Crash Course Electronics and PCB Design by Udemy
Learn Electronics and PCB Design from the Ground up with Altium CircuitMaker and Labcenter Proteus
Course Highlights
- Students will be able to analyze and construct basic analog and digital circuits. As well as design printed circuit boards, assemble and get them running.
- Students will be able to leverage this knowledge to build and produce electronic products completely themselves.
- Students will be able to use numerous CAD and design tools such as schematic entry, PCB layout and routing, circuit simulators, MATLAB, and more.
- Students will learn how to use basic electronics lab equipment such as oscilloscopes, power supplies, signal generators, and more.
- Students will learn hands on techniques such as circuit construction with solderless breadboards, wire wrapping, and soldering.
Skills you will learn!
Curriculum
1 Topic
Setup Installation and Getting Things Ready to Roll
25 Topics
Course Overview
Intro to Electronics and Meet the Parts
Digital Concepts Primer Units and Hands On
Atomic Theory and other Spooky Phenomena
Understanding Current and Voltage
Understanding Current and Voltage - Part II
Series and Parallel Batteries and Circuit Analysis Teaser
Into the Abyss with AC/DC
Ohm's Law and Just a "Bit" of Power
Ohm's Law Deep Dive and Basic Circuit Analysis - Part I
Ohm's Law Deep Dive and Basic Circuit Analysis - Part II
Deciphering Resistor Color Codes and Meet the Capacitor
Inductors: Be Afraid...Very Afraid
Transformers - There's More to Inductors than Meets the Eye!
Manipulating Current with Diodes
"Manipulating Current with Diodes - Part II
Manipulating Current with Diodes - Part III
Switching States with Transistors
Switching States with Transistors - Part II
Switching States with Transistors - Part III
Understanding the Alien Language of MOSFETS
Understanding the Alien Language of MOSFETS - Part II
Tools of the Trade
Tools of the Trade - Part II
Tools of the Trade - Part III
5 Topics
Real DC Circuit Analysis
Kirchhoff's Laws and a Dash of Common Sense
Kirchhoff and Ohm vs. Basic Circuits
Voltage Dividers Up Close and Personal
Simulating Circuits with SPICE
49 Topics
Game Plan for Section 4.0
All About Mechanical Switches
Fun and Games with POTentiometers
Capacitors and AC Coupling
Working with Series and Parallel Capacitor Networks
Getting to Know RC Circuits
Exploring the Dark Side with Inductors
RC Circuit Review Simulation with Matlab and Finally RL Derivations
Understanding I and V in RC and RL Circuits with E.L.I. and I.C.E.
Fire all Phasors - Reactance and the Math Behind Phasor Representations
Easing into Complex Impedance with Phasor/Reactance Diagrams
Imaginary Number Primer and Complex Phasors
Putting Complex Impedance to Work with RC Analysis Simulation and Bench Model
Phasor Analysis of an RL Voltage Divider Circuit
Using RL Circuits and Impedance Analysis to Illustrate Low and High Pass Filters
Bonus Round - Plugging AC Line Voltage in an RC Circuit
Frequency Domain Analysis of a Low Pass Filter
What's Up with Decibels and all this dB dBm and dBv Stuff?
Hands on with Low Pass Filters and Frequency Response
Going to the Bench with High Pass Filters
The Dreaded Inductor - Round 1: Low Pass Filters
The Dreaded Inductor - Round 2: High Pass Filters
Building the Low/High Pass Filters
Diodes Reviewed and Starter Applications
Understanding Zener and Schottky Diodes plus Simple Voltage Regulators
Half Wave and Full Wave Diode Experiments on the Bench
Diode Experiments on the Bench - Part II
Schottky Diode Experiments and Logic Gate Implementation
Introduction to Voltage Regulators and Power Supply Design
Power Supply Primer
Building a 5V Power Supply...LM7805 Style
Adding 3.3V to our Power Supply Design
Taking our Power Supply Offline with a Transformer
Wiring up the Transformer to our Power Supply
Get the Noise Out! Introduction to Power Supply Filtering
Circling Back to Transistors...A 15 Minute Refresher Course
Introduction to Transistor Amplifier Circuits and Models
Transistor Biasing Current Amplifiers and Voltage Regulation
Small Signal Transistor Amplifiers
Common Emitter Amplifier Design
Hard Core Analysis of the Common Emitter Amplifier
Transistor Motor Driver Bench Experiment and Noise Reduction
Current and Voltage Regulation Experiments
Building a Practical Audio Voltage Amplifier
Crossing the Threshold from Analog to Digital Electronics
Retro TTL Build! - Inverter AND NAND OR NOR
Temporal Manipulation and Clock Oscillators
Timing Circuit Theory and Building Clocks with XTALs and Oscillators
It's all about the 555 Baby!
8 Topics
Boolean Algebra Number Systems and 100% Digital Electronics
Boolean Algebra and DeMorgan's Laws
Logic Families Data Sheets and Digital Signal Properties
Slaying the Dragon with Timing Diagrams
Integrated Circuit Packaging and a Walk Through History
Binary Mathematics Primer and the Full Adder
Mixing Logic Families and TTL/CMOS Interfacing Considerations
Circuit Fabrication Technique Review
18 Topics
Getting to Know Basic Integrated Circuits: SSI MSI LSI and VLSI
Building Circuits with the 74LS138 3:8 Decoder
Intro to LED Display Drivers and the 74LS47
Wiring up the 74LS47 on the Bench
Switching Things up with Multiplexers
Multiplexing Analog Signals on the Bench with the 4051
Understanding Shift Registers and their Applications
Shift Registers Cylons and Knight Rider...Seriously
Building the Scrolling LED Effect on the Bench
Interfacing and Bus Design with Buffers Drivers and Transceivers
Introduction to Math Chips: First up...the Comparator
Getting to Know the 74LS83 Full Adder
Arithmetic Logic Units (ALUs)... The Building Blocks of Modern CPUs
Digging Deeper into TTL ALUs and their Architectures
Building a Calculator on the Bench
Flip Flops and Counters Redux
Sequential Logic State Machines and K-Maps
Counter Design with Advanced Simulation
3 Topics
PCB Basics and Installing CircuitMaker
PCB Design End to End for Beginners
Hands on PCB Teardowns
25 Topics
CircuitMaker Fundamentals: Forking Projects and Basic Navigation
CircuitMaker Fundamentals: Magic Wand Schematic/PCB Overview
CircuitMaker Fundamentals: Magic Wand...Power Supply Design
CircuitMaker Fundamentals: Magic Wand 555 Timer Design & Parts Selection Process
CircuitMaker Fundamentals: Magic Wand Counter and Decoder Logic
CircuitMaker Fundamentals: Finishing the LED Connections and Starting PCB Layout
CircuitMaker PCB Layout: Magic Wand Part I
CircuitMaker PCB Layout: Magic Wand Part II
CircuitMaker PCB Layout: Magic Wand Part III
CircuitMaker PCB Layout: Magic Wand Part IV
CircuitMaker PCB Layout: Magic Wand - That's a Wrap!
CircuitMaker: Intermediate Design The 555 Organator Design/Music Theory Overview
CircuitMaker: Intermediate Design The 555 Organator Power Supply Design
CircuitMaker: Intermediate Design The 555 Organator Sound Generation and Amp
CircuitMaker: Intermediate Design The 555 Organator PCB Layout Part I
CircuitMaker: Intermediate Design The 555 Organator PCB Layout Part II
CircuitMaker: Intermediate Design The 555 Organator PCB Layout Wrap Up
CircuitMaker: Advanced Design The Inspiration behind the SimonDuino
CircuitMaker: Advanced Design The SimonDuino's Processing and Power Supply
CircuitMaker: Advanced Design SimonDuino's USB and Serial Port
CircuitMaker: Advanced Design SimonDuino's Indicator LEDs
CircuitMaker: Advanced Design SimonDuino's Input Buttons and Sound
CircuitMaker: Advanced Design SimonDuino Wrap Up
Generating Gerber Files with CircuitMaker Part I
Generating Gerber Files with CircuitMaker Part II
26 Topics
May the FSR Force Be with You...
The RAPTOR PSX - Solderless Breadboard Power Supply
Halloween Bonus Lecture: "H-Bridges and Things that go Bump in the Night"
Arduino/ESP32 Hardware and Software Primer
Xtreme Shopping Guide - Finding Parts without Breaking the Bank
RGB Hack and Schematic Analysis of a CRT
Designing an Audio Amplifier in Real-Time (the Beat Box Amp)
555 Timer Redux
Ground Here Ground There Ground Everywhere!
GPIO Expansion Breakout Board Mini-Course Seminar!
DC Load Testing Made Simple
Programmable Logic Primer with the PSOC 6
Get Your Conductive Ink On!
Practical Power Supply Primer
PIR Sensors for the Undead
How to Hack Your Way into an Embedded Engineering Job
Design and Build of a Motorized Paper Airplane - Part I
TinkerCAD -- In a Nutshell
CircuitMaker 2.0 Cheat Sheet
OpAmps for the Masses
Shopping for Equipment without Being a Grinch
Yet Another Arduino Simulator - Wokwi
CircuitMaker 2.2.x Project Copy Bug and Workaround
Hacking MicroPython with the Arduino RP2040 and OpenMV
Using ChatGPT's A.I. to Generate Arduino Code that Works!
Designing DC Power Supplies with Texas Instruments Webench Tools
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