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Template:Short description 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
Classical electronics
- Analog electronics
- Digital electronics
- Electronic instrumentation
- Electronics engineering
- Microelectronics
- Optoelectronics
- Power electronics
- Printed electronics
- Semiconductor technology
- Schematic capture
- Thermal management
Advanced topics
- Atomtronics
- Bioelectronics
- Failure modes of electronics
- Flexible electronics
- Low-power electronics
- Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS)
- Molecular electronics
- Nanoelectronics
- Organic electronics
- Photonics
- Piezotronics
- Quantum electronics
- Spintronics
History of electronics
General concepts
Data converters
Digital electronics
- Binary decision diagrams
- Boolean algebra
- Combinational logic
- Counters (digital)
- De Morgan's laws
- Digital circuit
- Formal verification
- Karnaugh maps
- Logic families
- Logic gate
- Logic minimization
- Logic simulation
- Logic synthesis
- Registers
- Sequential logic
- State machines
- Truth tables
- Transparent latch
Electrical element/discretes
- Passive elements:
- Active elements:
- Other components
- Aural devices
- Battery (electricity)
- Crystal oscillator
- Electromechanical devices
- Sensors
- Surface acoustic wave (SAW)
Electronics analysis
- Electronic packaging
- Electronic circuit simulation
- Electronic design automation
- Electronic noise
- Mathematical methods in electronics
- Thermal management of electronic devices and systems
Electronic circuits
Electronic equipment
- Air conditioner
- Central heating
- Clothes dryer
- Computer/Notebook
- Dishwasher
- Freezer
- Home robot
- Home entertainment system
- Information technologies
- Cooker
- Microwave oven
- Refrigerator
- Robotic vacuum cleaner
- Tablet
- Telephone
- Television
- Water heater
- Washing machine
Electronic instrumentation
- 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
- Flash memory
- Hard drive systems
- Optical storage
- Probe Storage
- Programmable read-only memory
- Read-only memory
- Solid-state drive (SSD)
- Volatile memory
Microcontrollers
- 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
- Some notable suppliers:
Optoelectronics
- Optical fiber
- Optical properties
- Optical receivers
- Optical system design
- Optical transmitters
Physical laws
- Ampère's law
- Coulomb's law
- Faraday's law of induction/Faraday-Lenz law
- Gauss's law
- Kirchhoff's circuit laws
- Maxwell's equations
- Ohm's law
Power electronics
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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