Features

• Clear and concise explanations
• Difficult concepts are explained in simple terms
• Illustrated with graphs and diagrams
• Search for the words or phrases
• Access the guide anytime, anywhere - at home, on the train, in the subway.
• Use your down time to prepare for an exam.
• Always have the guide available for a quick reference.
• Automatic synchronization between the handheld and the desktop PC. You could read half of the book on the handheld, then finish reading on the desktop. Annotations and drawings are also synchronized.
• Includes tables of symbols, electronic components identification, and many more

Table of Contents

i. Introduction: Foreword | Symbols used in Electronics

ii. Signal Transforms: Fourier analysis | Fourier series | Fourier transform | Discrete Fourier transform | A derivation of the discrete Fourier transform | Discrete-time Fourier transform | Gibbs phenomenon | Laplace transform | Two-sided Laplace transform | Z-transform | Transfer function

I. Electronic components: Identification | Passive components | Active solid-state components: Diodes | Transistors | Power Supplies | Active thermionic components | Display devices | Electromechanical sensors and actuators | Thermoelectric devices | Photoelectric devices | Antennas | Interconnecting electronic components

II. Analog Circuits: Circuit Analysis | Analysis of Resistive Circuits | AC Circuits | Benefits and Design | Amplifiers | Switching amplifiers | Oscillators | Modulation Methods | Filter Design

III. Digital Circuits: Integrated Circuit | Elements of Digital Circuits | Computer Architecture | Analog-to-Digital and Digital-to-Analog Converters

I. Electronic Components

Passive components: Fuse | Capacitors | Inductors | Magnetic amplifier | Crystal Oscillator | Polyswitch | Resistors | Varistor | Transformer | Switch

Active solid-state components: Semiconductor devices | Semiconductor materials | Diodes | Transistors | DIAC - Diode for Alternating Current | TRIAC - TRIode for Alternating Current | Power Supplies | Frequency changer

Active thermionic components: Vacuum tube | Cathode ray tube | Klystron | Magnetron

Display devices: Cathode ray tube | Liquid crystal display | Light-emitting diode | Nixie tube

Electromechanical sensors and actuators: Microphone | Loudspeaker | Strain gauge | Switch

Thermoelectric devices: Thermoelectric effect | Thermistor | Thermocouple | Thermopile | Peltier cooler

Photoelectric devices: Photomultiplier tube | Light-dependent resistor | Photodiode | Photovoltaic cell (solar cell)

Antennas | Radio antenna | Elemental dipole | Biconical | Yagi | Log-periodic antenna | Phased array | Magnetic dipole (loop) | Parabolic dish | Feedhorn | Waveguide

Interconnecting electronic components: Electrical connectors, plugs and sockets | Printed circuit boards | Point-to-point construction | Wire-wrap | Breadboard

II. Analog Circuits

Circuit Analysis: Introduction | Symbols used in Electronics | Kirchhoff's current law | Ohm's Law | Circuit diagram | Charge and Coulomb's Law | Coulomb's Law | Cell | DC Voltage and Current | Nodal Analysis | Mesh Analysis | Thevenin and Norton Equivalents | Norton's Theorem | Thévenin's Theorem | Superposition | DC Circuit Analysis | Noise in electronic circuits | Diagnostic Equipment | SPICE (Simulation Program with Integrated Circuit Emphasis)

Analysis of Resistive Circuits: Series and parallel circuits | Wheatstone bridge | Y-Delta transform | Voltage divider | Current divider | Combining impedances

AC Circuits: Alternating current | AC Voltage and Current | Phasors | Impedance | RC Circuits | RCL Circuits: RCL frequency domain | RCL time domain simple | RCL time domain Example

Benefits and Design: Benefits | Circuit design

Amplifiers: Multi-stage transistor amplifiers | Electronic amplifier | Operational amplifiers | Example | Applications: Comparator | Instrumentation amplifier | Schmitt trigger | Multivibrator | Inductance gyrator | Negative impedance converter | Precision rectifier | Analog multipliers

Switching amplifier: Pulse-width modulation (PWM) | Pulse-amplitude modulation (PAM) | Pulse-code modulation (PCM) | Pulse-density modulation (PDM) | Pulse-position modulation

Oscillators: Hartley | Armstrong | Clapp | Colpitts | Pierce | Phase-shift | Wien bridge | RC | LC

Modulation Methods:
Analog modulation methods:
Angular modulation: Phase modulation (PM) | Frequency modulation (FM)
Amplitude modulation (AM): Double-sideband suppressed-carrier transmission (DSB-SC) | Single-sideband modulation (SSB, or SSB-AM) | Vestigial-sideband modulation (VSB, or VSB-AM) | Quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM)
Digital modulation methods: Phase-shift keying (PSK) | Frequency-shift keying (FSK) | Amplitude-shift keying (ASK) | Polar modulation | Continuous phase modulation (CPM) | Minimum-shift keying (MSK)
Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) modulation
Trellis coded modulation (TCM)
Pulse modulation methods: Direct-sequence spread spectrum | Frequency-hopping spread spectrum

Filter design: Electronic Filter | Infinite impulse response | Finite impulse response
Linear Filters: Butterworth | Chebyshev | Elliptic (Cauer) | Bessel | Gaussian
Active Filters: Low-pass | Raised-cosine | High-pass | Band-pass | Band-stop | Biquad | All-pass | Sallen and Key, and VCVS | State variable, and biquadratic
Other: Atomic line filter | Matched filter | Digital Filter | Digital biquad filter

III. Digital Circuits

Integrated Circuit: Boolean Algebra | Microprocessor | Microcontroller | RISC | Digital Signal Processor | Graphics Processing Unit | System-on-a-chip | Very-large-scale integration | TTL | CMOS

Elements of Digital Circuits: Latches and Flip Flops | Counters | Adders | Multiplexers

Computer Architecture: RAM and ROM | Registers | ALU | Microprocessor Design/ALU

Analog-to-Digital and Digital-to-Analog Converters: Analog-to-digital converter | Digital to Analog Converter