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Senior Class


The senior class is assigned the greatest amount of lab work and is given a minimum amount of assistance. This is to create independence in laboratory completion. The assigned lab book is titled Digital Techniques. It consists of twenty-six laboratory assignments and eleven unit examinations. The senior labs are as follows:


1. Bipolar Transistor Switch			
2. Logic Inverter					
3. Diode Logic Gates				
4. Transistor Logic Gate				
5. TTL Logic Gates				
6. CMOS Logic Gates				
7. Applying NAND and Nor Gates		
8. The Wired AND Connection			
9. Set-Reset Flip Flops				
10. D Flip Flops					
11. JK Flip Flops					
12. Binary Counter				
13. The BCD Counter				
14. Counter Applications				
15. Shift Registers					
16. Shift Register Applications			
17. Clocks and One Shots				
18. Decoders					
19. 7 Segment Decoder-Driver Display		
20. Multiplexers					
21. Exclusive OR/NOR				
22. Exclusive OR/NOR Applications		
23. Semiconductor Memories			
24. Digital-to-Analog Conversion		
25. Analog-to-Digital Conversion		
26. Practical Digital Troubleshooting		
(Heathkit Company, Inc. 2001 Digital Techniques, Workbook 3)

Exp one demonstrates the operation and design of a saturated bipolar transistor switch (11). Exp two through eight all describe how to create logic gates in different manners. Exp nine, ten, and eleven show the ways to create flip-flops. Flip-flops are used in memory. Exp twelve through fourteen teach students how to create binary counters and encoders. Exp fifteen and sixteen give an understanding of shift registers and their applications. Exp seventeen teaches the ways and means of clocks and one shots. These are use in Stable and Astable multivibrators. Exp eighteen and nineteen have a slight relation. Eighteen decodes binary signals and nineteen display the decoded signals. Exp twenty demonstrates the operation and application of digital multiplexers (151). Exp twenty-one and twenty-two burrow into the abyss of Exclusive OR/NOR gates. These are also used for memory applications. Exp twenty-three explains how to make a static semiconductor memory IC (183). Exp twenty-four and twenty-five are used to show the ways of converting digital to analog and vise-versa. This would be used for Modems.  The final exp, twenty-six, finishes off the year with an understanding of practical digital troubleshooting (213). Of course, the unit examinations can be administered at any time during the year.