About the Book
A comprehensive ready-reference manual for electronics enthusiasts of all levels. A major section covers the main kinds of component, including surface-mount devices. For each sort, it lists the most useful and readliy available types, complete with details of their electronic characteristics, pin-outs and other essential information. A special feature of this section are the charts and tables which advise the reader on how to select the best type of component for any particular purpose. Basic electronic units are defined, backed up by a compendium of the most often required formulae. There are five more extensive sections devoted to circuit design, covering analogue, digital, radio, display and power supply circuits. Over 150 practical circuit diagrams cover a broad range of functions. The reader is shown how to adapt these basic designs to a variety of aplpications. Many of the circuit descriptions include step-by-step instructions for using most of the standard types of integrated circuits such as operational amplifiers, comparators, filters, voltage converters and switched mode power supply devices, as well as the principal logic circuits.
Table of Contents:
Units - definitions, multiples, sub-multiples, the main equations relating different units; components - resistors, capacitors, crystals and ceramic resonators, inductor, diodes, transistors, thyristors, triacs, and diacs, voltage references, constant current devices, operational amplifiers, transconductance operational amplifiers, comparators, optoelectronic devices, sensors, meters, heat, sinks, wire; analogue circuits - potential dividers, voltage stabilizers, voltage limiting and clamping, voltage converters, constant current circuits, bipolar transistor amplifiers, JFET amplifiers, MOSFET amplifiers, operational amplifier circuits, comparator circuits, precision rectifiers, peak voltage detectors, sample and hold circuits, filters, audio circuits, impedance matching, oscillators, function generators, thyristor and triac circuits, motor control circuits; digital circuits - choosing a logic family, logic gates, fanout and interfacing, unused logic inputs, decoupling, debouncing, analogue switches, complex logic functions, bistable, monostables, astables, timers, latches and registers, counters and dividers, ramp and staircase generators, Schmitt triggers, digital-t-analogue converters, analogue-to-digital converters, voltage/frequency converters, phase locked loops, light emitting diode displays, liquid crystal displays; radio circuits - frequency and wavelength, aerial and antennae, aerial amplifiers; tuned circuit, detector circuit, radio-frequency amplifiers, radio-frequency filters; power supplies -cells and batteries, main-powered supplies, improving the performance of mains adaptors.
