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Re: Learn electronics by practice

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Post by teleforce »

Please check this book by Ex-Google, Cisco, Sun engineer and adjunct professor of UC Berkeley,Ed Lipiansky on electronics fundamentals (analog and digital):

Electrical, Electronics, and Digital Hardware Essentials for Scientists and Engineers:

https://www.wiley.com/en-us/Electrical,+Electronics,+and+Dig...

Re: Learn electronics by practice

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Post by tiedieconderoga »

max_ wrote: post #3
fabatka wrote: post #2

FWIW, it's digital electronics

What other kinds of "electronics" are there?

"Digital electronics" communicate using discrete values, 1s and 0s.

"Analog electronics" communicate using voltage/current/temperature/etc levels.

One of the simplest examples is a voltage divider: if you put two resistors across a DC voltage source, like this:

    V+-[R1]-¢-[R2]-GND
The voltage at the ¢ point will be:

    V+ * (R2 / (R1 + R2))
There are infinite possible values for that voltage, depending on the voltage source and the two resistors. It cannot necessarily be expressed exactly in a digital circuit, and it will fluctuate over time as the environment changes in temperature, humidity, EM noise, and so on.

I usually recommend The Art of Electronics as a well-written, beginner-friendly textbook which covers the basic concepts.

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Post by agnosticmantis »

teleforce wrote: post #12

Please check this book by Ex-Google, Cisco, Sun engineer and adjunct professor of UC Berkeley,Ed Lipiansky on electronics fundamentals (analog and digital): Electrical, Electronics, and Digital Hardware Essentials for Scientists and Engineers: https://www.wiley.com/en-us/Electrical,+Electronics,+and+Dig...

Thanks for sharing! Does this teach one how to design circuits too?

Also, someone suggested ‘basic electronics: theory and practice’ by Westcott & Westcott [0] for learning hobby electronics. Could someone familiar with both explain how they compare?

0: https://books.google.com/books/about/Basic_Electronics.html?...

Re: Learn electronics by practice

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Post by anthk »

dktnj wrote: post #9
max_ wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What other kinds of "electronics" are there?

Probably the wrong way to look at it. Digital electronics doesn't really exist outside of theoretical spaces. It's all analogue underneath and any experienced digital designer will know that and what the consequences for things like signal integrity, noise immunity and latency.

This. Digital is not that "discrete" as it looks, but just a threshold of values. FFT works on this pretty well, it's the basics.

Re: Learn electronics by practice

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Post by tonmoy »

dktnj wrote: post #9
max_ wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What other kinds of "electronics" are there?

Probably the wrong way to look at it. Digital electronics doesn't really exist outside of theoretical spaces. It's all analogue underneath and any experienced digital designer will know that and what the consequences for things like signal integrity, noise immunity and latency.

It’s all about layers of abstraction. A web developer doesn’t need to know about analog circuits to program computers

Re: Learn electronics by practice

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Post by mindcrime »

max_ wrote: post #3
fabatka wrote: post #2

FWIW, it's digital electronics

What other kinds of "electronics" are there?

Classifications are messy, but in addition to the other items mentioned already, I would say that some people would break out "power electronics"[1] as its own field.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_electronics

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