Outline of electronics

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to electronics:

Electronics – branch of physics, engineering and technology dealing with electrical circuits that involve active semiconductor components and associated passive interconnection technologies.

Branches

Classical electronics

• Analog electronics
• Digital electronics
• Electronic instrumentation
• Electronic engineering
• Microelectronics
• Optoelectronics
• Power electronics
• Printed electronics
• Semiconductor technology
• Schematic capture
• Thermal management
• Automation Electronics

Advanced topics

• Atomtronics
• Bioelectronics
• Failure modes of electronics
• Flexible electronics
• Low-power electronics
• Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS)
• Molecular electronics
• Nanoelectronics
• Organic electronics
• Photonics
• Piezotronics
• Quantum electronics
• Spintronics

History of electronics

• History of electronic engineering
• History of radar
• History of radio
• History of television

General concepts

Data converters

• Analog-to-digital converters (ADC)
  • Aliasing
  • Successive approximation ADC
  • Dual-slope ADC
  • Quantization
  • Sensor resolution
  • Sampling
  • Delta-sigma ADC
• Digital-to-analog converters (DAC)
  • Digital potentiometer
  • Binary weighted resistor converter
  • Charge distribution DAC
  • Pulse width modulator
  • Reconstruction filter
  • The R2R ladder

Digital electronics

• Binary decision diagrams
• Boolean algebra
• Combinational logic
• Counters (digital)
• De Morgan's laws
• Digital circuit
• Formal verification
• Karnaugh maps
• Logic families
• Logic gate
• Logic minimization
• Logic simulation
• Logic synthesis
• Registers
• Sequential logic
• State machines
• Truth tables
• Transparent latch

Electrical element/discretes

• Passive elements:
  • Capacitor
  • Inductor
  • Memristor
  • Resistor
  • Transformer
• Active elements:
  • Diode
    • Zener diode
    • Light-emitting diode
    • PIN diode
    • Schottky diode
    • Avalanche diode
    • Laser diode
    • Microcontroller
    • Operational amplifier
  • Thyristor
    • DIAC
    • TRIAC
    • IGBT
  • Transistor
    • Bipolar transistor (BJT)
    • Field effect transistor (FET)
    • Darlington transistor
• Other components
  • Aural devices
  • Battery (electricity)
  • Crystal oscillator
  • Electromechanical devices
  • Sensors
  • Surface acoustic wave (SAW)

Electronics analysis

• Electronic packaging
• Electronic circuit simulation
• Electronic design automation
• Electronic noise
• Mathematical methods in electronics
• Thermal management of electronic devices and systems

Electronic circuits

• Amplifiers
  • Differential amplifiers
  • Feedback amplifiers
  • Power amplifiers
• Comparators
• Converters
• Filters
  • Active filters
  • Passive filters
  • Digital filters
• Oscillators
• Phase-locked loops
• Timers

Electronic equipment

• Air conditioner
• Central heating
• Clothes dryer
• Computer/Notebook
• Dishwasher
• Freezer
• Home robot
• Home entertainment system
• Information technologies
• Cooker
• Microwave oven
• Refrigerator
• Robotic vacuum cleaner
• Tablet
• Telephone
• Television
• Water heater
• Washing machine

Electronic instrumentation

• Ammeter
• Capacitance meter
• Distortionmeter
• Electric energy meter
• LCR meter
• Microwave power meter
• Multimeter
• Network analyzer
• Ohmmeter
• Oscilloscope
• Psophometer
• Q meter
• Signal analyzer
• Signal generator
• Spectrum analyzer
• Transistor tester
• Tube tester
• Wattmeter
• Vectorscope
• Video signal generator
• Voltmeter
• VU meter

Memory technology

• • Flash memory
  • Hard drive systems
  • Optical storage
  • Probe Storage
  • Programmable read-only memory
  • Read-only memory
  • Solid-state drive (SSD)
  • Volatile memory

Microcontrollers

• Features
  • Analog-to-digital converter
  • Central processing unit (CPU)
  • Clock generator (Quartz timing crystal, resonator or RC circuit)
  • Debugging support
  • Digital-to-analog converters
  • Discrete input and output bits
  • In-circuit programming
  • Non-volatile memory (ROM, EPROM, EEPROM or Flash)
  • Peripherals (Timers, event counters, PWM generators, and watchdog)
  • Serial interface (Input/output such as serial ports (UARTs))
  • Serial communications (I²C, Serial Peripheral Interface and Controller Area Network)
  • Volatile memory (RAM)
• 8-bit microcontroller families:

AVR - PIC - COP8 - MCS-48 - MCS-51 - Z8 - eZ80 - HC08 - HC11 - H8 - PSoC

• Some notable suppliers:
  • ARM
  • Atmel
  • Cypress Semiconductor
  • Freescale
  • Intel
  • MIPS
  • Microchip Technology
  • NXP Semiconductors
  • Parallax Propeller
  • PowerPC
  • Rabbit 2000
  • Renesas RX, V850
  • Silicon Laboratories
  • STMicroelectronics
  • Texas Instruments
  • Toshiba TLCS

Optoelectronics

• Optical fiber
• Optical properties
• Optical receivers
• Optical system design
• Optical transmitters

Physical laws

• Ampère's law
• Coulomb's law
• Faraday's law of induction/Faraday-Lenz law
• Gauss's law
• Kirchhoff's circuit laws
  • Current law
  • Voltage law
• Maxwell's equations
  • Gauss's law
  • Faraday's law of induction
  • Ampère's law
• Ohm's law

Power electronics

• Power Devices
  • Gate turn-off thyristor
  • MOS-controlled thyristor (MCT)
  • Power BJT/MOSFET
  • Static induction devices
• Electric power conversion
  • DC to DC
    • DC to DC converter
    • Voltage stabiliser
    • Linear regulator
  • AC to DC
    • Rectifier
    • Mains power supply unit (PSU)
    • Switched-mode power supply
  • DC to AC
    • Inverter
  • AC to AC
    • Cycloconverter
    • Transformer
    • Variable frequency transformer
    • Voltage converter
    • Voltage regulator
• Power applications
  • Automotive applications
  • Capacitor charging applications
  • Electronic ballasts
  • Energy harvesting technologies
  • Flexible AC transmission systems (FACTS)
  • High frequency inverters
  • HVDC transmission
  • Motor controller
  • Photovoltaic system Conversion
  • Power factor correction circuits
  • Power supply
  • Renewable energy sources
  • Switching power converters
  • Uninterruptible power supply
  • Wind power

Programmable devices

• Application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC)
• Complex programmable logic device (CPLD)
• Erasable programmable logic device (EPLD)
• Simple programmable logic device (SPLD)
• Macrocell array
• Programmable array logic (PAL)
• Programmable logic array (PLA)
• Programmable logic device (PLD)
• Field-programmable gate array (FPGA)
• VHSIC Hardware Description Language (VHDL)
• Verilog Hardware Description Language
• Some notable suppliers:

Altera - Atmel - Cypress Semiconductor - Lattice Semiconductor - Xilinx

Semiconductors theory

• Properties
  • Bipolar junction transistors
  • Capacitance voltage profiling
  • Charge carrier
  • Charge-transfer complex
  • Deep-level transient spectroscopy
  • Depletion region
  • Density of states
  • Diode modelling
  • Direct band gap
  • Electronic band structure
  • Energy level
  • Exciton
  • Field-effect transistors
  • Metal–semiconductor junction
  • MOSFETs
  • N-type semiconductor
  • Organic semiconductors
  • P–n junction
  • P-type semiconductor
  • Photoelectric effect
  • Quantum tunneling
  • Semiconductor chip
  • Semiconductor detector
  • Solar cell
  • Transistor model
  • Thin film
  • Tight-binding model
• Device Fabrication
  • Semiconductor device fabrication
  • Semiconductor industry
  • Semiconductor consolidation

Applications

• Audio electronics
• Automotive electronics
• Avionics
• Control Systems
• Consumer electronics
• Data acquisition
• E-health
• Electronic book
• Electronics industry
• Electronic warfare
• Embedded systems
• Home automation
• Integrated circuits
• Marine electronics
• Microwave technology
• Military electronics
• Multimedia
• Nuclear electronics
• Open hardware
• Radar and Radionavigation
• Radio electronics
• Terahertz technology
• Video hardware
• Wired and Wireless Communications

See also

• Outline of electrical engineering

References

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