (0 is as is 1 is not) and that makes a term
multiply these terms
Go over basic theorems of logic
What does A +A =
A
What does A*A =
A
What is A+A’
1
what is A*A’
0
What does A+B*C =
(A+B)(A+C)
A*B’+B=
A+B
A+A*B
A