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Which board is best for teaching 2nd year Circuits course?


MRaj

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Hello, this is my first post.  Starting 06 April I will be teaching an Intro To Circuits course, your basic 2nd year circuits course.  I am planning to use Digilent in that class.  Which board is the best one to use for that purpose?  Explorer seems like the way to go, at least on paper, but I just wanted to get a second opinion.  I also wanted to know if any ancillary materials are needed when purchasing a board, like a parts kit or extra components.

 

Thanks,

 

Mohan

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Alex, thank you for your response.  Discovery looks like it will be sufficient for our class, and it has student pricing too which is great.  I was really balking at the idea of asking my students to pay $329 for something, unless it is the only option.

 

I am teaching at Cascadia College in Bothell, Wa.  It is your standard circuits class for ECE majors:  Ohm's law, Kirchhoff's laws, network analysis, Thevenin and Norton equivalents, RC, RL, RLC circuits, Laplace transforms, frequency response, phasors, sinusoidal steady state, AC power.  I like to go a little into diodes and BJTs if possible, but there is not always time for that.

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Oh, great!  I knew about the Real Analog and was planning to make good use of it next quarter, but I didn't know about the microelectronics lab manual.  Thank you so much for your advice.  I hope to become a regular poster on here as well; maybe one day I will be able to help out a newbie, as you have done for me.

 

Mohan

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Hi Mraj, thanks. We want to build up a community to help each other so that more people know engineering is fun, not hard and related to everyday life. Then, more and more people learn engineering.

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