VIN Lab experiments
98 electronics and computer-network experiments. Each one opens in the free simulator in your browser, with the objective, procedure and theory next to the circuit.
Basic Electrical Lab (13)
- Ohm's law
- Equivalent resistance (series + parallel)
- Lamp circuits in series and in parallel
- Kirchhoff's current law
- Kirchhoff's voltage law
- Superposition theorem
- Thevenin's theorem
- Norton's theorem
- Maximum power transfer
- Wheatstone bridge
- RL circuit time constant
- AC power and power factor
- Power-factor correction
Electronic Devices Lab (11)
- Half-wave rectifier
- Full-wave bridge rectifier with capacitor filter (ripple factor)
- Diode clipper
- Diode clamper (DC restorer)
- Diode AND / OR gates
- Zener shunt regulator: line and load regulation
- Transistor biasing: fixed bias vs voltage-divider bias
- BJT as a switch
- SCR (thyristor) latching
- LDR response to light
- Photodiode under illumination
Analog Circuits Lab (14)
- Inverting amplifier (op-amp)
- Non-inverting amplifier (op-amp)
- Summing amplifier
- Subtractor (difference amplifier)
- Instrumentation amplifier (three op-amps)
- Op-amp integrator
- Op-amp differentiator
- Zero-crossing detector
- Schmitt trigger (hysteresis)
- Common-emitter amplifier
- Emitter follower (common collector)
- Class-B push-pull output stage (crossover distortion)
- 555 monostable (one-shot)
- R-2R ladder DAC (4-bit)
Digital Systems Lab (19)
- Truth tables of the basic gates
- NAND as a universal gate
- NOR as a universal gate
- 4-bit even-parity generator
- Binary to Gray code converter
- 2-bit magnitude comparator
- Half adder (gates)
- Full adder
- 4-bit ripple-carry adder
- 4:1 multiplexer from 2:1 multiplexers
- 2-to-4 line decoder
- D flip-flop
- JK flip-flop (hold, set, reset, toggle)
- 4-bit binary counter
- Mod-6 counter (asynchronous reset)
- Serial-in parallel-out shift register
- Ring counter
- Johnson (twisted-ring) counter
- Serial sequence detector (1011)
Microcontroller Lab (4)
Logic Gates from Components (18)
- OR gate from diodes
- AND gate from diodes
- NOT gate (inverter) from an NPN transistor
- NOR gate (RTL: resistor-transistor logic)
- NAND gate (transistors in series)
- NAND gate (DTL: diode-transistor logic)
- NAND gate (TTL with totem-pole output)
- NOT gate from an N-MOSFET with resistor load
- NOT gate (CMOS inverter)
- NAND gate (CMOS)
- NOR gate (CMOS)
- AND gate (CMOS: NAND + inverter)
- OR gate (CMOS: NOR + inverter)
- XOR gate (four CMOS NAND gates)
- Half adder from CMOS NAND gates
- Full adder from nine CMOS NAND gates
- SR latch (bistable multivibrator from two transistors)
- Astable multivibrator (two-transistor oscillator, LED flasher)
Local networks (4)
Routing and security (3)
Traffic and performance (1)
Computer Networks Lab (11)
- ARP packet inspection
- IP subnetting (two /26 subnets)
- Static routing across three routers
- Traceroute: discovering the path with TTL
- TTL expiry and ICMP time-exceeded
- RTT and packet loss on a lossy link
- Packet size versus latency
- Queueing delay and loss on an overloaded link
- TCP congestion control (slow start and loss recovery)
- File transfer over TCP: LAN versus WAN
- VLANs across a trunk link