Outline of electronics
Overview of and topical guide to electronics
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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)
- Digital-to-analog converters (DAC)
- Digital potentiometer
- Binary weighted resistor converter
- Charge distribution DAC
- Pulse width modulator
- Reconstruction filter
- The R2R ladder
Digital electronics
Electrical element/discretes
- Passive elements:
- Active elements:
- Other components
- Aural devices
- Battery (electricity)
- Crystal oscillator
- Electromechanical devices
- Sensors
- Surface acoustic wave (SAW)
Electronics analysis
Electronic circuits
Electronic equipment
Television
- Analog television
- History of television
- Television show
- Television broadcaster
- Timeline of the introduction of television in countries
- Mechanical television
- Color television
- Digital television
- 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
Optoelectronics
- Optical fiber
- Optical properties
- Optical receivers
- Optical system design
- Optical transmitters
Physical laws
Power electronics
- Power Devices
- Gate turn-off thyristor
- MOS-controlled thyristor (MCT)
- Power BJT/MOSFET
- Static induction devices
- Electric power conversion
- DC to DC
- AC to DC
- Rectifier
- Mains power supply unit (PSU)
- Switched-mode power supply
- DC to AC
- AC to AC
- 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
