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Creating a Frequency Divider

What’s in this Podcast?
This video podcast is the last in the series of podcasts focusing on Digital Counting. The content follows Northern Ireland’s CCEA specification for A2 Unit 1 section 3.7 Technology and Design.

Binary Coded Decimal
Decimal Down Counters

Useful links

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary-coded_decimal

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Creating a Decimal Counter - Part 2

What’s in this Podcast?
This video podcast continues the series of podcasts focusing on Digital Counting. The content follows Northern Ireland’s CCEA specification for A2 Unit 1 section 3.7 Technology and Design.

Keywords and Phrases:

Binary Coded Decimal
Decimal Down Counters

Useful links

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary-coded_decimal

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Creating a Decimal Counter - Part 1

What’s in this Podcast?
This video podcast continues the series of podcasts focusing on Digital Counting. The content follows Northern Ireland’s CCEA specification for A2 Unit 1 section 3.7 Technology and Design.

Keywords and Phrases:

Binary Coded Decimal
Decimal Counters
Reset on 9

Useful links

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary-coded_decimal

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Creating a Binary Counter - Part 2

What’s in this Podcast?
This video podcast continues the series of podcasts focusing on Digital Counting. The content follows Northern Ireland’s CCEA specification for A2 Unit 1 section 3.7 Technology and Design.

Keywords and Phrases:

JK Flip Flops
Master Slave JK Flip Flops
T-Type Flop Flop
Binary Counter

Useful links

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flip-flop_(electronics)

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Creating a Binary Counter - Part 1

What’s in this Podcast?
This video podcast begins a series of podcasts focusing on Digital Counting. The content follows Northern Ireland’s CCEA specification for A2 Unit 1 section 3.7 Technology and Design.

Keywords and Phrases:

SR Flip Flops
Clocked SR Flip Flops
Rising Edge
Keep State
D-Type Flip Flop

Useful links

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flip-flop_(electronics)

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Digital Counting - Bases

What’s in this Podcast?
This video podcast begins a series of podcasts focusing on Digital Counting. The content follows Northern Ireland’s CCEA specification for A2 Unit 1 section 3.7 Technology and Design.

Keywords and Phrases:

Decimal Counting
Bases
Base 6
Binary
Hexadecimal
Binary to Hexadecimal conversion

Useful links

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base_%28mathematics%29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexadecimal

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Feedback Amplifiers

What’s in this Podcast?
This video podcast looks at the Operational Amplifiers using feedback. The content follows Northern Ireland’s CCEA specification for A2 Unit 1 section 3.7 Technology and Design.
Keywords and Phrases:

Inverting Amplifier
Non-Inverting Amplifier
Difference Amplifier

Useful links

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_feedback
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Op_amp

Feedback Amplifiers from Podcastschool on Vimeo.

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The Comparator

What’s in this Podcast?
This video podcast looks at the Operational Amplifier used as a comparator. The content follows Northern Ireland’s CCEA specification for A2 Unit 1 section 3.7 Technology and Design.
Keywords and Phrases:

The Comparator
Reference Voltage

Useful links

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparator
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Op_amp

The Comparator from Podcastschool on Vimeo.

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The Operational Amplifier

What’s in this Podcast?
This video podcast looks at the Operational Amplifier. The content follows Northern Ireland’s CCEA specification for A2 Unit 1 section 3.7 Technology and Design.
Keywords and Phrases:

Amplification
Inverting Input
Non Inverting Input
Negative Feedback
Open Loop Gain

Useful links

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated_circuit
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Op_amp
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_feedback

The Operational Amplifier from Podcastschool on Vimeo.

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Karnaugh Maps - Problems

What’s in this Podcast?
This video podcast works through two worked examples of Logic Simplification using 3 Variable Karnaugh Maps. The content follows Northern Ireland’s CCEA specification for A2 Unit 1 section 3.7 Technology and Design.
Keywords and Phrases:

Logic Simplification examples
3 Variable Karnaugh Maps

Karnaugh Maps - Problems from Podcastschool on Vimeo.

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