Outline of electronics explained

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
- Electronic engineering Microelectronics
Optoelectronics
Power electronics
Printed electronics
Semiconductor technology
Schematic capture
Thermal management
Automation Electronics

Advanced topics

History of electronics

General concepts

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

Electrical element/discretes

Passive elements:
- Capacitor
- Inductor
- Memristor
- Resistor
- Transformer
Active elements:
- Diode
- 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 circuits

Amplifiers
Comparators
Converters
Filters
- Active filters
- Passive filters
- Digital filters
Oscillators
Phase-locked loops
Timers

Electronic equipment

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