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Re: A Summary of Electronics

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Post by rramadass »

mbrodersen wrote: post #39

I have a CS background and are interested in learning more about electronics. Is there a good beginners tool I can use to accurately simulate electronic diagrams and learn from?

Digilent (now part of National Instruments) has some good HW and SW (with accompanying tutorials) for students.

* HW - Analog Discovery 2 or Analog Discovery Studio - https://digilent.com/shop/test-and-measurement-equipment/usb...

* SW - Multisim - https://digilent.com/shop/ni-multisim-student-edition-circui...

* Tutorials - https://learn.digilentinc.com/

Re: A Summary of Electronics

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Post by aaronleather »

Electronics is the branch of technology that deals with the use of components to control the flow of electricity. Most of electronic components are made of semi-conductors. Electronic circuit is a closed conducting path through which an electric current either intend to flow or flows.

Re: A Summary of Electronics

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Post by teleforce »

For beginner I'd highly recommend this new book by Jonathan Bartlett, Electronics for Beginners: A Practical Introduction to Schematics, Circuits, and Microcontrollers:

https://www.apress.com/gp/book/9781484259788

The book comprehensively covers the fundamentals of analog and digital electronics including the basic of amplifier topic that most of the electronics for beginners books ignored.

For electronics workbench typically you would have signal generator, oscilloscope, multimeter and power supply that can cost you some good money and they're not that integrated and programmable. For that I'd recommend this new many-in-one tool from Digilent namely Analog Discovery Pro that is better integrated and can be easily programmable:

https://digilent.com/blog/the-creation-of-the-analog-discove...

This new tool can perform many functionalities for testing and measurement purposes that are crucial for successful circuit design, analog or digital.

Together with the book and Analog Discovery Pro tool, you'll be loaded for the bear in your electronics adventure.

Re: A Summary of Electronics

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Post by runnerup »

mbrodersen wrote: post #39

I have a CS background and are interested in learning more about electronics. Is there a good beginners tool I can use to accurately simulate electronic diagrams and learn from?

This tool helped me a lot over the past decade, and I still jump to it for simple circuit simulation at work (I do embedded firmware development, but lots and lots of oscilloscope/multimeter/logic analyzer use to troubleshoot and validate)

https://www.falstad.com/circuit/

This tool is fast enough to whip things up during a troubleshooting session alongside Electrical Engineers, and thorough "enough" to be used as a reasonable reference by the Electrical Engineers.

Re: A Summary of Electronics

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Post by mbrodersen »

runnerup wrote: post #45
mbrodersen wrote: post #39

I have a CS background and are interested in learning more about electronics. Is there a good beginners tool I can use to accurately simulate electronic diagrams and learn from?

This tool helped me a lot over the past decade, and I still jump to it for simple circuit simulation at work (I do embedded firmware development, but lots and lots of oscilloscope/multimeter/logic analyzer use to troubleshoot and validate) https://www.falstad.com/circuit/ This tool is fast enough to whip things up during a troubleshooting session alongside Electrical Engineers, and thorough "enough" to be used as a r…

Thanks! I will check it out.

Re: A Summary of Electronics

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Post by mbrodersen »

rramadass wrote: post #41
mbrodersen wrote: post #39

I have a CS background and are interested in learning more about electronics. Is there a good beginners tool I can use to accurately simulate electronic diagrams and learn from?

Digilent (now part of National Instruments) has some good HW and SW (with accompanying tutorials) for students. * HW - Analog Discovery 2 or Analog Discovery Studio - https://digilent.com/shop/test-and-measurement-equipment/usb... * SW - Multisim - https://digilent.com/shop/ni-multisim-student-edition-circui... * Tutorials - https://learn.digilentinc.com/

Thanks. Much appreciated.

Re: A Summary of Electronics

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Post by rramadass »

mbrodersen wrote: post #47
rramadass wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Digilent (now part of National Instruments) has some good HW and SW (with accompanying tutorials) for students. * HW - Analog Discovery 2 or Analog Discovery Studio - https://digilent.com/shop/test-and-measurement-equipment/usb... * SW - Multisim - https://digilent.com/shop/ni-multisim-student-edition-circui... * Tutorials - https://learn.digilentinc.com/

Thanks. Much appreciated.

The Analog Discovery 2 + Digital Discovery from Digilent will give you everything. They are small, easy to carry and the Waveforms software interface is pretty good.

You might also want to take a look at;

* RedPitaya STEMLab - https://redpitaya.com/

* Saleae - https://www.saleae.com/

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