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Contents:
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... Soldering
... IC
manufacturing ...
Digital
(Basic) ... Digital
(Microprocessors) ... 555 timer
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Note: Many web sites listed on
the other links pages also include
tutorials -- it is sometimes hard to differentiate between a reference
page and a tutorial. Also many tutorials cross over the boundaries of
the subjects listed below.
General
Information:
- Chipcenter: http://www.chipcenter.com
A wide variety of information, discussions, tips, applications.
- Educator's
Corner/Future Engineers: Students go to: http://www.futureengineers.com;
Teachers go to: http://www.EducatorsCorner.com
- Agilent
Technologies (formerly
Hewlett Packard Instrumentation) offers
hundreds of
Web pages such as interactive lab experiments, free software, tutorials
and
access to online publications. They offer engineering educators and
students
free access to these tools to "help them meet their challenges of
limited
time, budget and resources."
- Study Web: http://www.studyweb.com/Technology/tocengin.htm
An annotated list of links to all sorts of subjects from Antennas
to Vutrax Electronics CAD. Includes lots of tutorials and information
- TechOnLine: http://www.techonline.com
Tutorials; lectures (some free, some paid); on many subjects
- How Things Work/How Stuff
Works: http://www.howstuffworks.com/category-science.htm
You name it, they've got it; at a level designed for the general
student. Various specific tutorials are listed by subject in the
sections below.
- Tutorialfind.com: http://www.tutorialfind.com
-- SITE NOT CURRENTLY WORKING
A listing of tutorials and a search engine to find them for you.
AC and DC Circuits,
Diodes and Transistors (Analog
Subjects) -- Also Soldering, Schematics, and Color Codes
- How Things Work/How Stuff
Works: at a very basic level:
- Electronics Express Tips
page: http://www.elexp.com/tips.htm
a lot of practical information on many subjects: Choosing Components,
Contact Bounce and De-Bouncing, Making Electrical Measurements, RS-232
Interface, Reading Transistor Markings, Commonly Used Acronyms,
Capacitor Code Guide, EIA Standard Values Table, Film Resistor Charts
5% and 1%, Finding
resistor values for any given ratio, and even some experiments.
- Electronics
Information Website: http://www.aaroncake.net/electronics/index.html
Several interesting sections:
- Electronic Circuits
- Schematic Symbol
Reference
- How To Solder
- How To Desolder
- Building Tips
- Electronics Calculators
(calculate series, parallel, LED
resistors, more)
- Electronics Software
- IEEE Virtual Museum, Socket
to Me!: How Electricity Came to Be: http://www.ieee-virtual-museum.org/exhibit/exhibit.php?id=159249&lid=1
"A brief history of electricity and its applications, this introductory
exhibit provides a broad perspective on the history and social impact
of electricity, electronics, and computers." Other brief exhibits on
transistors and Integrated Circuits are also available.
- Play Hookey: http://www.play-hookey.com/
"While you're out of the
classroom, there's no reason why you can't
learn a little something and enjoy yourself while you're doing it.
That's
the basic purpose of this site."
all sorts of topics, some with virtual experiments. Operational
Amplifiers and Analog
Computers.; Electronic Theory: Direct
Current.; Take a look at optics; What's inside these
semiconductors?
- VK2TIP electronics tutorial
home page:
http://www.electronics-tutorials.com/basics/basic-electronics.htm
basic electronics followed
by some radio electronics
terminology. Then electron theory and atoms, attenuators, capacitance,
current, digital basics, impedance, inductance, integrated circuits,
ohms law, power supply, Q, reactance, resistance, resonance,
transformers, transistors and voltage.
- University of Guelph
Tutorials: DC Circuits Tutorials: http://www.physics.uoguelph.ca/tutorials/ohm/index.html
includes ohms law, series, parallel, etc. (Part of their physics
tutorials.)
- University of Texas at
Austin DC Circuits tutorial: http://ficp.engr.utexas.edu/rgd1/index.cfm
a well done set of interactive tutorials which
include: Ohm's Law, Power and Energy, Kirchoff's Laws, Series and
Parallel, Nodal and Mesh Analysis, Superposition, and Thevenin and
Norton.
- A good resistor color code
tutorial, including a calculator: http://webhome.idirect.com/~jadams/electronics/resistor_codes.htm
Integrated
Circuit and Semiconductor manufacturing
Subjects
- Integrated
Circuit Manufacturing Information:
- Nanotechnology
(MEMs) information:
Digital
-- Basic (ELT-214/215, TCT-144 and
TNY-174) Subjects
Digital
- Microprocessor (ELT 310 & TNY 275)
Subjects
- Intel The
Journey InsideSM
:http://www.intel.com/education/journey/index.htm.
Journey InsideSM
is an interactive tutorial divided into the following six sections:
- Introduction
to Computers : This section
provides short history of the computer, introduces the
four major components of a computer, and compares computer "brains"
with the human brain.
- Circuits
and Switches : This section
teaches students about electricity,
electric circuits, and
the difference between mechanical and non-mechanical (transistors)
switches.
- Digital
Information : This section
explores the differences between the decimal and binary number systems
and how the information is represented and
processed using binary code.
- Microprocessors
: This section investigates how microprocessors process information,
demonstrates the size and the complexity of their circuitry, and
explains how they are manufactured.
- The
Internet: This
section defines the Internet, then goes on to explain the World Wide
Web, hypertext, URLs, packets, bandwidth, connection choices, search
engines, and the need to critically evaluate the quality of the
information found on the Web.
- Technology
and Society : This section
discusses the impact technological
advances have on
people's lives, with examples from the past and current day. Numerous
side stories provide insights on ways the digital age is already
affecting our lives. The final section talks about the accelerating
rate of change and what we might expect to see in the near future.
- Intel Museum short
discussions on various
integrated circuit
related subjects:
- How Things Work/How Stuff
Works:
How Microprocessors Work:
http://www.howstuffworks.com/microprocessor.htm
- Micron
Semiconductor: http://www.micron.com/k12/semiconductors/hrw.html
A nice interactive look at
how RAM works along with a lot of
details about it is fabricated and assembled
- The Central Processing Unit
(CPU): http://www.geocities.com/cfleri/contents.html
a nice tutorial on how a microprocessor works in a PC system
Telecommunications
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