Guide to electricity and electronics for engineers and hobbyists

This guide is for electrical engineers, electronic hobbies, and anyone else who needs help with electricity and electronics.

This guide is should ....

=Tutorials=
 * Electronics: A very good book for learning the basics of electricity. It starts with an basic electron and can take you all the way up to computer architecture


 * Howto build an oscillator circuit (stub)

=Equipment=

Software
Cadence: professional circuit simulator, and layout tool
 * Howto interpret Cadence errors

Solder Iron

 * Howto select a soldering iron
 * Howto solder
 * Howto solder surface-mount components

Multimeter
=Integrated Circuits=


 * Integrated circuit identification
 * Howto identify computer chips or integrated circuits on circuit boards
 * Howto indentify integrated circuit(IC) chip packages
 * Howto identify integrated circuit (chip) manufacturers by their logos
 * Howto identify integrated circuit (IC) functions from their Hewlett Packard (HP) number
 * Howto identify integrated circuit (IC) functions from their Xerox number
 * Howto identify integrated circuits (IC) from their Sun Part number

=Printed circuit boards (PCB)=
 * Howto import FreePCB gerber (CAM) files into CircuitCam for use with a LPKF milling machine

=Electronic Projects=

Small projects

 * Howto build a simple device that turns off external appliances when your computer shuts down, This project uses the USB port to turn on/off external components. It is very easy.  Requires only 3 components

Large projects

 * Howto creating a wind generator (stub)

=Information, Identification, and Definitions=


 * Integrated circuit identification
 * Identifying Chip Packages
 * Identifying IC manufacturer logos
 * Hewlett Packard part numbers
 * Xerox IC part numbers
 * Sun IC and circuit board part numbers


 * Definitions


 * Electronic and computer acronyms
 * Solar energy acronyms, not all electrical