🧵 I want to teach myself electrical engineering
Anonymous at Sat, 26 Oct 2024 00:04:01 UTC No. 16449746
Computers are black magic and I want to know how the fuck they work.
I'd like to at least have an understanding of electronics on the same level as an undergrad EE student.
My current understanding of electronics is very basic. Mostly just learned from messing around with game consoles and some entry level physics courses in college. I'm a bit rusty on the physics and math too...
Where do I start and what resources should I look at?
Anonymous at Sat, 26 Oct 2024 00:46:46 UTC No. 16449808
MIT 6.004 + https://computationstructures.org/ gives you the computer architecture side of things (logic design from basic gates to cpus)
Anonymous at Sat, 26 Oct 2024 00:50:03 UTC No. 16449816
read a book on microelectronics if you want to learn about circuits
i have Microelectronic Circuit Design by Jaegar that i got for like 5 bucks at a used book store, it seems alright, and goes into some semiconductor physics to explain how transistors work and are designed
Anonymous at Sat, 26 Oct 2024 00:57:17 UTC No. 16449829
>>16449746
There are three different subjects here: how "bits" and binary logic are made from semiconductor junctions; how opcodes work, and communicate by the various components along the cpu bus; and how these low level instructions (ADD, MOVE, JUMP) are linked together into common libraries and complex functions in userspace. Theres also a bit of transmission line theory and ADC/DAC theory involved for the eldctrical bits.
The semiconductor and EE stuff are, frankly, worthless. Cool, but won't actually teach you shit about how computers work. Treat them as more of a "spice" to make your studies more interesting, but you'll want to focus the bulk of your attention on the "meat" of low level opcodes/assembly and linked libraries.
Anonymous at Sat, 26 Oct 2024 01:37:47 UTC No. 16449902
>>16449829
it's all important. if you want to do microelectronic design, it helps to understand the physics to motivate the models of the zoo of different devices
Anonymous at Sat, 26 Oct 2024 01:46:47 UTC No. 16449923
>>16449746
You need some calculus, and then learn about basic linear circuits. Once you learn about basic linear circuits, get a book on transistors and microelectronics. From there you should take a look at digital logic systems (the CS side of the problem), and digital integrated circuits (how would you actually make a shift register or NAND memory on a breadboard?).
From there if you still want to learn more you can get into integrated circuits or embedded systems. Personally, that's about as far as I wanted to go in the electricity side of my EE undergrad and headed towards control systems and signal processing.
t. Has both a bachelor's and PhD in EE.
Anonymous at Sat, 26 Oct 2024 02:35:56 UTC No. 16449959
>>16449923
The next stages is building a physical equivalent of function blocks for processing and then have a computer automate those blocks and then run testing for optimizing them and then automate that.
Anonymous at Sat, 26 Oct 2024 23:33:07 UTC No. 16451383
>>16449808
>MIT 6.004
Wait that shit is just online? For free? That's crazy man. Maybe I should just go through the entire MIT EE major.
>>16449816
Well I at least understand how semiconductors work. But only because it was relevant to some of my chemistry courses. I don't understand much else.
>>16449923
>how would you actually make a shift register or NAND memory on a breadboard?
Is it helpful to get a breadboard and other such supplies to test things like this on?
Anonymous at Sat, 26 Oct 2024 23:41:35 UTC No. 16451385
>>16449808
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Anonymous at Sat, 26 Oct 2024 23:45:22 UTC No. 16451389
>>16449746
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>>16451389
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>>16451391
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>>16451606
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>>16451606
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Anonymous at Mon, 28 Oct 2024 15:05:02 UTC No. 16453586
>>16449746
>My current understanding of electronics is very basic.
The exam averages during my undergrad electronics class were in the 30s.
Anonymous at Mon, 28 Oct 2024 16:21:20 UTC No. 16453674
What's something I can read to learn about designing switched-mode power supplies?
Anonymous at Mon, 28 Oct 2024 21:43:15 UTC No. 16454036
>>16451389
>>16451391
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Anonymous at Mon, 28 Oct 2024 21:54:54 UTC No. 16454053
>>16451383
The downside is MIT lectures are bloated as fuck and don't teach actual useful skills
Anonymous at Tue, 29 Oct 2024 18:21:43 UTC No. 16455031
Not OP, but I would like to get more into the mathematical and physics in the field of EE as an electrician.
I know the basics but as an electrician it's mostly about following the codes rather than a full theoretical basis of it. I would want to expand my theoretical knowledge on the subject. Not in digital circuits but more of a general understanding of forces, electromagnetic fields and such.
What kind of books should I get to learn the physics and mathematics of a equivalent EE degree?
I hope my formulation is not much of a hassle to read through as english is not my native tongue, though my reading comprehension is quite good.
Anonymous at Tue, 29 Oct 2024 19:46:45 UTC No. 16455141
>>16451389
>>16451391
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Anonymous at Tue, 29 Oct 2024 21:33:36 UTC No. 16455283
>>16455031
look up "Advanced Engineering Mathematics" by
Erwin Kreyszig, that's all you'll need for the math side
physics books are much more specific unless you're looking at high schoo/some of the undergrad ones, you're better off tbinking about what you need specifically from the EE side and supplement using something like hallidays physics (and the math book above)
Anonymous at Wed, 30 Oct 2024 15:34:39 UTC No. 16455904
>>16449746
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Anonymous at Wed, 30 Oct 2024 19:57:33 UTC No. 16456168
>>16449746
Learn how to do binary addition/subtraction/ASCII. After that move to circuit design; start with a tutorial on a full adder, then a multiplier, then practice designing your own circuits based on example problems.
Then I'd learn assembly/machine code, which should make it a little more clear how these simple circuits exponentially increase in complexity to handle contemporary computing.
As far as the physics of how electrons actually interact with the logic gates inside of a circuit, you can do it but I'd argue that's like learning fluid dynamics to understand how a boat works.
Anonymous at Wed, 30 Oct 2024 20:04:43 UTC No. 16456181
>>16456168
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Anonymous at Wed, 30 Oct 2024 20:13:02 UTC No. 16456198
>>16456181
I second this. There is a game called turing complete which looks at some of the arithmetic and logic abstraction layers. It is a nice game, but the circuit side is just a completely different animal.