Best electronic design books according to redditors
We found 236 Reddit comments discussing the best electronic design books. We ranked the 48 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
We found 236 Reddit comments discussing the best electronic design books. We ranked the 48 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
Would probably be better to post this to r/ECE rather than to Hardware, but either way:
Shortly summarized:
A MOSFET is a 3-terminal device (4 if counting bulk, and there's also a 6T type), where you have Gate, Drain & Source. Assuming you know BJTs, you can "map" them as:
If again, we're comparing MOSFETs to BJTs, we can say that a MOSFET is a VCCS (Voltage controlled current-source), while BJTs are CCCS (Current controlled current-source). In other words, when you apply a voltage to the gate of a MOSFET you'll create a current at the drain of the MOSFET. The current that's generated depends of the operating region:
Normally one operates in the the saturation region.
Not sure how much details you want, but if you want to read more about MOSFETs you've got books such as Sedra & Smith or Razavi
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8051,
ARM,
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The Art of Electronics.
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Years ago I got my 2 year degree in electronics. Afterwards I ran across this book and it filled in ALOT of blanks with more layman explanations.
The Art of Electronics 2nd Edition
Hey! I can relate exactly to where your'e coming from. I, some years ago, decided I wanted to get into building synths. I ended up getting a job at a pedal company and have spent more time learning to build and repair pedals than synths. I don't work there anymore, but it gave me a lot of perspective into the field as we also made euro-rack modules.
First up: I don't want to scare you off from this, but just want to give you a realistic perspective so that you go into this knowing what you are getting into. Making synths is hard and it's expensive. As far as electronic projects go, making a synthesizer is up there on the list. I've repaired powerplant turbine controller circuitboards that were simpler than some of the synths I've owned. This isn't to say, "don't do it!" but, expect to learn a lot of fundamental and intermediate stuff before you ever have something like a fully-featured synth that you built in your hands.
It's also expensive. A cheap synth prototype is going to cost a couple hundred bucks, easy, while a more fully-featured prototype could cost into the thousands to produce, and that's just to build one working prototype. If you want to make a run of products you're going to need money up front, and not a small amount. So, just be prepared for that inevitability.
One final note is that my perspective is broad (digital and analog) but is rooted in analog electronics because that's where I started. This isn't the only path you can take to get to where you want to go but honestly in my opinion, even if you're going to go mostly digital later, you need to understand analog.
If you have never messed with electronics much before I highly recommend the Make: Electronics book. I'm a hands-on person and this was the most effective book I found that let me study electronics fundamentals the way I wanted to; by making stuff! No matter which direction you go on (digital, analog, hybrid, DSP, SID, etc) you're going to want to know how to pick the right resistor, or how to pop an LED into a circuit, and this book will teach you that.
Solid follow-up books from there are Make: More Electronics, Practical Electronics for Inventors, How To Diagnose and Fix Everything Electronic, and The Art of Electronics. All of these books are good books that touch on different concepts you will find useful, so I encourage you to look through them and decide for yourself which of these interests you.
Around this same time, I'd encourage you to start getting into kits. Honestly, before you build anything synth, I'm going to recommend you build some pedals. Effects pedals are fun and rewarding to build without being too hard. Start with a distortion circuit and work your way up from there. Once you can build a delay pedal without freaking out, move on to euro-rack kits, or other synth kits. While you're building these kits, don't just build them, play with the circuits! Try swapping components where you think you can, or adding features. One of my first kits was a distortion pedal with a single knob, but by the time I was done tweaking on it it had five knobs and two toggle switches!
Once you're feeling somewhat comfortable with electronics, then you can dive into the holy grail of analog synth design: Make: Analog Synthesizers this amazing book was written by the brilliant Ray Wilson who recently passed away. His life's goal was to bring the art of building analog synths into the hands of anyone who wanted to learn, and there is no better place to receive his great wisdom than this book. You should also check out his website Music From Outer Space along the way, but the book covers so much more than his website.
If you make through most or all of those resources you are going to be well-equipped to take on a career in synth-building! I'm personally still on that last step (trying to find the time to tackle Make: Analog Synthesizers) but hope within the next year or two to get that under my belt and start diving in deep myself. It's been a fun journey of learning and discovery and I wouldn't trade the skills I've gained in electronics for much.
Hope this helps, good luck!
yes, no, maybe?
It really depends on the type of circuit. For low frequency circuits like audio opamp circuits, or microcontrollers running at a few megahertz, it probably won't matter much. If you are switching high currents at high speed then you could run into problems. e.g. PWM controller for a motor, or LEDs.
Doing ground and VCC pours can mask problems because you lose sight of where your return signals paths are going. If you never need to put tracks on the bottom of the PCB then it's not so bad, but if you put tracks on the bottom of the PCB then you will start to break up the ground pour, potentially into isolated islands and bottlenecks.
If you solely rely on a ground pour you might not realise that one of the high frequency/current return paths goes all around the board.
You really should consider each Net individually and prioritise it based on current and frequency.
Do some reading on AC and DC PCB design.
https://www.maximintegrated.com/en/design/technical-documents/tutorials/5/5450.html
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Printed-Circuit-Design-Techniques-Compliance/dp/0780353765 - this is a good book for learning PCB design, and you can often find a PDF to download if you look hard enough.
Here's a question: from the point of view of PCB design, what's the difference between a 1MHz sine wave and a 1MHz square wave?
EDIT: search for "high speed PCB design" and you'll get articles which might help to explain it. You probably don't need to know the maths but try and get a general understanding of why you might do certain things on a PCB layout.
http://www.ti.com/lit/an/scaa082a/scaa082a.pdf
http://home.iitb.ac.in/~pradeepsarin/students/tether/generalectronicsfundaes/EMCPCB.pdf
http://www.elmac.co.uk/Lord_of_the_board.pdf
Personally, I think the best place for a lay-person to start getting a technical grasp of electronics is from the "Navy Electricity and
Electronics Training Series" (NEETS) modules. The modules don't always describe the electrical behavior in a rigorous physics/engineering based way, but instead, they provide more practical explanations and applications. The best part is that they are freely available here.
As a next step, the standard go-to book is The Art of Electronics, which while it is a little pricey, covers a greater breadth of topics at a greater depth.
edit: typo.
It's a fantastic book. No need to get all of them though, this is a pic of the third edition (2015), the second edition (1989), and the first edition (1980). You can skip the first and second.
The book is pretty good for a highly theoretical treatment of the subject. I had S&S for two semesters and it went fine. However for the practical aspects of circuit design, you need something like Practical Electronics for Inventors.
Also, a pretty good book on microelectronics is Fundamentals of Microelectronics by Behzad Razavi
Well, electronics is a huge field, and especially if you're going to get into software radio, basic fundamentals of amplifiers and modulation techniques is a must. Don't get discouraged though, internet is abound in information.
Here are some books that may help to start:
The Art of Electronics
Especially if you can get the used Cambridge Low Price Edition. Either way, it's a good book for fundamentals, a classic too.
This book is ok:
Communications Receivers
For general electronics knowledge, some undergrad EE textbooks are solid gold.
Here's one that's great:
Circuits, Devices and Systems
Edit:
Another excellent resource for folks dabbling in electronics are these free simulators:
Paul Falstad's Circuit Simulator
Hades
The above are great before one gets to dip into SPICE.
The Art of Electronics. Otherwise, his textbooks should suffice.
Only kind of people that mishandle books say that (/s).
But seriously, borrowing to people and (in case of technical books) reference material. And some of them are really fucking expensive
Thanks!
link for anyone interested: http://www.amazon.com/The-Art-Electronics-Paul-Horowitz/dp/0521370957
Buy yourself of copy of the art of electronics. Pick one or two topics from that book every day and read about them. It covers pretty much every aspect of EE without going into an insane amount of detail. Use that to narrow your focus once you find something that really interests you. EE is a huge area of engineering and you’re not gonna like all aspects of it but the art of electronics is a great start.
The Art of Electronics https://www.amazon.com/dp/0521809266/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_FeY5BbNKDNXSF
Edit: to add on to this. Adafruit has a ton of more entry level friendly tutorials and stuff. Find a component on their store and they’ll have tons of projects and tutorials using those components. They don’t get much in to how it all works. You’re going to have to read for that. Kahn academy is pretty good at explaining stuff too.
I did learn all of this stuff from experience. Honestly, I had a little bit of a tough time right out of college because I didn't have much practical circuit design experience. I now feel like I have a very good foundation for that and it came through experience, learning from my peers, and lots of research. I have no affiliation with Henry Ott, but I treat his book like a bible . I refer to it just about every time I do a board design. Why? because it's packed with this type of practical information. Here's his book. I bought mine used as cheap as I could. At my previous job, they just had one in the library. Either way, it was good to have around.
So why should you care about electromagnetic compatibility (EMC)? A couple reasons:
Anyways, it's definitely worth looking at and is a huge asset if you can follow those guidelines. Be prepared to enter the workforce and see rampant disregard for EMC best practices as well as rampant EMC problems in existing products. This is common because, as I said, it's not taught and engineers often don't know what tools to use to fix it. It often leads to expensive solutions where a few extra caps and a better layout would have sufficed.
A couple more books I personally like and use:
Howard Johnson, High Speed Digital Design (it's from 1993, but still works well)
Horowitz and Hill, The Art of Electronics (good for understanding just about anything, good for finding tricks and ideas to help you for problems you haven't solved before but someone probably has)
Last thing since I'm sitting here typing anyways:
When I first got out of college, I really didn't trust myself even when I had done extensive research on a particular part of design. I was surrounded by engineers who also didn't have the experience or knowledge to say whether I was on the right path or not. It's important to use whatever resources you have to gain experience, even if those resources are books alone. It's unlikely that you will be lucky and get a job working with the world's best EE who will teach you everything you need to know. When I moved on from my first job after college, I found out that I was on the right path on many things thanks to my research and hard work. This was in opposition to my thinking before then as my colleagues at my first job were never confident in our own ability to "do EE the right way" - as in, the way that engineers at storied, big companies like Texas Instruments and Google had done. Hope that anecdotal story pushes you to keep going and learning more!
You have to "bootstrap" somewhere. At the VERY bottom is generally NOT a productive or practical way to do it. We used to have a joke in EE school: "If want a good laugh, ask a physicist to design a circuit for you". The reason it's funny is they'll start designing from quantum mechanics or Maxwell's equation as they usually don't ever learn all the tricks we have in EE to "short-circuit" the process.
Basically start with analog circuits (Ohm's law) for DC, advance to AC and then to circuits and systems. You can go deeper but at the start frankly most people will get wrapped around the axle and give up first.
Everything from Grand Unification up to your iPhone is built on approximate models with assumptions that are not strictly correct all of the time if ever. In electronics you have circuits bounded by Quantum Mechanics and Maxwell's Equations as "actual physics". You can't actually use these for 99% of anything practical so these are not the best starting points.
Instead you use approximate models like Lumped Equivalent Model (which is what resistors, capacitors and inductors are: that resistor in your hand - it's not real - just an approximation). But you don't really want to learn that up front.
However if you want a reference that goes into the physics of electronics I'd recommend The Physics of Information Technology. Not cheap so borrow it from a library first.
But ONLY use it when you get that itch to naively dig into the physics for a quick dip or overview or orientation. Otherwise use regular electrical engineering (EE) intro analog circuit textbooks or something like Horowitz' Art of Electronics
Unless you have a physics or engineering degree TPIT will still go straight over your head mostly (the author is an MIT professor and he relatively gentle by BSEE/BS Physics standards on the math but it's brutal if you haven't had several years of university math).
The Art of Electronics, 2nd Edition. You can easily find free pdf versions of the book online just by typing "the art of electronics pdf" into google. Or you can purchase the book on sites like amazon for ~$100.
Best online resource: All about circuits
Best Book: Art of Electronics
Best starting projects: Working with the basic stamp (though any other microcontroller kit would work just as well)
It was called "The Art of Electronics"
Here's the Amazon link.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0521809266/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_yd.UBbKSAF1SH
assuming you have all the fundamental physic, you can start with the textbook from allaboutcircuits's textbook. A introduction to electronic book. It is about 2000 pages covering all basics of electronics. I think it is a great read and easy to understand, written for beginners.
After that you should read Make:AVR programming. It is quite enjoyable read and I read it in 2 sitting. A computer engineering book specifically targeting microcontroller. And as the name imply, it is about 8 bit AVR which is easily the most popular arduino variant. It covers a lot of detail on microcontroller basics and underlying electronic concept and working principles.
To supplement the above book, read a atmel datasheet on one of their microcontroller (atmega328 is a good choice).
For optional knowledge you can try Make's Encyclopedia Of Electronic Components It basically covers all electronic components and introduce you to it. I didn't like too much because you cant read it as a book but should use it as a reference to a particular component you are interested it. It is a great way to broaden your scope on what components is available to you.
Then for the advanced stuff you can read the The Art of Electronics By many it is consider the holy grail of electronic textbook. But I think it is difficult to read without an formal EE education.
I started with circuit bending. I took a student-taught class as part of the Oberlin College ExCo, which is the Experimental College, where any student can teach a class for a single credit, provided they can demonstrate to a faculty panel that they have something to teach and a plan on how to teach it. That got me started on instrument building, and also on circuit design. I worked on that as a hobby for several years, until eventually I was friends with some people who were getting into Eurorack manufacturing: the 4MS crew, when they were still in Austin. Ralph and Dan encouraged me to move from bending (and breaking) toys into creating circuits, and gave me a few good starting tips (and copies of a few Forrest Mims books, which are absolutely invaluable). Another year or two after that, I was talking with Mickey, and he mentioned that he had the good problem that his modules were selling too fast, and he was bored of soldering, and wanted more time to design. I piped up quick. "I know how to solder! I'm very good at it." The second part was a lie. It's true now, though! Everything more advanced that I know about circuits I've learned from Mickey, the internet, and a bit more book learnin', especially from The Art of Electronics. I told the story of getting started on the pedal (which was my first commercial pedal) elsewhere in this thread.
The biggest hiccup was finding ROHS compliant vactrols! But we're cool on that now. Thanks, XVIVE!
Understanding a circuit does require understanding the fundmantal building blocks. For that, there is no better guide than the Art of Electronics. While you might find a guide that says, "this circuit works with a common emitter amplifier," you aren't going to find guides that alway explain those fundamental circuits.
That's where AoE comes in. All of the building blocks are explain in plain simple language. It is worth every penny and I recommend everyone who is interested in circuit design to have a copy. If you can get a good deal on the 2nd edition (e.g. half the price of the 3rd), then go that route. The vast majority of the information is still fine on the older book.
>I'm sorry but I'm skeptical about your qualifications.
As you should be. Luckily, this link outlines the theory sufficiently, so you don't have to.
>And you missed one very important word. Try again:
I ignored this because there is nothing special about airplane electronics that would warrant a distinction from regular electronics for the sake of this discussion. There is a distinction between the standards airplane electronics are held to vs. consumer, but the electronics themselves are equally subject to physics and the electromagnetic spectrum.
>Spoiler: It doesn't.
Yours might not, but what about the Chinese counterfeit version the guy next to you bought off ebay for half the price? You bet your ass that device isn't up to spec.
Or what about the condition you happened to uncover for the first time, that just couldn't be anticipated in any tests? This stuff is very difficult to predict, and is often times referred to as "black magic" in the industry for this reason. Look at this book description title on the topic:
PCB Design Techniques for EMC Compliance:
"Electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) is an engineering discipline often identified as "black magic." This belief exists because the fundamental mechanisms on how radio frequency (RF) energy is developed within a printed circuit board (PCB) is not well understood by practicing engineers."
It is incredibly arrogant of you to think you can intuition your way around this topic. Certainly not the trait of a skeptic.
Some people like this book: Art of Electronics
https://www.amazon.com/Art-Electronics-Paul-Horowitz/dp/0521370957
It's not synth-specific, but definitely get yourself a copy of Horowitz and Hill's textbook "The Art of Electronics". I've yet to meet a synth-head or electrician lacking one. This'll tell you all about op-amps, fundamental building blocks of filters, oscillators, and other complex elements, and even power electronics if you're interested in power supply design. (No exaggeration, it starts and Ohm's law and ends with complex filters, PLLs, and how to program your new discrete-digital computer in assembly.) Again, not synth-specific, but the book explores how all of these things may be used in application. This'll help you develop intuition to break down complex synth diagrams and how exponential converters work, for example.
I haven't picked up a copy, but I've heard nothing but good things about The Art of Electronics. Apparently it's very design-oriented and light on the math rape.
Pretty expensive, but finding a pdf may be possible.
This book used to be/still is what people swear by.
This should NOT be the first book you buy and open, it is too intense to start with. However, it should be something you look at in your quest to understand it all.
The Art of Electronics
http://www.amazon.com/Art-Electronics-Paul-Horowitz/dp/0521370957
TCP/IP Illustrated, Vol 1-3, W. Richard Stevens.
The Art of Electronics 3rd Edition, Paul Horowitz and Winfield Hill.
Gravitation, Charles W. Misner, John Archibald Wheeler, and Kip Thorne.
https://contextualelectronics.com/ by /u/Chris_Gammell
https://www.edx.org/course/circuits-electronics-1-basic-circuit-mitx-6-002-1x-0
https://www.edx.org/course/circuits-electronics-2-amplification-mitx-6-002-2x-0
https://www.edx.org/course/circuits-electronics-3-applications-mitx-6-002-3x-0
https://www.edx.org/course/embedded-systems-shape-the-world-microcontroller-inputoutput
The Art of Electronics https://smile.amazon.com/dp/0521809266/
Learning the Art of Electronics: A Hands-On Lab Course https://smile.amazon.com/dp/0521177235/
A couple of recommendations:
First, there are the classic Forrest Mims books they are the quintessential beginner level books. Radio Shack used to sell them. They are very introductory and tend to be rather brief for easy consumption. I'm not a huge fan of the style personally but others LOVE them a lot. Many many many hobbyists and engineers got their start with these books.
Another option I like a lot is Practical Electronics for Inventors, 3rd Ed. by Paul Scherz and Simon Monk. This book is a great beginners book that will take you nicely into circuit theory and things like that. Not as advanced as an academic tome but advanced enough for you to learn a good amount and establish a solid foundation.
Lastly, there is the very advanced Art of Electronics 3rd Ed. by Horowitz and Hill. This is the classic introductory text for engineers and hobbyists alike. It is very math heavy but you will have a very very good understanding of what's going on.
One non-book recommendation is the AllAboutCircuits online textbook tutorial. It is pretty well enumerated and detailed, though it is a bit lacking in sample problems. A great free resource that you can start learning now.
Beyond this, once you get a solid foundation. You can start focusing in specific areas like digital, power, precision measurements, etc.
I was thinking about using Designing Analog Chips by Hans Camenzind along with The Art of Electronics by Paul Horowitz as a guide for projects to do. I also recognize its important to know to design digital electronics (even though it may not necessarily be my strength) and know how to do research if I do end up doing the PhD so I was also looking into these books: link 1, link 2, and link 3. Are there any other books I should look into?
While it looks kind of scary by its size and thickness I like The Art of Electronics (https://www.amazon.ca/Art-Electronics-Paul-Horowitz/dp/0521809266/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1524591686&sr=8-1&keywords=the+art+of+electronics&dpID=51oDPY4SbfL&preST=_SX198_BO1,204,203,200_QL40_&dpSrc=srch) with its lab companion volume (https://www.amazon.ca/Learning-Art-Electronics-Hands-Course/dp/0521177235/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1524591686&sr=8-2&keywords=the+art+of+electronics&dpID=51DvCTSt%252BeL&preST=_SX198_BO1,204,203,200_QL40_&dpSrc=srch).
Amazon have April 30th 2015. http://www.amazon.com/Art-Electronics-Paul-Horowitz/dp/0521809266/
The Circuit Designer's Companion was a great resource when I was getting started. I've got the second edition and still use it from time to time. I think they're on the third edition now. ISBN 0-7506-6370-7
I've used Fundamentals of Microelectronics by Behzad Razavi and I thought it did a great job. I've also followed up with his book on analog CMOS IC design in more advanced courses. I unfortunately don't have any recommendations for comms textbooks.
As far as software goes, there are a few basics you should learn: matlab, a scripting language (python, perl, or tcl depending on where you go and what you do), and enough C programming to get by, or a lot of C programming if you go into embedded systems. You will also want to develop a familiarity with linux, especially when it comes to using ssh and a shell in general (shell scripting is a plus). People will argue left and right about matlab vs. numpy+scipy but realistically it's not hard to learn both, and as a student you likely have access to matlab through your school, so the cost is a non-issue. Matlab remains a de facto standard, and python is gaining popularity.
A lot of this stuff just sort of comes up incidentally in coursework, but I really think the linux fluency is something that is overlooked by many. Knowing how to use version control (learn git, everything else has feature parity or is simpler), knowing how to edit from a command line (it barely matters if it's vim, nano, or emacs, you just need to know how to open a file and make some changes without spending time trying to scp files around or googling how to use the editors, if you're in a hurry), and knowing how to perform basic tasks like renaming files or folders, which I've seen other grad students struggle with, are all pretty important. I've considered putting together some key points on this, along with software to understand how to use to improve your effectiveness, which I'd be willing to do up in the next week or so if there's interest.
https://www.amazon.com/Electrical-Engineering-101-Everything-Probably/dp/0123860016
"Electrical Engineering 101: Everything You Should Have Learned in School...but Probably Didn't"
Find it in a library or pick it up. Solid review book that discusses concepts and reasoning but isn't just a bunch of problems. Chapter 0 and 1 alone have paid for the book many many times over in my career.
Pickup an old (two or three revisions back) FE study guide. The PPI books have tons of review books but the FE is very thorough.
Check out https://www.allaboutcircuits.com/education/ . Find some blogs that discuss the specialty that you are wanting to pursue.
When interviewing, make sure you speak through your thought process. People want to get an understanding of how you approach problems.
Being a EE fits many problems that people are looking to hire for. Don't limit yourself.
Godspeed, Good luck (you make your own) and good hunting.
For those that want a great physical book, i'm sure many will agree, The Art of Electronics is a must have.
http://www.amazon.com/Art-Electronics-Paul-Horowitz/dp/0521370957/ref=pd_bbs_sr_5?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1210174245&sr=8-5
if you look hard enough, you can find a pdf
As an electronics engingeer, purchase a copy of "The art of electronics"
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0521370957/ref=mp_s_a_1?qid=1321710457&sr=8-1
This book, although expensive, covers almost everything you would learn pursuing a degree in electrical or electronics engineering. Its a great bench reference book when you need it.
The trick is find an area of electronics that interest you. The Arduino is a great place to start.
Okay, I think i may have came across a great source for those who want to learn more about video.
Video Tutorials
Also some books I would suggest for those who are at least somewhat knowledgeable of electronics:
Active Filter Cookbook
CMOS Cookbook
Art of Electronics
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I would also highly recommend brushing up on your math, if you want to build more advanced electronics. It's not impossible to learn, just take your time.
Embedded Systems: Introduction to Arm Cortex-M Microcontrollers , Fifth Edition (Volume 1) https://www.amazon.com/dp/1477508996/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_tai_lEcJBbGEZ1DE5
Digital Design and Computer Architecture: ARM Edition https://www.amazon.com/dp/0128000562/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_tai_aFcJBb49BEQFE
The Art of Electronics https://www.amazon.com/dp/0521809266/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_tai_AFcJBb6P452VQ
https://www.publishing.umich.edu/publications/ee/
Troubleshooting Analog Circuits (EDN Series for Design Engineers) https://www.amazon.com/dp/0750694998/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_tai_MGcJBbHN2BD9G
Should help your for microcontrollers
It sounds like you're ready for The Art of Electronics.
http://smile.amazon.com/dp/0521809266
Third Edition
The Art of electronics is a pretty good overview.
Analog Circuit Design, 4 volume set D. Feucht
Analysis and Design of Analog Integrated Circuits P. Gray and R. Meyer
Analysis and Design of Digital Integrated Circuis Hodges and Jackson
Audio Power Amplifier Design Handbook D. Self
Optimizing Op Amp Performance J. Graeme
https://www.amazon.com/Understanding-Delta-Sigma-Converters-Richard-Schreier/dp/0471465852
One of my favorite books for this sort of stuff is RTL Hardware Design Using VHDL. As the title implies, this book is entirely in VHDL rather than Verilog. Nonetheless, the concepts and building blocks it provides will certainly translate over to just about anything.
This is an IEEE standard book for it. You can probably find it online as a .pdf for free. It's a pretty good book.
Ah! I remember that.
There was a gold and a silver version. Striped lettering.
Found it:
https://www.amazon.com/Art-Electronics-Paul-Horowitz/dp/0521370957
The Art of Electronics by Horowitz and Hill is one of the classic texts to learn electronics.
http://www.amazon.com/Art-Electronics-Paul-Horowitz/dp/0521370957
https://www.amazon.com/Art-Electronics-Paul-Horowitz/dp/0521370957
That will help with electronic circuits. For basic passive networks, any book on linear electrical circuits would be ok.
Get yourself a copy of The Art of Electronics: by Horowitz & Hill.
If you have ninety four dollars you can buy a copy of Horowitz and Hill's book THE ART OF ELECTRONICS which is a good introduction to electronic circuit design.
https://imgur.com/a/8bLY4pw
and
https://www.amazon.com/Art-Electronics-Paul-Horowitz/dp/0521370957
It is a good text; I think you can answer your own question just by looking at the table of contents, which you can find here:
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https://www.amazon.com/Art-Electronics-Paul-Horowitz/dp/0521370957
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These chapters describe the building blocks of basically any modern circuit - although you probably won't be able to assemble your own microprocessor from scratch by reading this text since that would require a lot of knowledge of CMOS production techniques.
Start reading here.
Pick a project, try it, break it, learn from it, then do it again.
Also, if you need a reference, The Art of Electronics is the bible of electronics.
Save your money and get this. I think it's admirable that you're trying to learn electronics through building something, but just adding a random capacitor to an amp is going to do more harm than good. Caps can carry a charge too and can zap you if you're not careful. So please be careful and study a little before experimenting things which can cause you bodily harm. When you've learned a little bit, ditch the computer power supplies and build/buy a power supply specifically for audio applications. diyaudio.com specifically has a section for power supply design.
The Art of Electronics
The Art of Electronics Student Manual
The Arcade Manual Archive
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This one isn't cheap, but: http://www.amazon.com/Art-Electronics-Paul-Horowitz/dp/0521370957/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1279561376&sr=8-1
It's A to Z how analog and digital electronics work. It builds the knowledge intelligently, without skipping steps, and even gives you the math you need to engineer the circuit.
Edited to add: under $20 for a used comb-bound version. I retract my "not cheap" and change it to "not free"
> Lotfi Zadeh in his 1965 paper which I am looking at right now, specifically used the term 'binary fuzzy relations' and not 'boolean logic' to describe the reduction of full fuzzy logic to the two-value case.
Uh huh.
What a reasonable person would get from that is "he must be talking about something else."
What you got from that is "I just looked at one paper with a different title. That must mean you're talking about this other thing and you're wrong!"
Stop being stupid, please. Binary fuzzy relations and boolean fuzzy logic are different things.
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/Xplore/login.jsp?url=http%3A%2F%2Fieeexplore.ieee.org%2Fiel2%2F1022%2F7759%2F00327527.pdf%3Farnumber%3D327527&authDecision=-203
http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/979737741-43493136/content~db=all~content=a713811231
http://sciencelinks.jp/j-east/article/200117/000020011701A0530818.php
This is the part where you pretend that even though you found one paper with a different title and pretended that was evidence I was wrong, now that I've found three other much more modern papers involving that title, suddenly paper titles don't matter.
> to describe the reduction of full fuzzy logic to the two-value case.
That's not what boolean fuzzy logic is, though.
> Since he's the one defining the field
Maybe you didn't know this, but there are a lot of other people working in this field than the one guy you know about, and one paper from 1965 doesn't mean that in the 45 years since, nobody's come up with anything else.
> try not to lecture me about right and wrong.
Tu quoque, clown.
> And binary logic has been a term used in electrical engineering for a very long time for two-state logic.
No, it hasn't. EEs have to implement this difference at the chip level. Basically all CPUs support both bitwise and boolean logic at the instruction level.
You're just making shit up to sound correct. You cannot cite even one EE textbook making this mistake.
http://www.amazon.com/Art-Electronics-Paul-Horowitz/dp/0521370957
Page 61. So sorry. Maybe you can find an EE book making this mistake, since I just showed you arguably the canonical intro to EE text, and gave you the specific page number on which that book says you are not correct?
No, of course not. Because you don't actually own any EE books and don't have any way to check.
For all your talk of lectures about right and wrong, citations are brutal. Try one some time; you might be more effective as a result.
You'll need to know basic analog electronics first, and then apply it to learning about logic gates. Otherwise you'll have trouble understanding things like totem poll versus open collector or open drain, why you need pull-up resistors, why there are limits to fan outs, and why unconnected CMOS inputs can make the chip cook.
The Art of Electronics will cover practically everything you need for your project including analog circuits, digital circuits, logic and even MCU's. I've yet to meet an electronics person that didn't have a copy. If your mathematics isn't strong you'll love it, and if your mathematics is strong it'll build your intuition.
this book was kinda like the engineering bible when I was in school. Explains things in an easy to understand manner:
http://www.amazon.com/Art-Electronics-Paul-Horowitz/dp/0521370957/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1426750522&sr=8-2&keywords=the+art+of+electronics
You mentioned Arduino, so I'd recommend this book and Make:Electronics
For the more academic side of things I'd recommend, The Art of Electronics Student Manual
Try 'Practical Electronics for Inventors' by 'Paul Scherz'. This book is awesome. It is quite cheap too.
https://www.amazon.com/Practical-Electronics-Inventors-Fourth-Scherz/dp/1259587541
You can also try 'The Art of Electronics'. Its 3rd edition was released a year back I think. It has an informal style, so, I suppose you'll like it.
https://www.amazon.com/d/cka/Art-Electronics-Paul-Horowitz/0521809266
This site is also good.
https://www.allaboutcircuits.com/
Div Grad Curl and all that
The Art of Electronics
These aren't websites, but The Art of Electronics and its companion Learning the Art of Electronics are often referred to as learning resources, for good reason.
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There are of course web sites that teach you electronics, but not on the level these two books, imho. If you don't want to buy books, then I'd recommend you to go watch bigclivedotcom and EEVblog, they have some great content. There are lots of other YT channels with similar content.
Here are several textbooks on the subject which I used back in the day and still have a proud spot on my bookshelf:
Acoustics by Beranek (classic acoustical engineering theory from an MIT professor)
https://www.amazon.com/dp/088318494X
The Art of Electronics by Horowitz and Hill (for low level lessons on circuit components like DACs and op amps)
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0521809266/
Introduction To Electroacoustics and Audio Amplifier Design by Leach (more theory by a professor) https://www.amazon.com/dp/0757572863/
JBL Audio Engineering for Sound Reinforcement (practical applications) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00GQZQ8UE/
White noise posting here.
Obviously not everything in there...but both do a really good job at pointing out not only typical circuits + intuition, but also on what common configurations of passives do and what they are used for. Sometimes you can look at some circuit and there are three or four resistors/caps/inductors that don't seem to do anything but touch the ground rail...figuring out what those do is very handy as well, and those links to a good job at helping you sort that out.
One of the better online resources for getting from zero to basic understanding is the Navy Electricity and Electronics Training Series.
http://www.fcctests.com/neets/Neets.htm
For something with more rigor and much more depth. one could do worse than "The Art of Electronics" by Paul Horowitz, Winfield Hill. But that might not be basic enough for some.
https://www.amazon.com/Art-Electronics-Paul-Horowitz/dp/0521809266/
Specifically, http://www.amazon.com/Art-Electronics-Paul-Horowitz/dp/0521809266/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1453081730&sr=8-1&keywords=art+of+electronics
High Speed Digital Design: A Handbook of Black Magic is supposed to be a great book on the subject but the frequencies you're working at don't really qualify as anything approaching "high speed". I really don't think you'll have any issues. The wavelength at 100 kHz is 3 kilometers so you're nowhere near having to worry about transmission line effects.
Make sure to adequately decouple every power pin at the chip to deal with the switching transients from the FETs otherwise you'll see a lot of ripple on your supply lines which can cause problems. ADI generally uses a 1 uF and 100 nF capacitor in parallel (IIRC) in their application circuits and I tend to think they know what they're doing.
Is your copper pour grounded? I wouldn't be very worried about coupling noise into your logic traces because 400 Hz is such a low frequency but I suppose it's possible.
ADI publishes a guide called "PCB Board Layout and Design Techniques" that goes through things like proper grounding but I didn't have any luck trying to find it on Google. The Circuit Designer's Companion is an excellent book that also covers the same material with a lot more depth.
http://www.amazon.com/Communication-Circuits-Analysis-Kenneth-Clarke/dp/0894648632/ref=cm_rdp_product
Ott's book is awesome, also check out Bogatin.
Depending on your experience level (which sounds light) this book may also be good to have, especially if your company uses EAGLE. It's old and not especially well focused in places, but there is simply nothing else out there for beginners, book-wise.
Thanks for the help. I will definitely check it out. The one I ended up ordering was:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/007142783X?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00
It has some really good reviews so I hope it holds up.
in the same boat myself and was reccomended this book,
Still working my way through it so no verdict on it yet,
Might be work a look for you though.
http://www.amazon.com/Electrical-Engineering-101-Third-School-but/dp/0123860016/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1381095286&sr=1-1&keywords=electrical+engineering+101
This book is a must have in my opinion.
Electrical Engineering 101
I've been an electronics technician for 12 years and an engineer for 3. I still reference this book all the time when I need a review of the basics. Really awesome approach to teaching the very basics of electronics.
I'm sure we'd all be willing to help, but you need to ask better questions. I work in the telecommunications industry for a company that develops carrier networking products, and yet I've little idea what you're really wanting. So for now, I'll answer the question that you have asked, though I doubt you'll like the answer.
>So what I would like is some books that explain what parameters affect the energy consumption at the telecommunications infrastructure.
The parameters that effect energy consumption are resistance, capacitance, and inductance. As far as books on the subject? I don't know. Maybe The Art of Electronics?
The Art of Electronics is an oldie but is very well written and quite entertaining. It goes through just about everything to the 68000 microprocessor (think the first Macintosh and a number of other platforms). For example, transistor man.
The canonical source is the book "Art Of Electronics" - http://www.amazon.com/Art-Electronics-Paul-Horowitz/dp/0521370957
If you want something online, try googling for "basic electronics". Tons.
This page explains it fairly well, I think. So do Horowitz and Hill, if by chance you have their book handy.
I have used that basic design on a few different occasions, although my triangle wave generator looked more like this one. I believe I used an LM741 for the integrator (that's the amplifier with the capacitor in its feedback loop) and the two halves of an LM393 for the comparator in the triangle wave generator + the comparator used to make the PWM. Those exact parts aren't critical by any means, and I don't see anything wrong with Paul Hills' circuit (the first link) either except the part count is higher.
Edit: If you can find an MC33030, or if you care to trawl through catalogs looking for a modern (i.e. orderable) substitute, it will do do the PWM generation for you and it even includes the H-bridge to drive a motor (or in your case, coil) up to 1 amp.
Now that the 3rd edition has been published, used copies of the 2nd edition of The Art of Electronics is super cheap. I think this is the best intro circuits book for self study. Alternatively, I've really enjoyed Practical Electronics for Inventors too, and it covers more modern stuff (like it has a chapter on arduino). Both of these start with the basics, though Practical Electronics written for a more general audience so it is easier on the math.
For electromagnetics, I've heard Electricity and Magnetism is pretty good. It does cover some circuits stuff, but so much of circuits is about electronic components that you really need a dedicated circuits book to understand them.
This book?
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0521370957/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awdb_ehsUzb9K25VCF
I like to use The Art of Electronics as my basic reference book.
The definitive electronics textbook is The Art of Electronics by Paul Horowitz and Winfield Hill. As with all textbooks it's quite expensive, but you can get used copies of the second edition at a fairly reasonable price.
Guitar electronics are boneheadedly simple and have barely changed in 60 years, but you do need a good understanding of the fundamentals to make sense of them.
While I understand the desire to make something and see the fruits of your labor, true understanding will come best through reading and research. I mean, you could start making circuits of someone else's design and then play around with the arrangement and values of components, but at best you are really just generating a case-by-case feel of how a particular circuit operates. Doing some calculations with many sets of hypothetical circuits (rather than building a bunch of circuits and playing around and taking measurements) will be a much more efficient way to really get understanding of how these things work.
I would recommend the discrete electronics bible, Horowitz And Hill's The Art of Electronics as well as Malik's Electronic Circuits. (Edit: actually, it's been a while since I've used these books and I can't remember what scope they really cover. I know Malik is a little more advanced and concentrates on state devices like diodes and transistors. Really, a basic engineering circuit analysis textbook might be best)
You should also check out this java applet. It is surprisingly powerful and gives a really good general idea of what electronic components do ('visually' and numerically)
The defacto bible is "The Art of Electronics" by Horowitz and Hill which still sells for $100 even though the latest edition is from 1989. It is a thick book, but is better than most textbooks IMHO. They refer to many part numbers that are long past gone, but it should give you the vocab and keywords for you to search out the current parts.
http://www.amazon.com/The-Art-Electronics-Paul-Horowitz/dp/0521370957/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1342471024&sr=8-1&keywords=art+of+electronics
Other than that, if you want more beginner books - look at Make: Electronics
http://www.amazon.com/Make-Electronics-Discovery-Charles-Platt/dp/0596153740/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1342471247&sr=1-1&keywords=make+learning+electronics or the Forrest Mims books
As far as power supplies specifically, I believe I found a couple of howto webpages that described the basics - I'll edit this post if I find them again.
A very good introduction to electronics and circuits is The Art of Electronics by Horowitz and Hill. There is an accompanying lab manual that takes you through building some cool circuits.
This is often referred to as "The Bible" and is a common text for undergrads in physics. I still use it as a PhD student.
There are tons of books for learning basic Electronics. Any one of them will give you the basics, but you won't be able to get your EE degree in 2 weeks.
http://www.amazon.com/Understanding-Basic-Electronics-Softcover-arrl/dp/0872590828/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1335460522&sr=8-1
http://www.amazon.com/Getting-Started-Electronics-Forrest-Mims/dp/0945053282/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&qid=1335460522&sr=8-7
This book will show you all the stuff you don't know yet (because I seriously doubt you could read this book in 2 weeks and have an understanding of what is in it):
http://www.amazon.com/The-Art-Electronics-Paul-Horowitz/dp/0521370957/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1335460573&sr=8-1
Practical Electronics for Inventors is an amazing book which covers the basics of essentially every aspect of electronics a beginner would need to know. Seems to have had a problem with poor editing but it's cheap (under $30) and still far better than anything else out there.
The Art of Electronics is twenty years old and is still pretty much the standard reference for practical electrical engineering topics. Some sections show their age but still incredibly useful. A new edition is supposed to be coming out eventually.
It's best to learn by doing, but sometimes those kits don't cut it. Like others, I recommend toying with a breadboard, but I also think getting your hands on these books will also help. They're beginner's books, are easy to follow, and have some interesting circuits to play around with. Additionally, there is a tiny bit of theory in it. If you want to go hardcore into the theory without having to do much math, go for the electronics bible, Horowitz and Hill.
If cost is a concern for your prototype, there's OSH Park. They pool and panel orders and make the boards at a place in Illinois I believe. I haven't used them yet, but will be placing an order in a couple days. For layout help, you might ask on the EE stack exchange site or the Sparkfun forum. Before laying out your board, be sure to set the design rules in your software to those from whichever fab you select. Here's a comparison of boards ordered from OSH Park and two other inexpensive options.
The Art of Electronics has a section on board layout, and there are a bunch of application note PDFs out there from semi companies:
For Reduced EMI
These guides are specific to certain microcontrollers, but still have good info:
As someone who recently transitioned a prototype from Arduino/breadboard to a custom board, I'd also suggest you take a look at ARM if you aren't tied to Atmel. The performance for STM32 and Stellaris chips is great considering the cost, and they are almost price competitive with PIC and Atmel chips. TI has a Stellaris launchpad board now, and ST has several cheap eval boards. There is a gcc toolchain for ARM, and the MikroE ARM compiler is a reasonably-priced commercial option (demo up to 8k program space).
What software are you using for layout?
Ahh... then, that being the case, if you're a novice with electronic theory, then I highly suggest this book: The Art of Electronics.
"The Art of Electronics" is a good option. They approach circuit design from a practical standpoint.
https://www.amazon.com/Art-Electronics-Paul-Horowitz/dp/0521809266/ref=dp_ob_title_bk
The Art of Electronics - The EE bible
ARRL Handbook - Great for analog and RF circuit knowledge, but tons of general stuff too.
How to Diagnose and Fix Everything Electronic - For hands on, real world circuit diagnosis. I've been doing this a long time and I still learned a lot from this book. This book will save you a lot of magic smoke.
Okay, you're definitely at the beginning. I'll clarify a few things and then recommend some resources.
I feel like I've gone off on a few tangents, but just ask for clarification if you want. I'd be happy to point you towards other resources.
If you really want to learn electronics I recommend the book "The Art of Electronics" (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Art-Electronics-Paul-Horowitz/dp/0521809266/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1456842742&sr=8-1&keywords=art+of+electronics)
I know it's a bit pricey but it's the most complete book i have read and also very easy to follow. It's magnitudes better than any school litterature I have used.
I still use it as a reference in my work as a electronics engineer.
Coax publications! Their books are decent, I wouldn't say the best, but decent. I'm 2/3rds the way through studying for my Advanced as well and I've found it very helpful. Nice thing with their books is access to a practice exam site that got me through my Basic Qualification exam.
Full disclosure I have a computer engineering degree and have a pretty strong background in electronics as well, so I'm able to fill in some gaps. I've found a couple of errors or gaps in the edition I'm studying from. So I'd possibly recommend some supplementary material. Good book for electronics if that's the area you're struggling with is The Art of Electronics by Horowitz and Hill: https://www.amazon.ca/Art-Electronics-Paul-Horowitz/dp/0521809266/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1542256671&sr=8-1&keywords=art+of+electronics
Beyond that study and good luck! I'm hoping to take my test early 2019. Been distracted with getting my HF station up and running.
OK, you seem like you are trying to learn, and are asking questions, that is a good thing, and even if someone cringes at your terms, that's OK, you have gotten some good links for the terms and how to use them. Don't be put off.
Now I am going to recommend you see if you can get The Art of Electronics 3rd ed and Learning The Art of Electronics, get the ones with the gold covers. They are expensive, but you will learn huge amounts by working through the Learning book. When I was teaching college labs, I would recommend students get these books (2nd ed at the time). You can find all this information online, and you can learn it that way, but these books are excellent and well worth the cost if you can pull it together.
It's difficult to tell without seeing it, but "Learning the Art of Electronics" looks like a book to accompany "The Art of Electronics". If you're a beginner, The Art of Electronics might be a bit overwhelming. My recommendation as an absolute starting point is Getting Started in Electronics by Forest M. Mimms. It's old and used to be sold at Tandy, but it gives a really quick and simply overview of the basics, and you can get the 3rd edition here for free:
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B5jcnBPSPWQyaTU1OW5NbVJQNW8/edit
If you're still interested after reading Getting Started, it's probably appropriate to move on to either The Art of Electronics http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Art-Electronics-Paul-Horowitz/dp/0521809266/ref=pd_bxgy_14_img_2?ie=UTF8&refRID=0H11CKC3J5KJMF8BHHA8
or the much cheaper Practical Electronics for Inventors (as mentioned elsewhere - 4th edition is out in April)
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Practical-Electronics-Inventors-Third-Scherz/dp/0071771336/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1452851192&sr=1-1&keywords=practical+electronics+for+inventors
$108 Pre-Order at Amazon.
I think it is dependent on the field. For several areas in experimental astronomy you deal with extremely large datasets. Advanced statistical methods and 'machine learning' can be very valuable tools. Whereas for someone studying solid state experiment this would be a waste of time. Better time would be spent on learning the physical hardware and electronics and noise (I think, never done solid state myself). Although you would be surprised, I knew someone who was using neural networks for a project involving solid state and transitions.
As a whole, compared with theorists, you may want to develop a better understanding of statistics, computing/programming, electronics, hardware, and several fields I'm not thinking of. However which of those are most applicable depends on the work you are doing. Although a solid foundation in statistics is most likely useful for all scientists.
To add a text, The Art of Electronics is practically an experimental bible for many people.
Changes in the 3rd edition.
$80 on Amazon.
http://www.allaboutcircuits.com/textbook/ This might be a good place to get started, I am taking a physics electronics advanced lab as an undergraduate in physics, and I have found this textbook to be pretty useful. Also Hororwitz's the art of electronics is probably the best text on electronics, however very dense (1200 pages). There is definately a lot to learn, and this is just getting you started in the electronics of it... idk specifically about tube amps though, but understand circuits is probably going to be a must
link to buy horowitz: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0521809266/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_dp_ss_1?pf_rd_p=1944687442&pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe-1&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_i=0521370957&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=0PSJGQA7WTQYDCZ7632X
Art of Electronics, Horowitz & Hill
Razavi -- Fundamentals of Microelectronics
http://www.amazon.com/Fundamentals-Microelectronics-Behzad-Razavi/dp/1118156323
I believe there are some books that aim to introduce electronics to guitarists and musicians. I found this one with a cursory search.
This is the only book you will ever need: https://www.amazon.com/Electronics-Guitarists-Denton-J-Dailey/dp/1461440866.
That depends on what you are trying to learn. For a general introduction to electronics, I would getting one of those assortment packs of resistors, another one of capacitors, and a handful of small signal transistors, both PNP and NPN types.
You'd probably also want a couple of small LEDs, an a few rectifier diodes.
One approach would be to start with a book like this that takes you step by step through building circuits on a breadboard. Look at the list of parts required for these circuits, and get those.
Book link here: http://www.amazon.com/Electronics-Ground-Up-Designing-Inventing-ebook/dp/B00O2A7H9G
Comes out Nov 7
This textbook is pretty good. There's a newer edition, but this one used is more reasonably priced. Great reviews on Amazon as well. You can check out the table of contents on the newer edition, this one is similar. I think it covers a solid amount of applications.
Franco - Design with Op Amps and Analog Integrated Circuits
It's a textbook, but its focus is teaching how to get to that intuitive feel you're looking for.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Integrated-Circuits-Electronics-Computer-Enginering/dp/0072524936/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1511563496&sr=8-1&keywords=razavi+analog
Yuuuuup, feeling the same way except i think i'd like to get more into the microcontroller/FPGA field of EE.
I ended up getting this book a while ago and it's actually been quite helpful in explaining things in a manageable and very equation-lite way. Definitely gonna need another source for more in-depth but for the basics it's quite good.
Something like this would also be good to have for reference.
Electrical Engineering 101: Everything You Should Have Learned in School...but Probably Didn't
If you want a head start I read this book before my first EE course it was a quick read and I really felt like I had a fundamental understanding of a lot of things before diving deep into theory and equations.
Electrical Engineering 101, Third Edition: Everything You Should Have Learned in School...but Probably Didn't https://www.amazon.com/dp/0123860016/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_3DUXAbWGQCWEK
It looks like you haven't run across 'dimensional analysis' yet. It's a really important engineering tool, and helps get calculations correct:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimensional_analysis
Have a look at this book:
http://www.amazon.com/Electrical-Engineering-101-Third-Edition/dp/0123860016
It has a short section on dimensional analysis.
As a reference book AofE is fine, but the one that really helped make everything "click" in my mind was Electrical Engineering 101 https://www.amazon.com/Electrical-Engineering-101-Everything-Probably/dp/0123860016
I highly recommend reading Electrical Engineering 101, Third Edition: Everything You Should Have Learned in School...but Probably Didn't. It covers many of the fundamentals, while not being to difficult for you to jump into.
This is an excellent book for such a study!
A great collection of essays on delta-sigma converters:
http://www.amazon.com/Delta-Sigma-Data-Converters-Theory-Simulation/dp/0780310454
Another great book to understand how delta-sigma converters work:
http://www.amazon.com/Understanding-Delta-Sigma-Converters-Richard-Schreier/dp/0471465852/
A collection of seminal papers on the subject:
http://www.amazon.com/Oversampling-Delta-Sigma-Data-Converters-Simulation/dp/0879422858
Totally not a smartass answer: https://www.amazon.com/Art-Electronics-Paul-Horowitz/dp/0521370957
This book taught me many amazing things.
http://www.amazon.com/Art-Electronics-Paul-Horowitz/dp/0521370957
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Art-Electronics-Paul-Horowitz/dp/0521370957
EE yes. If you can EE than you can program. Taking a few CS courses will teach you the finer points of programming. But if you want to play with hardware than EE is the way to go.
Between EE and CS, both types learn programming. Focus on EE if you are thrilled by hardware. Focus on CS if you love logic puzzles and high level abstractions. FYI EE pays more and you can always get a programming job with an EE. The reverse is not true.
(Although I have to say that most EE's I know are terrible programmers. But that doesn't seem to stop them.)
I think a book that would be perfect for you is
The Art of Electronics
. The first half is all basic electronics. Then it gets into logic circuits and finally simple computer circuits.
One nice thing about this book is that the chapters are very well organized. So if you don't want to learn everything there is to know about transistors, just read the first few pages of the transistor chapter and the move on.
I am a current EE student right now and saw you ask in another comment about book recommendations so I thought I would throw a few in:
You should probably throw in some electromagnetic and semiconductor physics for good measure as well.
Read The Art of Electronics. It's a pretty great book.
Been looking into this text, any idea on where I can grab/look for it for less than the terrifying amazon pricing?
Best two:
Last summer while on holiday I was laying on the poolside chairs (hiding from the intense midday sun, the sea/pools were empty around noon), reading The Art of Electronics. I had it on the foot side on my chair, laying on my stomach so you could see the book when going around.
The hotel staff was running around, giving out cold water, entertaining kids etc. One of them went by me, did a double take on the book (I was on some page with a lot of circuit diagrams, graphs, ... ), stopped and asked if he could have a look. I said sure, he picked it up, flipped through it, shook his head and went away without saying a word.
Not really sure what he though, but it certainly wasn't the standard beach reading material.
Glad to see you're approaching this from the correct angle. We get this sort of question here all the time, but it's usually "how do i electronics" and they get upset when they find out math is involved.
Definitely follow the math up through precalc, calculus, and differential equations. Learn Laplace transforms if you have time. You'll also want to explore physics pretty far, much of it will apply when you least expect it. Electronics is a mix of applied physics and chemistry. Finally you'll want to learn some thermodynamics. Understanding heat transfer and energy will be pretty useful. For all of these, I would just hunt down some college textbooks and some related Schaum's outlines.
While you're doing that, make sure to dabble in electronics to keep you focused. Build up some assembly, soldering, and possibly circuit layout skill. Definitely find this book: http://www.amazon.com/The-Art-Electronics-Paul-Horowitz/dp/0521370957
The Art of Electronics is $20 on amazon if you get it used. It's quite a price break from new.
http://www.amazon.com/The-Art-Electronics-Paul-Horowitz/dp/0521370957
Otherwise as the others have said, broken projects happen often. You'll get more help of you're asking for help on a specific project with photos.
http://www.amazon.com/The-Art-Electronics-Paul-Horowitz/dp/0521370957
This is a good practical book made for the beginner:
https://www.amazon.com/Practical-Electronics-Inventors-Third-Scherz/dp/0071771336
This is the "bible":
https://www.amazon.com/Art-Electronics-Paul-Horowitz/dp/0521370957
jel se možda može naći ovo ?
https://www.amazon.com/Art-Electronics-Paul-Horowitz/dp/0521370957
:)
The Art of Electronics is a fun book.
This looks like a good book
http://www.amazon.com/MAKE-Electronics-Learning-Through-Discovery/dp/0596153740/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1279769926&sr=8-3
This IS a good book but deals with advanced theories.
http://www.amazon.com/Art-Electronics-Paul-Horowitz/dp/0521370957/ref=sr_1_16?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1279769926&sr=8-16
And this looks pretty good.
http://www.amazon.com/Circuitbuilding-Yourself-Dummies-Ward-Silver/dp/0470173424/ref=sr_1_21?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1279769941&sr=8-21
Go to the book store, pick up some books. Go the the library and see what they have. Pick up old radios and junk off of the street take them home and pull them apart but be careful of the capacitors, if you dont know what a capacitor is then read one of the above books.
Look on craigslist for free electronics and start taking them apart. Be careful of anything that uses Alternating current, anything that plugs into a wall deals with large voltages so be sure to start small.
An op amp is a differential amplifier with an enormous gain, something along the lines of 10^(6)
This causes some interesting things, for instance, with input voltages above, say 1/1000 of a volt, it will act as a comparator, the largest voltage immediately sending the input high or low.
Because of this high gain, it is easy to construct a circuit for an amplifier that is determined by the ratio of two resistors alone, the gain disappearing entirely from the equations.
Op amps can also be used to add DC bias to a signal.
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These are some useful resources
How to bias an Op Amp (MIT)
The Art of Electronics by Paul Horowitz (worth every penny)
Khan Academy's course on the subject
The Art of Electronics is the one essential electronics textbook. The microprocessor stuff is sadly dated, but OTOH, nobody has written a better book for understanding transistors and op-amps. If $100 is too steep, shop around for a paperback international student edition.
https://www.amazon.com/Art-Electronics-Paul-Horowitz/dp/0521370957
The Art of Electronics Student Manual is a good reference
"The Art of Electronics" is widely considered the the single most authoritative book for electronics. There is a companion book "The Art of Electronics Student Manual" that may also prove very useful to you. If you don't have any experience building circuits yet check out this video from EEVBlog "How to setup an Electronics Lab for $300". The easiest way to learn is to learn by doing.
If you haven't started playing with electronics yet, get started you will be glad you did. Never stop learning.
For electronics, go with The Art of Electronics. Great reviews, very engaging read.
I would recommend the Art of Electronics (or the ARRL Handbook) if you are looking for more of a reference style text. Very thorough, but not something you would want to read front to back.
Assuming you have your circuits basics down, a good text to really start learning how to design circuits would be Microelectronic Circuits by Sedra and Smith which is your undergrad text on introductory analog/digital circuits. This one you can definitely read front to back (but it's big). And then if you really want to get into the thick of things, you could read Analysis and Design of Analog Integrated Circuits AKA Grey and Meyer which is your advanced undergrad/graduate text on analog circuits. There are many alternatives to these texts, but these ones are basically bibles.
https://www.amazon.com/Art-Electronics-Paul-Horowitz/dp/0521809266/ref=dp_ob_title_bk
buy it
read it
love it
This book is a bit spendy but there is nothing better for the hobbyist. It is the Holy Bible of hobby electronics.
Khan Academy also has a course on Electrical Engineering, but I've not looked at it terribly closely. They generally do a good job at whatever they decide to include though.
If you want the one book to rule them all, I still stand by: https://www.amazon.com/Art-Electronics-Paul-Horowitz/dp/0521809266
Pricey, but it's a classic.
No, I don't, it was just the best ASIC textbook from when I was in grad school. It really helped me understand how transistors work. If you want a good book on discrete components I would recommend The art of electronics. It is written more as a practical guide, with part suggestions for op amps and filters. Like it compares and contrasts different discrete components and will give you suggestions for what op amp to use for different applications. 10/10, would buy again.
https://www.amazon.com/Art-Electronics-Paul-Horowitz/dp/0521809266/
https://www.amazon.com/Practical-Electronics-Inventors-Fourth-Scherz/dp/1259587541/
I dig it, good work. To help sort out some of the necessary fundamentals, I recommend you pick up a copy of The Art of Electronics by Horowitz and Hill - 3rd edition. This is a staple for anyone that does anything with electronics. A couple of reads through the first handful of chapters and you'll have a good understanding what a bipolar-junction or field-effect transistor is, what a capacitor is, and how a capacitor and frequency relate to one another - and a whole bunch of other stuff too.
Year supply of hot beverage and then you just open the front cover:
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Is [this] (https://www.amazon.com/dp/0521809266/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_1FnRybW1CCK94) the book you're taking about? It sounds like that is exactly what I was looking for! Thanks a lot ☺️
Honestly, the Art of Electronics. There's nothing particularly special about audio on the electronics front. It's just electronics where you care about noise a bit more than average.
I'll sketch you through some important steps, but there's seriously a lot of material here for this kind of approach. Its impractical that I'd hold your hand through the whole process.
The core of the design are the external DACs, so you need to read the datasheet.
This particular chip uses the SPI bus. In general, a bus is a way to communicate with many devices using fewer wires. SPI itself has multiple variants, this is the SPI Daisy Chain variant, which requires 3-pins to communicate with all devices. Page 17 of the documentation has an example.
Wikipedia has another example of how to hook up Although notice: the DAC088S085 does NOT have slave-select pins. So its a bit different than the Wikipedia example. There's also a SYNC pin, which is important for "frames". Basically, you send the SYNC pin low when you're done shifting the data (once you count 64 bits out)
Now SPI just describes how to get the bits to the DAC088S085. It doesn't actually tell you anything beyond that. You need to read the documentation (page 18 and 19). You can see that each DAC088S085 takes a 16-bit command, so if you have four of them... the SPI shift-register would essentially be 64-bits long.
In any case, you need to send 16-bits per DAC multiple times to set each of the individual DACs. So for example, if you wanted to set the 5th DAC on the first chip to 75%, you'd need to shift out: 0x5C00xxxxyyyyzzzz (where xxxx, yyyy, and zzzz are some command for the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th chip, due to Daisy Chaining).
If you wanted the 10th DAC on the 3rd chip to 25%, you'd need to shift out: 0xwwwwxxxxA400yyyyzzzz (where wwww, yyyy, and zzzz are some command for the 1st, 2nd, and 4th chip, due to Daisy Chaining).
A "full" example, would be if I set the 1st chip 3rd DAC to 25%, the 2nd chip's 8th DAC to 50%, the 3rd chip's 12th DAC to 75%, and the 4th Chip's 1st DAC to 100%: 0x34008800CC001FF0.
To set all 32 DACs to a specific value would require 8 commands like that to be sent through the bus.
As you can see, the problem with a "bus" is that it requires more complicated software to handle. That's the tradeoff: fewer pins, but more complicated to program. In any case, read page 18 and 19 until you understand the numbers above. You can't just talk with the DAC immediately, you need to "think" how to shift the data into the correct DAC. Furthermore, each DAC chip controls eight different internal DACs. To set each DAC requires you to understand the communication protocol, which is described on page 18 and 19.
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The DAC088S085 looks like it also requires an external voltage reference.
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Now, to answer your question about OpAmps, here's a tutorial on the Inverting Amplifier. Once you understand that, go read page 21 of the documentation. As I described in another post, OpAmp design is a 3rd year subject for electrical engineers.
You'll have to understand the concept of negative feedback to really understand why the OpAmp circuit works. Chapter 4 of "The Art of Electronics" is an excellent chapter on OpAmps. Although... the discussion of negative feedback is in Chapter 2. But yeah, read Chapter 2 to understand negative feedback, Chapter 4 to understand the basics of OpAmps. (Chapter 5 for precision use of OpAmps)
And no, I'm not going to teach you OpAmps. But there's plenty of OpAmp material in print. If you don't feel like spending money... go to a library. Most online tutorials are inadequate IMO compared to a good textbook.
While you're at it, read chapter 2 and 3 to study up on some basic transistor designs. I'm gonna bet that your circuit will require a transistor amplifier or two scattered about.
Art of Electronics is pretty comprehensive. Also the unofficial bible for electrical engineers
https://www.amazon.com/The-Art-Electronics-Paul-Horowitz/dp/0521809266?&linkCode=wey&tag=maggicom0e-20
The Art of Electronics is the best all-in-one resource for practical discrete electronics. Add individual device data sheets and plenty of Digikey/Mouser searches with filters and you'll start to get a good feel for general availability of components.
There is a book called The Art of Electronics, 3rd Edition. Get that and also its separately sold Lab book.
https://www.amazon.com/Art-Electronics-Paul-Horowitz/dp/0521809266
The book might fulfill your needs.
In that case, I bet you'll want to take the custom route. Have a pair custom made for yourself and you'll never go back to the generic ones. Here are a few resources to get started. [1], [2], [3], [4], [5].
110 dollars on amazon
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This Book is like the bible for basic electrical engineering topics.
It is a text book, so it's less of a "I'd really like it if someone could just give me all the infos on the electronics" and more of a dense technical reference.
I picked up a UV-82HP from Prime Day but my real catches were Gordo's Extra Class study guide, Carr's Practical Antenna Handbook, and H/H's Art of Electronics.
Here's to spending the rest of my summer in a book.
Someone posted a great BLDC paper a week ago I'm still using. http://www.amazon.com/Circuit-Designers-Companion-Edition-Engineers/dp/0750663707 is indispensable. Xilinx, Atmel, and LT parts manuals and app-notes. I use Switching power supply design by Pressman, but your pdf looks better. Also http://www.hottconsultants.com/techtips/decoupling.html , http://www.analog.com/static/imported-files/seminars_webcasts/High%20Speed%20System%20Applications%20%28PDF%29/HS%20Systems%20Part%204%20for%20Print_A.pdf, though I haven't used that in years (moved away from hs stuff lately).
Schaums when I fall over, and The Art and Science of Analog Circuit Design when things get heavyish. When it comes to wireless stuff it's mostly stuff like wikipedia so I can remember how to do the encoding systems, too many for me to remember more than QAM and PSK offhand easily, the rest just exist in my brain as "other".
The Synopsys book club has a list of EE/CS books that are either the clear standouts in their topic area or at the very least a good presentation of the material.
Two less theoretical books you might also be interested in, depending on what you are looking for:
The Circuit Designer's Companion by Tim Williams is a good overview of the practical aspects of turning a schematic into a working circuit. Grounding, how to choose the right type of cap/resistor/inductor, EMC, etc.
Practical Electronics for Inventors by Paul Scherz is similar to the Art of Electronics but is written at a more introductory level. It includes a lot of the important small details that either aren't covered in EE coursework or tend to get muddled in the slog through theory and are therefore easy to forget.
Best way to get back into EE stuff is to build some projects! Hackaday and EEVBlog are your friends, as are Sparkfun, Futurlec, and Digikey.
Johnson's High Speed Digital Design has a few chapters on power planes and multi-layer stackups, as well as being a good overall reference. The Circuit Designer's Companion is another popular book that covers PCB design techniques as well as several other electronics basics.
The best way to learn is to have your designs reviewed by experienced engineers; but if you're asking here I'm guessing you are doing this as a hobbyist. Maybe post your designs on some EE forums for review?
Also knowing 'how' is not as useful as 'why', ECAD tools generally are different enough that the specifics of how to accomplish something are not the same. Which tool do you use? Most have online user groups or forums for specific questions.
If you're looking for a broad practical book, this might be of use.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0750663707/
edit: Corrected
Fundamental of microelectronics
I'd recommend between this book and Sedra & Smith's book. But, Razavi's book might be easier to understand.
https://www.amazon.com/Electronics-Guitarists-Denton-J-Dailey/dp/1461440866/
i have it, but i'm too dumb to really understand and make use of it :(
Edit: you might wanna check out http://www.electrosmash.com/ as well
This is a pretty good resource: http://www.amazon.com/Electronics-Guitarists-Denton-J-Dailey/dp/1461440866/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1458918341&sr=8-1&keywords=electronics+for+guitarists
My wall of text posts about asking for help will show that I'm still not an expert but the first book that really got me going was Electronics for Guitarists ( http://www.amazon.ca/Electronics-Guitarists-Denton-J-Dailey/dp/1461440866 )
It's not free unfortunately but it's the first book that I found delved at a good level into electronics but always from the perspective of a guitarist instead of an EE student. I do believe that learning something, especially something as complex as electronics, is much easier when in the right context, which for us, is guitar effects and amplification.
You won't find cookie-cutter recipies but you will find a lot of very simple circuits and their analysis and explanation. Also, the math is not required and you can skip it, but it's in there if you want it which I think is a good thing.
I think you can read a bit of chapter one about power supplies on Amazon. Take a look!
http://www.amazon.com/Electrical-Engineering-101-Everything-Probably-ebook/dp/B005I49M6G
https://www.amazon.com/Basic-Electric-Circuit-Theory-One-Semester-ebook/dp/B00FDU4XTG
I actually had the book with me but unfortunately I discarded it during my move-out last week...
If you can't find a free e-version, I would say just find another circuit textbook. Since you have only one month and probably won't spend all of your time on this, I would suggest going over chapters on KCL, KVL, Node analysis, Mesh Analysis. If there's still time left, you can look at the chapter of phasor, AC circuit and learn some basic complex number algebra.
If you are interested in buying the set,
http://www.amazon.com/The-Art-Electronics-Paul-Horowitz/dp/0521809266/ref=pd_bxgy_14_img_2?ie=UTF8&refRID=14NGF7FFK7YMCE5X9HFC
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about $170 for the set
http://www.amazon.ca/The-Art-Electronics-Paul-Horowitz/dp/0521370957
Oh? First year EE student? That's cute. Go buy a copy of this book right now, and don't wait 'til after completing a BS to brush over important concepts. This was singlehandedly more comprehensive than most of my individual courses.