Outline of electronics
(Redirected from List of basic electronics topics)
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
[edit]Classical electronics
[edit]Advanced topics
[edit]History of electronics
[edit]General concepts
[edit]Data converters
[edit]Digital electronics
[edit]Electrical element/discretes
[edit]- Passive elements:
- Active elements:
- Other components
- Aural devices
- Battery (electricity)
- Crystal oscillator
- Electromechanical devices
- Sensors
- Surface acoustic wave (SAW)
Electronics analysis
[edit]Electronic circuits
[edit]Electronic equipment
[edit]Television
[edit]- 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
[edit]Electronic instrumentation
[edit]- 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
[edit]- Flash memory
- Hard drive systems
- Optical storage
- Probe Storage
- Programmable read-only memory
- Read-only memory
- Solid-state drive (SSD)
- Volatile memory
Microcontrollers
[edit]- 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
[edit]- Optical fiber
- Optical properties
- Optical receivers
- Optical system design
- Optical transmitters
Physical laws
[edit]Power electronics
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
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References
[edit]External links
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Electronics at Wikipedia's sister projects
Definitions from Wiktionary
Media from Commons
Quotations from Wikiquote
Texts from Wikisource
Textbooks from Wikibooks
Resources from Wikiversity
