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| The 180 Degree Hybrid Junction | Analysis of the hybrid junction |
| ADS Tutorial | A mini-tutorial on HP's Advanced Design System software |
| Capacitively Coupled Power Supply | A capacitor coupled dc power supply for CATV applications. |
| Bartlett's Bisection Theorem | Modify passive filters for unequal terminations. |
| RF Directional Couplers | The design and analysis of wirewound toroidal directional couplers. |
| RF Directional Coupler Patent (pic) | Dual Core RF Directional Coupler - 6,114,924 |
| Modified Howland Current Source | A constant current source using an op-amp. |
| Impedance Transformers | An adjustable 4/9:1 - 9:1 impedance transformer. |
| Gilbert Cells | Introduction to Gilbert cells. |
| How to Solder | The correct procedure, despite what you might have been taught. |
| Laser Predistortion | Predistortion of a broadband analog signal for laser modulation |
| Magic-T | The magic-T and its applications. |
| Introduction to Mixers | Definition of mixers. |
| Mixers in Communications | Using mixers in radio communications. |
| Modem AT Command Set | Comprehensive list and explanation of the AT command set. |
| Quad-Detector Patent 6,218,885 | Varactor diode provides temperature stability for FM quadrature demodulator. |
| Patent 6,380,720 | Dual Mode Power Supply |
| Document 20020178454 | Broadcast Television and Satellite Signal Switching System and Method for Telephony Signal Insertion |
| Document 20020191718 | Method and Apparatus for Automatically Compensating for Attenuation in a Received Signal |
| Patent 7,046,985 | Security System |
Third Party Tutorials
| Alpha Industries Tutorials | Varactor controlled phase shifter, VCO design, PIN diodes attenuator design |
| American Microsemiconductor Tutorials on Semiconductors | Bipolar transistors, diacs, diodes, diode arrays, ECG, NTE, and SK replacements, germanium diode, junction FET MOSFET, SCR, tunnel diode and back diode, transient voltage suppressor, triacs, unijunction transistors, varactor diodes, zener diodes |
| Assembly Process for Hobbyists | Circuit drawing, Printed circuit drawing, circuit operation explanation, procedure of assembly wiring, troubleshooting |
| Basic Hobby Electronics (comprehensive) | Theory and block diagrams, practical skills, components, test and measurement, digital, diodes, junctino transistors, transistor fault finding, unijunction transistors, FETs, op-amps, Bels, Decibels, and dB, thyristor, triac, diac, multivibrators, Schmitt trigger, reactance and impedance in AC circuits, phasors and resonance, microprocessor systems, combination logic, flip-flops, sequential logic |
| Circuit Sage | Impedance Matching, Transmission Line Design, Bandgap Design, Inductor Design, Filter Design, PLL Design, Smith Chart |
| Electronic Lecture Notes | Direct Current Circuits , Basic Concepts, Current, Potential Difference, Resistance and Ohm's Law, The Schematic Diagram , Electromotive Force (EMF), Ground, Kirchoff's Laws, Series and Parallel Combinations of Resistors, Voltage Divider, Current Divider, Branch Current Method, Loop Current Method, Equivalent Circuits, Thevenin's and Norton's Theorems, Determination of Thevenin and Norton Circuit Elements, Problems, Alternating Current Circuits, Sinusoidal Sources and Complex Impedance, Filter Circuits, Filters and Amplifiers, Log-Log Plots and Decibels, Passive RC Filters, Low-Pass Filter, Diode Circuits, Power Supplies, Transistor Circuits, The Junction Field Effect Transistor (JFET) |
| Elementary Electronic Components | Resistors, capacitors, diodes, transistors, integrated circuits, coils, printed wiring boards, relays, wiring materials |
| Elementary Electronic Instruments | Soldering, holding, cutting, making hold, planning, checking, testing, arrangement, making PWB |
| Engineering Method for Hobbyists | Soldering iron, solder, solder sucker, pliers, wire cutters, tweezers, printed wiring board, resistor, capacitor, integrated circuit, diode transistor, wiring material |
| Hewlett-Packard Application Notes | AM, ATM/Parallel Test Systems, Acoustic, Agilent function generators, amplifiers, amplitude modulation, anechoic chamber, synthesizers, battery testing, CDMA, coaxial systems, communications, compliance testing, component test, crystals, data acquisition, group delay, digital communications, digital modulation, oscilloscopes, distortion, electronic counter measures, electronic warfare, error analysis,fiber optics, Fourier analysis, frequency modulation, GSM 900, LCR meters, lightwave, logic analyzers, manufacturing, materials measurement, microwave, mixers, mobile radio, RF, network analyzer, noise figure, noise, oscillators, phase linearity, phase modulation, phase noise testers, phase shift modulation, phase stability, phase locked loops, power meters, power transistors, radar, protocol analysis, receivers, reflectometers, s-parameters, satellite communications, semiconductors, signature analysis, Smith chart, spectrum analysis, standrads, stripline, system verification, TDMA, television, telecommunications, transistors, vector measurements, video, voltage controlled oscillators, wireless communications |
| Hukk Engineering | Digital Video Series Tutorials |
| Integrated Publishing | Electrical Engineering training series, engineering basics, patent your ideas, college contact information, government agency links, programming, famous quotations, internet submissions, basio machines, much more. |
| IEC | International Engineering Consortium - optical, broadband, voice over IP, cable modems, DWDM, Ramam amplification, and much more. |
| Linear Technology's Application Notes | AC line monitor, amplifiers, current feedback, analog switches, ballistocardiograph, battery chargers, breadboarding techniques, capacitors, CCFL test equipment, circuit breakers, omparators, controllers, converters, current loop digital help circuits, distortion measurements, drift, drivers, active RC filters, switched capacitor filters, function generators, ground planes, hot swap, interface circuits, laptop circuits, memory, micropower, models, motor control, mulitplexers, noise, oscillators, oscilloscope, Ott process, peak detectors, phase-locked loops, power management, probes, programming, pulse detector, pulse generator, pulse width modulator, radio station, Reference-AC, Reference-current, Reference-voltage, linear regulators, switching regulators, signal conditioning, temperature, signal processing, single cell, single supply, switches, telecommunications, thermal analysis, trigger, voltage, voltmeter |
| Matrix Test Equipment Technical Tutorials | Test Setup for Measuring X-Mod, CSB & CSO (MTN-107), Notes on Composite Second & Third Order Distortion (MTN-108), The Relationship of Intercept Points & Composite Distortions (MTN-109), Extending the Limits of Composite Inermodulation Distortion Measurements (MTN-110), Bridge Method for Measuring Intermodulation Distortion, N.T.S.C. Channel Designation and Frequency Chart, Channel Designation and Frequency Chart with FCC Offsets |
| Maxim Application Notes | A/D and D/A conversions/sampling circuits, amplifiers, analog, filters, battery charger, bias supply circuits, circuit protections, fiber optic circuits, high frequency wireless circuits, interface, measurement circuits, miscellaneous circuits, power supply circuits, supervisory/voltage monitor circuits, video circuits |
| Minicircuits Application Note Library | Measurement methods, speed IM testing, automated compression measurements, surface mount assembly, ESD control for electronics manufacturing, frequency mixers amplifiers, I & Q and QPSK modulators/demodulators, electronic attenuators, digital step attenuators, directional couplers, filters, limiters, VCOs, phase detectors, power splitters/combiners, terminations, frequency doublers, RF chokes, RF transformers, switches |
| Motorola Tutorials | |
| National Semiconductor's Application Notes | I/O products, amplifiers, buffers, comparators, data acquisition, display circuits, flat panel display, interface, references, regulators, temperature sensors, audio, automotive, microcontrollers, microprocessor, aeorspace, software, networks, telecommunications, wireless base station, wireless communications |
| Netseminar | Online Streaming Audio and Video lectures from various companies. |
| New Wave Instruments | Active filters, adaptive equalizers, adaptive filters, amplifiers, antennas, coding theory, digital demodulation, detection theory, digital filters, digital modulation DSP, adaptive equalizers, LC filters, microstrip/stripline filters, information theory, instruments, multiplexing techniques, oscillators, phase locked loops, Pspice & Spice, Smith Chart, transmission lines, voltage controlled oscillators |
| Online Symposium of Electrical Engineers | Wireless communications, data networking, analog and RF electronics, DSP, ebmedded processing, digital logic design, bioelectronics, materials and devices, electronic systems, power electronics |
| Power Designers | Battery charging, control techniques, electronic components, inverters, magnetics design, power control ICs, power driver devices, power factor correction, power semiconductors, power supplies and converters, soft switching techniques, thermal design, UPS systems and voltage regulators |
| Pandora | Analog, antennes, audio, cables, calculators, circuits, components, control systems, databank, datasheets, digital, electricity, I2C-I2S, java, loudspeakers, measurement, motor-robot, optics, PICs, power electronics, radio-tuning, RF communications |
| RF Globalnet | Active components and sybsystems, antennas, transmission lines, connectors, CAD, instrumentation and test equipment, materials, devices, and circuit fabrication, passive components, and subsystems, systems design, DSP, mixed-signal, power supplies, etc. |
| RF MicroDevices | Power amplifiers, linear CATV amplifiers, general purpose amplifiers, modulators and upconverters, mixers, quadrature demodulators, front ends, attenuators and switches, IF amplifiers, transceivers, VCOs, IP3 calculations, microstrip line impedance, noise figure calculations, etc. |
| Spread Spectrum Tutorials | The ABCs of Spread Spectrum - A Tutorial on SS |
| Techonline University | Audio/video processing, Spread Spectrum, communications, data acquisition, DSP, embedded systems, fuzzy logic and neural network computing, input-output (IO) subsystem design, microprocessors, networking, operating systems, PCB design, portable and mobile systems, power electronics, real time operations and system design, RF circuits & systems, network routing, simulation, standards, system modeling, system theory, wireless system design, GSM |
| Texas Instruments | DSP, digital logic, memory, analog & mixed-signal, networking, processors, automotive, computing, control systems, digital control systems & motor control, image & radar, medical, telecommunications, wireless |
| Williamson-Labs | Famous last words, UFO film clip, NTSC, bypassing, shielding, decoupling, layout, resistors, capacitors, inductors, transistors, op-amps, 555 timer, ISD chip, digital logic, special technologies, communications, optical, RF, mixers & modulation, filters, transmission lines, HAM radio, television, antennas, cellphones, radar, sound, graphics |
A sampling of on-line engineering courses offered by U.S. universities.
| School | Course or programs | School | Course or programs |
| University of
California Berkeley http://explore.berkeley.edu/ |
Computer information
systems Digital telecommunications E-commerce Geographic information systems |
Michigan State University East Lansing http://www.vu.msu.edu |
Global engineering education Telecommunications Computer-aided design |
| Drexel Univeristy, Philadelphia http://online.drexel.edu |
Competitive intelligence Engineering management Information systems |
New Jersey Insitute
of Technology Newark http://www.njit.edu/DL/ |
Computer network
design Software development Telecommunications management Web development |
| Fairleigh Dickinson
University Madison, N.J. http://www.fdu.edu/webresources/ webcampus.html |
Computer networks Electrical engineering |
New York University New York City |
Internet/Web technologies Multimedia technologies Networking Programming |
| Franklin University Columbus, Ohio http://online.franklin.edu |
Computer science Management information systems |
Northern Virginia Community College, Annandale http://eli.nv.cc.va.us/vc/ |
Information systems technology |
| Georgia Institute of
Technology, Atlanta http://www.conted.gatech.edu |
Digital signal
processing Mechanical engineering |
Pace University, New York City http://online.pace.edu/ |
Computer science Information systems |
| University of Hawaii, Manoa http://www.hawaii.edu/dl/ |
Computer and information sciences Telecommunications |
Pennsylvania State
University University Park http://www.worldcampus.psu.edu |
Geographic
information systems Management info. systems Noise control engineering Reliability engineering |
| University of
Illinois Online Urbana http://www.online.uillinois.edu |
Expert systems Microelectronics processing Power electronics Reliability engineernig |
University of Southern California Los Angeles http://den.usc.edu |
Aerospace engineering Computer science Electrical engineering Industrial and systems engineering |
| Kansas State University Manhattan http://www.dce.ksu.edu |
Software engineering | Stanford University California http://scpd.stanford.edu |
Artificial
intelligence Computational molecular biology Optical-fiber communications Wireless communications |
| University of
Maryland University College, Adelphi hhttp://www.umuc.edu |
Computer systems
management Environmental management Software engineering Telecommunications management |
Stevens Institute of Technology Hoboken, N.J. http://www.webcampus.stevens.edu |
Computer science Technology management Telecommunications management Wireless communications |
| University of Massachusetts Lowell http://continuinged.uml.edu/ |
Information systems Intranet development Unix |
University of
Wisconsin Madison http://www.uwex.edu |
Engineering economics |
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