Electrical Design Books
Brian Scarano
The"ONE" book that everyone in the electrical industry has been requestingis now available. An excellent book for training programs as this bookexplains how to properly install the materials used. One of Tom Henry'slargest books with over 375 pages filled with designing of theelectrician's everyday needs.
Avoidre-pulling the THHN conductors because you didn't understand theampacity, the terminal ratings, and the variables that apply todesigning. This book will educate the installer on the minimum design(Code required) or how to save money when installing larger conductors.What is the correct THHN wire size for a 150 amp panel with continuousloading? What is the right size wire to run to the parking lot lights for voltage drop?
Through Silicon Via (TSV) is a key technology for realizing three-dimensional integrated circuits (3D ICs) for future high-performance and low-power systems with small form factors. This book covers both qualitative and quantitative approaches to give insights of modeling TSV in a various viewpoints such as signal integrity, power integrity and thermal integrity. Most of the analysis in this book includes simulations, numerical modelings and measurements for verification. The author and co-authors in each chapter have studied deep into TSV for many years and the accumulated technical know-hows and tips for related subjects are comprehensively covered.
Manho Lee received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon, Korea, in 2010 and 2012, respectively, where he is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering.
He was a Research Fellow with the High Density Interconnection Group, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tsukuba, Japan, in 2005, where he was involved in development of interconnection techniques and interposers for 3-D multichip packaging. Since 2007, he has been a Research Professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering, KAIST. He was the Founder and Director of the 3D-IC Research Center (3DIC- RC) in 2005. His current research interests include development of 3-D stacked chip packaging using through silicon via.
After completing the Ph.D. degree, he joined Picometrix, Inc., Ann Arbor, MI, in 1993, as a Research Engineer, where he was involved in development of pico-second sampling systems and 70-GHz photoreceivers. He joined theMemory Di-vision, Samsung Electronics, Kiheung, Korea, in 1994, where he was engaged in Gbit-scale dynamic random access memory design. He joined the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Taejon, Korea, in 1996, where he is currently a Professor with the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department. At KAIST, his research focuses on modeling, design and measurement methodologies of hierarchical semiconductor systems including high-speed chips, packages, interconnection and multilayer printed circuit boards. Specifically, his major research is focused on chip-package co-design and simulation for signal integrity, power integrity, ground integrity, timing integrity and radiated emission in 3-D semiconductor packages, system-in-packages (SiPs) and system-on-packages. He has successfully demonstrated low-noise and high-performance designs of more than ten SiPs for wireless communication applications, including ZigBee, T-DMB, NFC and UWB. He was on sabbatical leave with Silicon Image, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA, as a Staff Engineer, from 2001 to 2002. He was responsible for low-noise package design of SATA, FC, HDMI and Panel Link SerDes devices. Currently, he is the Director of the Satellite Research Laboratory, Hyundai Motors, Hwaseong-si, Kyungki-do, Korea, for electromagnetic interference and electromagnetic compatibility modeling of automotive RF, power electronic and cabling systems. He has authored or co-authored more than 210 papers in refereed journals and conferences.
As part of your overall woodshop design, assigning each tool to a circuit and positioning outlets to handle your current and future layout is one of the first steps. If your wiring is run in your walls, you have to do that first before you insulate and close them up.
Most of what you have might be 120V, but most serious hobbyist and small business woodworking machines run on 240V, such as cabinet saws, jointers, drum sanders, wide belt sanders, larger dust collectors, and resaw bandsaws. Because of this, I suggest you have at least one 240V circuit pre-wired in your shop, and that you allocate the panel space for a double-pole breaker. Two of these circuits is better to have available.
Since I plan to build a small outbuilding in my backyard for finishing and lumber storage, I put two separate conduits through the shop walls with an access from the outside. I am running 12 AWG wire from two separate circuits, one for lights and fans, and one for spray equipment.
Do you have a discriptive layout of your shop and how you oriented your equipment? Kind of hard to tell what is what on the electrical drawings. Also do you think it would have been better to have a couple of floor plugs vs ceiling plugs if you had that option for you bigger centrally located tools like the TS?
My first question is, what level of physics knowledge is required to design a moderately complex circuit? And second, what books or materials should I study to prime myself on the properties and interactions of the basic components? i.e. resistors, capacitors, inductors, transistors, diodes, and the like.
Given you've missed the boat with the MITx free online course on basic circuits this year, plunge straight into "The Art of Electronics", Horowitz & Hill - one of best books out there and gets straight down to business unlike most textbooks.
I started a year ago with no experience. Find a simple project and just really put some effort into learning how to do it. If you really care enough about it, the experience will come along with the research. Google and a few forums have been enough for me to be pretty satisfied with where I'm at and very eager to continue learning.
As far as I know, Boolean logic doesn't get that complicated. The equations/operations for PLDs & CPLDs can get rather "involved", but it's the same simple logic with the same operatins over-and-over. One thing that's handy (you may already know this, depending on what kind of programming you do) is to get comfortable with hexadecimal. It's often helpful to know the value of a single bit, and you can easily learn to convert between hex and binary in your head (much easier than decimal-binary conversion). And of course, C/C++ do not directly work with binary (base-2), but they do understand hex (and octal).
I think it depends on what you mean by "moderately complex". Even with an electronics background, it usually requires some research when you start something new. (I assume it's the same with software.) If you were taking engineering in school, you probably wouldn't be programming a microcontroller 'till your 3rd or 4th year... After you've had your classes in all of the basics... DC circuits, AC circuits, digital circuits, semiconductors, analog circuits, etc.
But, as a hobbyist, you can jump-in with just a little knowledge in the area you're working on. I'd say it's a good idea to understand Ohm's law, Kirchhoff's Law, and how power is calculated. You should have a basic understanding of what resistors, capacitors, and inductors do, and if you are going to use transistors, FETs or MOSFETs, you should have an understanding of how they work. Same with op-amps & logic gates... If you are using 'em, you should have an understanding of what they do.
I agree completely with DVDdoug. I've been an EE designer for 20 years. Algebra is all that's needed until you get pretty sophisticated. There have been a couple of times I wished I remembered more from my integral equations class, but algebra and a circuit simulator have always been sufficient. If you really want to go deep into RF or some of the cutting edge areas you might need more math or fundamental science, but not to get started playing with Arduino.
I am in the same situation. I have a CS degree, a worthless scrap of paper these days. We homeschool and I wanted to do something with my son. I did the same thing you are doing. Reading books to find the information. It's of little value compared with just building stuff. One of the books I did read and thought it had some value, but only in the first half of the book was:
"Electrical Engineering 101, everything you should have learned in school but probably didn't." By Darren Ashby.
Here is an amazon link:
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Learn about series and parallel circuits with resistors and capacitors. Then checkout youtube for more tutorials then you want to watch. But there are good ones and not so good ones. For fun I watch Dave Jones' EEVBlog on youtube.
After the few actual books you need it's more important to have good equipment. Get a good soldering station. I bought a Hakko fx-888 and I couldn't believe how much easier it was to do good soldering. I also bought an electric skillet to do surface mount work. I mounted some hall effect sensors to breakout boards with it and it worked great. But for fun I bought a hot air rework station for $62 delivered from Ebay. I only just got it and have only used it for heat shrink tube. But Dave Jones did a review of the same model and he likes it. One bit of kit I have that is more fun then useful but it is very useful is an oscilloscope. I bought the Rigol DS1102E for $399. It used to be about $800 but some people figured out how to hack the firmware on Rigols cheap scope. So Rigol cut the price of this one in half. I got mine from
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