Circuits & Electronics
In a series circuit, this quantity is the same through every component.
What is current?
What decimal number is represented by the binary number 110101?
What is 53?
This handheld instrument can measure voltage, current, and resistance.
What is a multimeter?
This inventor is widely associated with the practical incandescent light bulb and held over 1,000 U.S. patents.
Who is Thomas Edison?
This device converts electrical energy into mechanical rotation and is found in everything from fans to robots.
What is an electric motor?
This component stores electrical energy in an electric field and is measured in farads.
What is a capacitor?
This logic gate outputs a 1 when its two inputs are different from each other.
What is an XOR gate?
This piece of lab equipment lets you view how an electrical signal changes over time.
What is an oscilloscope?
IEEE divides its worldwide membership geographically into this many Regions.
What is 10 Regions?
This material is the most widely used semiconductor in modern electronics.
What is silicon?
This electrical component stores energy in a magnetic field and is commonly shaped like a coil.
What is an inductor?
This digital circuit stores one bit of information and commonly changes state in response to a clock signal.
What is a flip-flop?
Engineers commonly use this software, whose name comes from “Matrix Laboratory,” for calculations, simulations, and data analysis.
What is MATLAB?
The transistor was invented in 1947 at this famous research laboratory.
What is Bell Labs?
This phenomenon causes light to change direction when it passes from one material into another.
What is refraction?
This semiconductor device is commonly used as an electronic switch or amplifier.
What is a transistor?
This digital circuit keeps track of the number of incoming clock pulses and can represent the result in binary.
What is a counter?
This software tool is widely used by engineers to design and simulate programmable logic for FPGAs made by AMD/Xilinx.
What is Vivado?
This physicist developed a set of equations that unified electricity, magnetism, and light into a single theory of electromagnetism.
Who is James Clerk Maxwell?
This manufacturing process uses light to transfer extremely small circuit patterns onto a semiconductor wafer.
What is photolithography?
This type of transistor dominates modern digital integrated circuits and is controlled primarily by an electric field.
What is a MOSFET?
This type of digital system has a set of defined states and changes between them depending on its current state and input conditions.
What is a finite state machine (FSM)?
This open-source software is commonly used to view, edit, and inspect integrated-circuit layouts and GDSII files used in semiconductor and microfabrication design.
What is KLayout?
This company introduced the first commercially available microprocessor, the 4004, in 1971.
What is Intel?
This effect causes the observed frequency of a wave to change when the source and observer are moving relative to each other.
What is the Doppler effect?