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updated 2005-10-17

• Micro Processors / Micro Controllers

  • PinOuts
  • Timing and Interfaces
  • Specifications
  • Instruction Sets
  • Historys
  • device programmers
  • processor clock crystals (crystal oscillators)

• Emulation

• Tools development tools

  , such as

  • Test Equipment
  • analog oscilloscopes
  • digital oscilloscopes

• Memory

  • CMOS Battery backup RAM
  • RAM for each (chip type)
  • ROM
  • Controllers
  • Disk Drives (for each MFGR and type)

• Input/Output

  • Ports
  • Peripherals
    • displays
    • motors
  • Interfacing
  • Busses and Communication Standards
  • Video output: SERVID: SX Microcontroller Serial Video Display

• Logic 

  • ASICs Application Specific Integrated Circuits
  • GAL Gate Array Logic
  • PLDs Programmable Logic Devices
  • ISP PLDs In System Programmable Programmable Logic Devices
  • FPGA:
    • XILINX Spartan XCS10 ;
    • microcontroller + FPLD designs using the XS40 and XS95 Boards
  • digital logic family information

• Power

  • automotive battery power
  • hand held battery power
  • Solar power
  • DC to DC switching regulators
  • linear regulators (DC down to lower DC)
  • power isolation
  • Decoupleing (don't miss this)
  • power measurement
  • ... etc.

• Construction

  • Breadboard,
  • Prototype,
  • low volume production,
  • high volume production
  • Components
• contests involving building some hardware

Books:

• `The Art of Electronics' (Horowitz & Hill, Cambridge University Press) THE Book. If you don't have this, you're playing. Ask the pros about this book.

For general electronic design (general circuit design), see Construction

• schematic: paper design
  • analog
  • digital
  • RF: radio frequency design
  • ohms law
• construction: PWB layout: analog, digital, RF, Breadboard construction: (includes wire wrap and "white protoboards")
• other: case/front panel design, ...

bibliography for schematic editor:

If you're using the schematic editor, you're probably designing circuits. The classic reference is commonly known at "Horowitz and Hill" or "AoE":

_The Art of Electronics_ (2nd edition) by Paul Horowitz and Winfield Hill. http://www.artofelectronics.com/ (Not to be confused with the "other" AoE, http://www.ensemblestudios.com/aoe/ )

Other, more specialized books:

• "Designing with op amps: Single-formula technique keeps it simple" article by Dieter Knollman, PhD, Lucent Technologies http://www.reed-electronics.com/ednmag/archives/1998/030298/05df_05.htm and http://www.reed-electronics.com/ednmag/archives/1998/030298/05df_05.pdf covers "Plato’s gain formula" and "Daisy’s theorem" . /* was http://www.ednmag.com/ednmag/reg/1998/030298/05df_05.htm */
• http://www.protel.com/earticles/index.html
• http://www.protel.com/etech/prod_doc.htm ``You can download the complete handbook from this page, it contains more information than the 'standard' Protel99 manual.'' -- Aalt Lokhorst on 2001-04-03 05:09:13 AM
• _Op-Amp Cookbook_ by Don Lancaster http://www.tinaja.com/
• _The ARRL Handbook_ http://www.arrl.org/
• Maxfield, Clive. _Bebop to the Boolean Boogie: An Unconventional Guide to Electronics Fundamentals, Components, and Processes_

[Any other must-have, highly recommended books ?]

radio frequency design

RF design

• http://www.circuitsage.com/ At Circuit Sage, our goal is to completely automate the design of integrated transceiver circuits. (circuits that interface between a digital CPU on one side and a radio antenna on the other side).
• radio frequency IO io/rfs.htm lots of books on RF circuit design

unsorted

See also:

• http://www.rfcafe.com/references/electrical.htm
• http://commlinx.com.au/schematics.htm Links to schematics for many different types of circuits from all over the web.
• http://www.audioscientific.com/Circuits%20-%20Schematics%20&%20Tutorials_100.htm
• General / Links
  • Sci.Electronics.Repair (S.E.R) FAQ - V2.9993 (4/10/99) Main Table of Contents (ToC)
  • Tomi Engdahl's electronics info page
  • Tom Loredo's Electronic Resources
  • http://www.bc1.com/users/sgl/html/jo4.htm
  • http://www.coe.montana.edu/ee/cady/misclink.htm
  • Projects
  • http://www.world-net.net/~muldowne/schems.html
  • http://www.pacific.net/~brooke/electron.html
  • http://www.us-epanorama.net/
• Cookbooks / Sample circuit collections
  • Victorian University Electronics Intranet
  • Hobby-Electronics - Circuit Collection
  • JWA Systems - Electronic Circuits
  • 4QD - interesting circuits
  • Richard Steven Walz's - ftp site
  • Circuit Lab
  • University of Alberta Canada Circuit Cookbook Archives
  • University of Washington
    • Consumer Electronics Design Education Project Library of Instructional Material
    • Circuits Archive
  • Bowdens Hobby Circuits
  • Boondog Automation
  • http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/shb7/neatcir.html
  • http://www.hardwarebook.net/circuit/index.html
• Tutorials / Education
  • http://www.phys.ualberta.ca/~gingrich/phys395/notes/phys395.html Physics of Electronics online course notes. (cached 20010924151820 HTML, PDF)
  • http://www.phys.uts.edu.au/~tfc/tfcteach/ecindex.htm The Electronics Companion CD/Web Version
  • The Art of Electronics by Paul Horowitz available from Amazon.com
  • http://randyfromm.com/amusements/techdept/randy_fromms_arcade_school/ Repair of Arcade devices (lots of crossover to computers)
• Magazines
  • Nuts and Volts use More.. then FTP Library to get the juicey inner part...
  • Circias Circuit Celler
  • EDTN Design Center articles from EE Times, Circuit Cellar, EDN
  • Byte Magazine
• Scott Edwards
• Favorites - Hardware
• alt.comp.hardware faq
• Covers/front panels:
• http://www.xfig.org/ - schematic viewing.

See also:

• Chris Leonard of GlobalSpec, Inc. refers to http://www.globalspec.com/

Design and PCB Layout Considerations for Dynamic Memories interfaced to the Z80 CPU by Tim Olmstead 10-01-96 mem/dram/olmstead.html

good general purpose usefull projects for beginners with lasting value for the experts piclist/projects.htm (crosslink to general circuit design)

See:

• /techref/microchip/autobaud-ol.htm
• /techref/microchip/portpins.htm
• /techref/microchip/picstartplus.htm
• /techref/microchip/links.htm
• /techref/microchip/ppord.htm
• /techref/microchip/intsample.htm
• /techref/microchip/icdprtord.htm
• /techref/microchip/sersamp.htm
• /techref/microchip/pulsecount-sd.htm
• /techref/microchip/routines.htm
• /techref/microchip/alternatives.htm
• /techref/microchip/seepicsrc/psbpix/read.htm
• /techref/microchip/seepicsrc/
• /techref/microchip/ide.htm
• /techref/microchip/idecdrom.htm
• /techref/piclist/codegen/ code generator for the PIC by Nikolai Golovchenko
• /techref/microchip/pwr-picmotor.htm
• /techref/microchip/power.htm
• /techref/microchip/routines.htm
• /techref/microchip/a2d.htm
• /techref/microchip/avga2d.htm
• /techref/microchip/pwr-picmotor.htm

building a custom test fixture ?

parts split off from Protel FAQ

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