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

Television

• Analog television
• History of television
• Television show
• Television broadcaster
• Timeline of the introduction of television in countries
• Mechanical television
• Color television
• Digital television
• Digital television transition
• Smart television
• Streaming television
• Internet Protocol television
• 3D television
• Terrestrial television

Television broadcasting

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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