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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
h
http://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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