Outline of electronics

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.

Classical electronics

 * Analog electronics
 * Digital electronics
 * Electronic instrumentation
 * Electronic engineering
 * Microelectronics
 * Optoelectronics
 * Power electronics
 * Printed electronics
 * Semiconductor technology
 * Schematic capture
 * Thermal management
 * Automation Electronics

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

 * History of electronic engineering
 * History of radar
 * History of radio
 * History of television

Data converters

 * Analog-to-digital converters (ADC)
 * Aliasing
 * Successive approximation ADC
 * Dual-slope ADC
 * Quantization
 * Sensor resolution
 * Sampling
 * Delta-sigma ADC
 * Digital-to-analog converters (DAC)
 * Digital potentiometer
 * Binary weighted resistor converter
 * Charge distribution DAC
 * Pulse width modulator
 * Reconstruction filter
 * The R2R ladder

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:
 * Capacitor
 * Inductor
 * Memristor
 * Resistor
 * Transformer
 * Active elements:
 * Diode
 * Zener diode
 * Light-emitting diode
 * PIN diode
 * Schottky diode
 * Avalanche diode
 * Laser diode
 * Microcontroller
 * Operational amplifier
 * Thyristor
 * DIAC
 * TRIAC
 * IGBT
 * Transistor
 * Bipolar transistor (BJT)
 * Field effect transistor (FET)
 * Darlington transistor
 * 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

 * Amplifiers
 * Differential amplifiers
 * Feedback amplifiers
 * Power amplifiers
 * Comparators
 * Converters
 * Filters
 * Active filters
 * Passive filters
 * Digital filters
 * Oscillators
 * Phase-locked loops
 * Timers

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
AVR - PIC - COP8 - MCS-48 - MCS-51 - Z8 - eZ80 - HC08 - HC11 - H8 - PSoC
 * 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:


 * Some notable suppliers:
 * ARM
 * Atmel
 * Cypress Semiconductor
 * Freescale
 * Intel
 * MIPS
 * Microchip Technology
 * NXP Semiconductors
 * Parallax Propeller
 * PowerPC
 * Rabbit 2000
 * Renesas RX, V850
 * Silicon Laboratories
 * STMicroelectronics
 * Texas Instruments
 * Toshiba TLCS

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
 * Current law
 * Voltage law
 * Maxwell's equations
 * Gauss's law
 * Faraday's law of induction
 * Ampère's law
 * 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
 * DC to DC converter
 * Voltage stabiliser
 * Linear regulator
 * AC to DC
 * Rectifier
 * Mains power supply unit (PSU)
 * Switched-mode power supply
 * DC to AC
 * Inverter
 * AC to AC
 * Cycloconverter
 * Transformer
 * Variable frequency transformer
 * Voltage converter
 * Voltage regulator
 * 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
Altera - Atmel - Cypress Semiconductor - Lattice Semiconductor - Xilinx
 * 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:

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
 * Semiconductor device fabrication
 * Semiconductor industry
 * Semiconductor consolidation

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