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What 'Essentials' Electronics Topic would you like to Learn More About?

jwatson over 9 years ago

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dougw over 9 years ago +12

sensors and signal conditioning
gadget.iom over 9 years ago +11

A topic around micro-controllers might be useful.
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gsgill112 over 7 years ago

I would like to learn more about, Power Electronics and Analog electronics in implementation form.

Moreover , Few Most commonly used circuits like Smit Trigger, Etc can be covered, Which I think would be extremely useful .

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gsgill112 over 7 years ago

I would like to learn more about, Power Electronics and Analog electronics in implementation form.

Moreover , Few Most commonly used circuits like Smit Trigger, Etc can be covered, Which I think would be extremely useful .

Regards,
GS GILL
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COMPACT over 7 years ago in reply to gsgill112

I assume you mean Schmitt trigger.
This is a comparator with hysteresis inputs for noise rejection.

Here is a great article about them.
http://www.ti.com/lit/an/scea046/scea046.pdf

https://www.google.com.au/search?q=schmitt+trigger&rls=com.microsoft:en-AU:IE-Address&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sourceid=ie7&rlz=1I7ADRA_en&gfe_rd=cr&dcr=0&ei=ywNKWp_zD8Tr8Af-1KywDA&gws_rd=ssl
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gsgill112 over 7 years ago in reply to COMPACT

sorry for the Spelling, Yes I meant Schmitt Trigger,

What I meant was that there are numerous Such Circuits in Analog , Power and Digital Domain which are standards that can be found in electronics. In fact Many of the Hardware equipments implements them in pretty standard way.

An Essentials article with the following,
Their Circuits, Basics and Implementation strategies, i.e. where are they applicable, how to use them, benefits, standard IC to perform the tasks, etc, would be an Awesome Tutorial.

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GS Gill
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michaelkellett over 7 years ago in reply to gsgill112

The problem with your suggestion is that whilst it would be useful the "Essentials " format is for a very short article followed by a multiple choice questions. The best source I can think of to answer your purpose is the "Art of Electronics" 3rd edition by Horowitz and Hill. (About 1200 pages and not free).

You could do an essentials on, for example, Schmitt triggers - for starters there is a Wiki article :

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schmitt_trigger

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