Control systems are all around us, and understanding them is going to make you much better at hardware design. In the last article — Beyond Control: The Basics of Control Systems — we looked at an ...

Connect the RLC circuit to the function generator using an adapter and banana cables. Connect the oscilloscope to two elements in the circuit. Be careful to ground the measurements at the same point.

In many systems, transmission lines drive reactive (mostly capacitive) loads. To preserve signal integrity, you should properly terminate the lines. However, the input impedance of CMOS logic ICs, for ...