Essentials of Electronic Technology Training

Electronic technology has rapidly worked its way into a diverse array of applications. In Essentials of Electronic Technology Training, you will learn new insights and timely information on circuit functions and their components, computer memory, processors, communication gear, and related technologies. Our Essentials of Electronic Technology Training course instructor clearly explains key concepts, offers examples, and provides many opportunities for actual practice and use of electronic essentials. From this newly gained knowledge, you can work better with EE information, handle customer questions with more background, and work out legal issues with stronger knowledge.

The Essentials of Electronic Technology Training course is intended for professionals with limited or no prior knowledge or experience in electronics. People who will benefit from the course include those in management and design; purchasing and legal departments, quality control, sales, and non-electrical engineering & manufacturing as well as anyone who desires to have a better grasp of electronics. From capacitors, inductors, and resistors to computers and fiber optic communication devices, this Essentials of Electronic Technology Training course gives the essential information you need to know about electronics. Those who combine knowledge about electronics with their professional expertise become invaluable assets to their organization.

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FUNDAMENTALS OF ELECTRICITY & ELECTRONICS

• The science of electricity and electronics–matter, atoms, molecules, electrons, protons, neutrons, voltage, and current

CIRCUITS: PROVIDING THE PATHWAY FOR USING ELECTRICITY

• How a circuit uses electricity
• The four key elements of a circuit: are source, load, pathway, and switch
• Measuring the four elements of electrical circuits using volt meters, ammeters, ohmmeters, and watt meters (using Watt’s law)
• Controlling the flow of electricity on a circuit: potentiometers, switches, variable resistors
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• Two kinds of circuits: series and parallel circuits

RESISTANCE AND INDUCTANCE IN CIRCUITS

• Figuring out the amps/current, ohms/resistance, and voltage in a circuit: Ohm’s law and Kirchhoff’s laws
• Using resistors to limit the current to a specified amount through the circuit
• Using inductors to oppose changes in currents to provide control over the rate of circuit activation
• Two kinds of inductance: serial and parallel
• What happens in a circuit when the current is changing? Transient response
• Changing the voltage and the current in a circuit: transformers
• How power is consumed by resistors (Real power: watts) and how power is absorbed, stored, and released by inductors (Reactive power: volt-amps)
• The importance of the power factor
• How to figure out the power factor from the inductance and resistance
• Trying to get the power factor lower: balancing inductive loads
• The biggest hurdle in making circuits go faster: is the inductance
• The importance and properties of time constant and inductance in high-speed circuits

CAPICITANCE IN CIRCUITS

• What is a capacitor? How is it different from an inductor?
• Types of capacitors: Aluminum electrolytic, ceramic, tantalum, mica, polystyrene, polarized, variable, and others.
• The time required to charge a capacitor: RC Time Constant
• Equivalent capacitance in series and parallel circuits
• What happens in a capacitor when currents change? Transient response
• Reactive power in capacitors
• Capacitance issues in today’s printed circuit boards and why capacitance must be controlled in the high-speed operation of microprocessors, RAMs, FPGAs, etc.

BASIC ELECTRONIC DEVICES

• The difference between analog and digital circuits
• Why do computers use almost exclusively digital circuits?
• What are silicon devices? How are they laid out?
• Basic silicon devices: diodes, transistors, and FETs
• How silicon devices are constructed: doping, P-N junction, layout.

Essentials of Electronic Technology Training – INTEGRATED CIRCUITS

• What is an integrated circuit?
• How are integrated circuits constructed?
• Common types of infrastructures for integrated circuits: MOS devices, CMOS, NMOS, and PMOS. Examples of these devices for constructing PLDs and PLAs.
• Which types of integrated circuits are most popular in today’s electronic products and why?
• How do integrated circuits work?
• What are the methods for constructing amplifiers and linear integrated circuits?
• Using NPN and PNP transistors; how to bias amplifiers and linear integrated circuits to make them function; deciding how you want the amplifier to operate; and working to get a specified voltage and current gain.

DIGITAL CIRCUITS

• What are digital circuits?
• Using binary numbering systems employed by all digital circuits
• Basic elements of digital information: bits and bytes
• The basic elements of digital circuits: Logic gates
• Types of Logic gates: OR, NOR, AND, NAND, XOR.
• Flip flops: combinations of logic gates that provide the basic building blocks for RAMs and PROMs
• The two types of flip-flops: D and JK

COMPUTERS

• History of Computers
• Microprocessors and mini-computers: What are the fastest ones?
• How a computer works
• How does the memory work (RAMs and PROMs)? Which are the fastest?
• How is programming for ROMs, PROMs, EPROMs, EEPROMs, and flash RAM done?
• What are RDRAMs and double-density clocking? How fast can they operate? What type of RAMs and PROMs will be used in the future?
• Storage technologies used in computers
• LEDs and LCD flat panel displays
• Why is Moore’s Law (that every 18 months the speed of computers will double) no longer a law?

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