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

Advanced topics

History of electronics

General concepts

Data converters

Analog-to-digital converters (ADC)
- Aliasing
- Successive approximation ADC
- Dual-slope ADC
- Quantization
- Sensor resolution
- Sampling
- Sigma–delta 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

Electronic equipment

Electronic instrumentation

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

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

gollark: Ah, an email from dragcave. Apparently I have "by my own admission on the forums, done the exact same thing that got EATW banned from the API", whatever that was, oh well.

gollark: I have no clue why, but there appear to be no dragons stored.

gollark: It would error if it had usually, but due to internal thingumms it did not.

gollark: I assume the database crashed somehow.

gollark: I'll check soon.

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