Essentials of Electronic Technology Training
| Commitment | 2 days, 7-8 hours a day. |
| Language | English |
| How To Pass | Pass all graded assignments to complete the course. |
| User Ratings | Average User Rating 4.8 See what learners said |
| Price | Call |
| Delivery Options | Instructor-Led Onsite, Online, and Classroom Live |
Course Overview
Essentials of Electronic Technology Training Course – Hands-on
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 course instructor clearly explains key concepts, offers examples, and provides many opportunities for actual practice and use of electronics 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 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 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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Course Details:
Essentials of Electronic Technology Training Course – Customize it
- We can adapt this training course to your group’s background and work requirements at little to no added cost.
- If you are familiar with some aspects of this training course, we can omit or shorten their discussion.
- We can adjust the emphasis placed on the various topics or build the training around the mix of technologies of interest to you (including technologies other than those included in this outline).
- If your background is nontechnical, we can exclude the more technical topics, include the topics that may be of special interest to you (e.g., as a manager or policy-maker), and present the training course in manner understandable to lay audiences.
Essentials of Electronic Technology Training Course – Audience/Target Group
The target audience for this training course:
- All
Essentials of Electronic Technology Training Course – Objectives:
Upon completing this training course, learners will be able to meet these objectives:
- Basic concepts of electrons, atoms, and molecules
- How electrical circuits function using voltage, circuit pathways, and impedance loads
- The functions of resistance and inductance in electrical circuits
- What is capacitance and why does it function directly opposite to inductance in electrical circuits
- Basic electronic devices – transistors, diodes, FETs, and all other basic devices
- Integrated Circuits – logic device, analog devices, FPGAs, CPLDs, and many other devices that are used in your handheld and cell phones
- Digital Circuits – logic gates, ICs, concepts of Boolean algebra
Course Syllabus
Essentials of Electronic Technology Training – Course Content
Essentials of Electronic Technology Training – FUNDAMENTALS OF ELECTRICITY & ELECTRONICS
The science of electricity and electronics–matter, atoms, molecules, electrons, protons, neutrons, voltage, and current
Essentials of Electronic Technology Training – CIRCUITS: PROVIDING THE PATHWAY FOR USING ELECTRICITY
How a circuit uses electricity
The four key elements of a circuit: source, load, pathway, and switch
Measuring the four elements of electrical circuits using volt meters, ammeters, ohmmeters, watt meters (using Watt’s law)
Controlling the flow of electricity on a circuit: potentiometers, switches, variable resistors
Two kinds of circuits: series and parallel circuits
Essentials of Electronic Technology Training – 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 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: 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 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.
INTEGRATED CIRCUITS
What is an integrated circuit?
How are integrated circuits constructed?
Common types of infrastructures for integrated circuits: MOS devices, CMOS, NMOS, 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 which provide the basic building blocks for RAMs and PROMs
The two types of flip-flops: D and JK
Essentials of Electronic Technology Training – 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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I got a lot out of the real world scenarios presented in class. Brian