Is it possible for someone to emulate a computer they’ve built? I need space for a workshop, but I want to get started with writing more assembly. Is it worth it to just wait until I get supplies? or is it possible to build the computer on… the computer? Maybe you missed the previous post about ...

Here's a very old one I have that's open. Thanks for the picture. Assuming they're all much the same, the internal bypass capacitor should make the effect I showed in the above screenshots almost invisible/impossible . So, perhaps unsurprisingly, it turns out my measurement was flawed ...

Your clock oscillator can undoubtedly has a power supply bypass capacitor in it. I guess I don't understand then, because if there's a capacitor already across the power pins of the oscillator I wouldn't expect to be able to see the voltage oscillate on every clock edge - what are the internals ...

I know this is somewhat off-topic; but we're on the 7th page of this one, so small interesting side notes should be fine as long as the OP is ok with it. Off topic is where I shine ;-)

However that leads to a question: should I be making new threads for each topic in the hope that the threads will ...

Let's see if I've managed to learn anything by trying to understand ground bounce / Vcc droop on a trivial clock circuit. The oscillator I have is a MXO45HS (datasheet attached). The test circuit shown in the datasheet is:
Screenshot 2024-08-18 at 4.04.32 PM.png As ever, my understanding is weak ...

(I continue to think that you are digging a bit too deep for your own good - if you were doing mechanical engineering, or civil engineering, and you expressed concern about, say, the gravitational influence of Mercury or Mars, I'd be similarly concerned. Physics will tell us that everything ...

Hmm, if you said electric field I'd be with you. There's no current in one branch - what's stabilising is the voltage. I definitely agree electric field would be clearer because the electric field survives the transient state.

But I believe that when the voltage is first applied, an electric and ...

I see there's another video which helps visualise voltages and currents, which I posted at
Semi-OT: "watch electricity hit a fork in the road" I'd add my vote to this video, I had seen it before and for me it helped solidify my notion that the right model here is the setup time of the magnetic ...

I'm only halfway through reading Vol II, as I know next to nothing about AC circuits
Once you know what an inductor does and what a capacitor does, AC analysis is initially a lot like DC analysis, except with complex numbers. Complex just means they go on a graph instead of a number line. For me ...

I'm only halfway through reading Vol II, as I know next to nothing about AC circuits so it's taking much more time to absorb. But the typesetting seems to have benefitted from the experience with Vol I, so I'll post it now.

If anyone bothers to read it and find errors in my formatting let me know
I just gave it a quick scroll, and found that things don't line up correctly in the tables, for example on pages 591-592, and 595-596. A search for ------- will turn them up, since a line of hyphens is used to separate rows ...

Hmm. I replied to this thread yesterday morning, but the toobz seem to have eaten it! Anyway, here (again) is a direct link to the All About Circuits online textbook: https://www.allaboutcircuits.com/textbook/

And here is a link to an article that seems pertinent to this thread: https://www ...

Ideally the ground network and Vcc network would not have any voltage between them. The reality is not the ideal though. I've been struggling with this sentence for a while and eventually decided you must mean "Ideally the ground network and Vcc network would not have any voltage within them.". It ...

Ground Bounce levels are typically more pronounced than Vcc Bounce levels because of the HIGH to LOW transition is trying to quickly bring a HIGH signal down to a narrow window of <400mV for a logic LOW. A low output impedance is required to complete the transition quickly. In the LOW to HIGH, the ...

Hmm. I replied to this thread yesterday morning, but the toobz seem to have eaten it! Anyway, here (again) is a direct link to the All About Circuits online textbook: https://www.allaboutcircuits.com/textbook/

And here is a link to an article that seems pertinent to this thread: https://www ...