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

Digital electronics

Electrical element/discretes

Passive elements:
- Capacitor
- Inductor
- Memristor
- Resistor
- Transformer
Active elements:
- Diode
- 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 circuits

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:

Optoelectronics

Optical fiber
Optical properties
Optical receivers
Optical system design
Optical transmitters

Semiconductors theory

Applications

References

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