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Editor's Note: This growing directory is manually maintained and automatically tested for broken links once a month. Links which appear broken for three or more consecutive months are deleted.
Should there be anything wrong with an entry, let me know and I will be glad to correct it.
Note: an entry can appear in several categories.
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| INSTITUTIONS |
International, Europe, USA, Other
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| STANDARDS |
and Norms
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| DATABASES |
including DataSheets and Link Directories
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| JOURNALS |
including e-Zines and Forums and Blogs
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| DICTIONARIES |
, Encyclopedias and Wiki's
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| NOBEL Prizes |
and Pioneers
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| HISTORY |
and Milestones
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| EDUCATION |
and Fun
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| INFORMATION |
sources: Articles, Libraries, References (books lists)
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| PROGRAMMABLE |
Logic, HDLs, IPs, FPGA boards, Micros
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| SOFTWARE |
both free and Commercial
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| COMPONENTS |
Producers and their specialized Distributors
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| MATERIALS |
and their Producers and Distributors
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| DISTRIBUTORS |
and electronic super-markets with large catalogs
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| INSTRUMENTS |
including used ones and subsystems (modules, kits)
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| COMPANIES |
other than those included above
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| SPECIAL Topics |
Drivers, EMC, Nanotech, Organics, Spintronics
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| EVENTS |
major Congresses, Conferences and Meetings
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INSTITUTIONS, Associations and Groups
For a more generic Directory, see Stan's links to Science Institutions.
- International:
- ASTM, formerly American Society for Testing and Materials.
- CODATA Committee on Data for Science and Technology.
- IEC International Electrotechnical Commission.
- IEEE, formerly the US Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
- IEEE Societies (the master list).
- ITU International Telecommunication Union (ex CCITT).
- Europe:
- BIPM. Home page of the SI System of Units. English version.
- ETSI European Telecommunications Standards Institute.
- IET Institution of Engineering and Technology, formerly IEE. UK.
- IMEC, A European independent research center in micro- and nanoelectronics, nanotechnology, enabling design methods and technologies for ICT systems. Based in Belgium.
- LPRA Low Power Radio Association.
- Office of Communications, formerly Radiocommunications Agency. UK.
- RSGB, the Radio Society of Great Britain.
- USA:
- ARRL, the Association for Amateur Radio, or American Radio Relay League.
- FCC, the Federal Communications Commission.
- Elsewhere:
- VCCI Voluntary Council for Control of Interference. Japan.
STANDARDS and Norms
- ANSI American National Standards Institute. (US)
- ASQ American Society for Quality. (US)
- ASTM, formerly American Society for Testing and Materials. (International)
- BIPM. Home page of the SI System of Units. English version. (International)
- CEN Comitè Européen de Normalization (European Committee for Standardization).
- ETSI European Telecommunications Standards Institute.
- FCC Federal Communications Commission (USA).
- IEC International Electrotechnical Commission.
- IEEE standards. See also the online IEEE standards page. (International)
- ISO International Organization for Standardization.
- NIST. National Institute of Standards. (US)
DATABASES, DataSheets and Directories
JOURNALS, e-Zines, Forums and Blogs
DICTIONARIES, Encyclopedias and Wikis
NOBEL Prize laureates and other Pioneers
I have selected only the prizes awarded for work which, in my opinion, had a direct effect on electronics.
HISTORY and Milestones
EDUCATION and Fun/Hobby
- !!! Free online EEE Texts. Start from here.
- Aaron's pages. Great for (certain) kids.
- ASIC World for beginners by Deepak Kumar Tala. Excellent. See all the tutorials:
Verilog,
SystemVerilog,
Specman,
SystemC,
Vera,
PSL,
VHDL,
scripting
- Basic Electronics on-line course on 101 Science.
- Books on Electronic and Electric Engineering. A huge list sorted by year.
- Books about Digital Signal Processing. A huge list sorted by year.
- Bowden's Hobby Circuits. This is a must.
- Courses in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT Open CourseWare. Free.
- CXI (Circuits Exchange International) of Andy Collinson.
Electronic and radio schematics, design, theory, tutorials, analysis, links ...
- Electronics Tutorials. Recommended categories: basic electronics, kits, humour.
- Electronic Concepts at "Bill" of Science eBooks. Basic electric and electronic pronciples.
- Giangrandi's site. Info, links and web calculators for ham radio, antennas, etc. Very nice.
- Wikibooks entry on Electronics.
- Wikipedia entry on Electronics.
- Fun, hobby circuits, ...
- Crystal Radio. Crystal radios, kits, parts, and supplies for the radio enthusiast.
- CXI (Circuits Exchange International) of Andy Collinson. See schematics.
- Lie detector you can build yourself.
INFO ... Articles, Libraries, References (Book lists)
- ASIC World. Excellent introduction to HDL.
- Beyond Logic. Info, drivers, software, ... about USB, PP, TCP/IP, Ethernet, ...
- Capacitor Label Codes from Transtronics.
- Chokes coding from MarVac.
- Code des couleurs des résistances. French.
- Color codes on Elektron BBS. German.
- Component Identification in Wikibooks
- Components color codes in Techlib
- cxem.net. Circuits, pinouts, articles. Also in Russian.
- Free Information Society, electronics section.
- Group Delay at Wikipedia.
- How does RFID-radar work.
- Inductor Color Code Guide from Electronix Express.
- Inductor color codes in Educypedia.
- Monachos Mechanical Engineering.
Motor calculations and similar.
- PLX. PCI interfaces and info.
- Resistor Color Code Guide from Electronix Express.
- Resistor Label Codes from Transtronics.
- Resistor & Other Component Identification by M.LaLena. Nice old page.
- TNT-Audio Online HiFi Review. Italiano and English.
- VERILOG Online Reference by Sutherland S. Available also as ZIP / TAR. Excellent.
- VHDL OnLine by W.H.Glauert Very good.
- WebEE Schematics, Software tools, Tutorials, and much more.
- Specific Articles:
- Frequency generation technology article from PTS.
- Group Delay Explanations and Applications by Peter White (Applied Radio Labs).
- Inductors by C.J.Hill.
- Next-generation RAM: Remembering The Future.
- Noise Figure and Equivalent Input Noise.
- Passive Electronic Components: Color Codes.
- Passive Electronic Components: Standard Values.
- Smith S.W.,
The Scientist and Engineer's Guide to Digital Signal Processing,
California Technical Publishing 1997. Download individual Chapters for free.
- Libraries:
- Digital Engineering Library (McGraw-Hill).
- Mentor Graphics technical publications library.
- Stan's Library section on Electronics.
- Technical Library for the hobbyist and experimenter. Concentrates on electronics.
- Lists of books and references:
- !!! Free online EEE Texts, a list maintained by Stan Sykora.
- Books on Electronic and Electric Engineering. A huge, up-to-date list of books sorted by year.
- Books on Digital Signal Processing.
A huge, up-to-date list of books sorted by year. Includes books on embedded systems.
- Books on Instruments and Sensors.
A huge, up-to-date list of books sorted by year.
- Intel ® 64 and IA-32 Manuals. A complete set of 9 PDF manuals for all Intel microprocessors.
- Online electronics books. List of free EE books on the web.
- SciTech Publishing (and Noble Publishing) list of books.
- Units of Measurement. Collected references.
PROGRAMMABLE Logic, HDLs and IPs (see also FPGA boards)
- Altera's Signal Integrity Center.
- Andraka Consulting Group. The high performance FPGA design specialist.
Lots of info and algorithms (see, for example, the CORDIC stuff)
- EG3. Embedded systems, including systems-on-chip, ...
- FPGA Central.
- FPGA Faq server. Lots of FPGA info and complete designs.
- Giga Test specialize on signal integrity. Partner of Agilent.
- Mediatronix. Free PicoBlaze IDE, FIR, DDC and JTAG tools (click on tools).
- Mentor Graphics FPGA / PLD pages.
- FPGA-Faq server. Lots of FPGA info and complete designs.
- OptNgn offer FPGA acceleration libraries and services.
Introductory offer: open source FPGA Floating Point Math Library.
- SOC central. A portal for systems-on-chip ...
- Synplicity Programmable logic verification tools.
- HDL (Hardware Development Languages):
- ASIC World by Deepak Kumar Tala. Excellent. See all the tutorials:
Verilog,
SystemVerilog,
Specman,
SystemC,
Vera,
PSL,
VHDL,
scripting
- Impulse Accelerated Technologies offer a C-to-FPGA compiler.
- OSCI Open SystemC Initiative.
- Verilog.Net. See their free tools and tutorials.
- VERILOG Online Reference Guides by Stuart Sutherland.
- VHDL OnLine by Glauert W.H.
- IP (Intellectual Property):
- Cross Bow IP. Parallel processing with MicroBlaze.
- OpenCores. Free designs, ideas, ...
- FPGA boards:
- Altera development kits.
- Dini Group. Logic and ASIC Emulation, FPGA Boards (Xilinx, Altera). (California, China, Japan).
- Easy FPGA. USB low-cost FPGA boards. (California).
- Hunt Engineering. USB programmable DSP and FPGA boards. (UK).
- NU Horizons. Distributes FPGA boards and PLD's from many producers.
- Opal Kelly. Convenient USB FPGA boards (Spartan 3). (Oregon, USA).
- Orange Tree Technologies. Low-cost USB Spartan 3 boards (ZEST...). (UK).
- Trenz Electonic. FPGA boards, ARM CPU modules, electronic development services. (Germany).
- XESS FPGA and CPLD boards. Xilinx Spartan 3; low-cost. (North Carolina).
- Xilinx boards & development kits.
- Micros (boards, accessories, etc):
- MC Pros. Development tools for all major microcontroller architectures.
SOFTWARE for Electronics
- Free, open-source and/or low-cost:
- Advanced Microsystems (AMS). Large set of low cost cross-assemblers for all kinds of micros.
- AS. The mythical cross-assembler of Alfred Arnold et al.
- Beyond Logic. Info, drivers, software, ... about USB, PP, TCP/IP, Ethernet, ...
- Capilano Computing. DesignWorks - easy-to-use electronic circuit schematic drawing tools.
- Giangrandi's site. Calculators, info and links for ham radio, antennas, etc. Very nice.
- FPGA Floating Point Math Library. Introductory offer from OptNgn.
- Freebyte's Guide to Electronics Online. Sites with free/low-cost contents. Circuits, Software, ...
- Free Assemblers. A good list of links.
- PSPICE page. A nice intro to SPICE and PSPICE by R.V.Jones (Harvard Uni). Many links.
- TTE Systems. RapidiTTy software tools for embedded applications (ARM, 8051).
- Web EE downloads.
- Commercial software:
- AMS - Advanced Microsystems. Large set of low cost cross-assemblers for all kinds of micros.
- ANSYS. Low and high frequency engineering simulation software.
- Comsol Multiphysics engineering simulation software.
- MathWorks. Home of Matlab. DSP design, signal processing, ...
- Mentor Graphics design tools. This is a giant in the field.
- SimApp. Affordable dynamic simulation for modeling systems in time/frequency domains.
- Symplicity FPGA, DSL and Verification tools.
COMPONENTs Producers
- Actel . Low power FPGAs.
- Altera. FPGA chips.
- AMD processors: Phenom, Opteron, Turion, Athlon, Sempron, embedded, ...
- Analog Devices. Components, ADC's, DACs, Embedded, DSP, RF/IF, Power, DDS, ...
- ARM. Home of the popular ARM processor.
- Fairchild Semiconductor.
- Hitachi electronic devices, semiconductors and materials.
- Intel processors: Dual-core, Quad-core, Centrino, Xeon, embedded, ...
- Johanson capacitors. Special ceramic capacitors.
- Lattice Semiconductor. CPLD and FPGA chips.
- Linear Technology. Broad range of IC components.
- Maxim. Power-supply, analog, linear, mixed-signal, ... IC's.
- Microsemi. Mixed-Signal integrated circuits, discrete semiconductors, RF components.
- National Instruments. Components, instruments, ...
- NXP, the semiconductors branch of Philips (largest in Europe).
- Pericom. Bus switches and translators - plus a lot more.
- Polyflon capacitors.
- ST Microelectronics. European broad-range colossus.
- Texas Instruments. Analog, Discrete, DSP, ... components.
- Voltronics. Amagnetic tuning capacitors, ceramic capacitors.
- Xilinx. FPGA chips, software, development kits, ...
- Zilog microcomputers, microcontrollers, DSP's, embedded ...
MATERIALS and their Suppliers
- Materials Producers:
- Litz-wire manufacturer in Ohio.
- Morgan Advanced Ceramics. High-tech ceramics like the machinable Macor.
- OR64. High-frequency Litz wire manufacturer in Spain.
- Polyflon electroplated teflon and capacitors.
- Spectran. RF and magnetic screening materials. Germany.
- Materials Distributors:
- Franco Corradi. Special ceramics, Peltier elements, temperature sensors, etc. (Italy).
- Kompass. Looking for a material? Find a distributor wirld-wide!
DISTRIBUTORS - supermarkets with large catalogs
- 4 Star Electronics specializes in obsolete components. (USA).
- Allied Electronics. Fast delivery. (USA, Canada).
- Applied Telcomm. Telecommunications gear (USA).
- Avnet. World-wide components supplier to producer and service companies.
Roof for EBV, Silica and Memec. National branches: IT
- CIE. Components in Electronics.
- Componenti Elettronici (Italy).
- Cooper Bussmann Circuit protection, inductors, super-capacitors. Worldwide.
- EBV Elektronik, an AVNET Company. Semiconductor devices world-wide.
- Elektron BBS (Germany).
- Electronix Express. The site of RSR Electronics in New Jersey. Lots of info.
- Farnell electronics components. (Worldwide).
- FCT Electronics. Connectors; have also a-magnetic ones.
- MarVac Electronix (California).
- Memec, an AVNET Company. Analog, Audio/Video, Interface, Embedded, Comm, ... (Europe).
- NU Horizons. Advanced semiconductors, display, illumination, ... Worldwide.
- Reliable Electronics Corporation specializes in obsolete components. Florida (USA).
- RS online. Fast delivery. Operates world-wide:
US,
UK,
DE,
IT.
- SECO. Embedded hardware; (Italy).
- Silica, an AVNET Company. FPGA, Memories, Xilinx, PIC, ... (Europe).
- SourcedX.com, a search engine for buyers of electronic components.
- Transtronics electronics equipment store. (Kansas, USA)
- Velleman international.
- Wholesale Electronics equipment store (USA).
SUBSYSTEMs, Kits, FPGA boards
- Bird Electronics. RF components and power meters. Ohio, USA.
- Broadband Power Technology. RF power amplifiers. Utah, USA.
- CPC (Communication Power Corporation). RF power amplifiers. New York, USA.
- Femto. Signal recovery modules (amplifiers, receivers).
- GMW Associates. Magnetics distributor based in California.
- Herley. RF & MW assemblies (power amplifiers etc).
- IO Tech. Data acquisition modules and boards.
- Kinetic Systems. Data acquisition products and services (particularly PXI boards).
- Miteq. RF & MW components and assemblies (preamps etc).
- National Instruments. Data acquisition systems, data evaluation software.
- Ophir RF. RF power amplifiers.
- PTS. Programmed Transmitter Sources: RF generators.
- Velleman Projects. Kits and Instruments.
IT Distributor: Distrelec
INSTRUMENT Producers and Distributors
- AAronia AG. Spectrum analyzers of all kinds (the Spectran mark). German.
- Agilent Technologies. Scopes, instruments, ....
- DataAq. Data acquisition systems.
For USB scopes see this page.
- Elpav Instruments. Distributes Hameg, Owon,.Hantek, Instek, ... (Italy).
- EST. Distributori di strumentazione di Misura per l'Elettronica (Italy).
- GaGe PCI and PXI digitizer boards. PC oscilloscopes. Distributors worldwide.
- Hameg Instruments. Economic European scopes and test equipment.
- Hantek. Affordable hend-held and USB scopes (Cina).
- Instek. Affordable scopes and instrumentation (Cina, with strong US presence).
- Keithley Instruments. A broad range of measurement products and lab tools.
- Keithley Instruments. A broad range of measurement products and lab tools.
- LeCroy. High quality scopes and other instruments.
- Link Instruments. Have also USB scopes and logic analyzers.
- MCH Instruments, a Chinese instrumentation producer.
- National Instruments. Instruments for data acquisition; LabView software.
- Orange Technologies USB FPGA boards ZestSC1,2. (UK).
- Oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, ... Links.
- Owon. Affordable hend-held and benchtop digital scopes (Cina).
- PTS. Programmed Transmitter Sources: RF generators.
- Pico Technology. USB scopes and similar.
Distributors: US: PC oscilloscopes, IT: PcbTech
- Saelig. Specializes in low-cost instrumentation. (New York state).
- Signal Hound. Low cost USB spectrum analyzer; 1 Hz - 4.4 GHz. (Wirginia, USA).
- Spectran. Spectral analyzers, Antennas, EMF sensors, RF screening. (Germany).
- Tektronix measurements, communications and video testing. Worldwide.
- Test Equipment Depot, a large US instumentation distributor.
- TiePie. PC based measuring instruments such as USB scopes.
French distributor with prices: Programmation.
- USB Instruments. USB scopes, and logic analyzers, ...
Distributors: UK: EasySync; DE: Meilhaus Electronic
- Velleman Projects instruments. USB scopes and much more.
IT Distributor: Distrelec
- Virtins Technology Low-frequency, low-cost virtual PC instrument. Singapore.
- Used equipment:
- Agilent CertiPrime program.
- Elpav Instruments (Italy).
Other COMPANIES
- Advanced Circuits. All about printed circuits, and they print them, too.
- AEA Technology. RF test instruments; antennas and cables testing.
- Applied Radio Labs).
- ARC Electronics. Communication equipment: WAN, LAN, Data links, ....
- BurchED. Videos & consulting on how to start with Xilinx FPGA's.
- Corelis Boundary Scan / JTAG tools and software. ScanExpress JET.
- Dedicated Systems Experts. RTOS & Embedded design & consulting. (Belgium).
- FTDI Future Technology Devices International convert legacy peripherals to USB.
- Freescale Semiconductor, embedded solutions specialists.
- JTAG technologies specialize in boundary scan testing.
- Nova Engineering, RF, digital and embedded design. Cincinnati, USA.
- Parallel port specialists. IEEE 1284.
- Power Designers specialize in industrial battery-powered systems.
- Quazar Electronics. Electronic Kits Megastore .
- SPCB, Standard Printed Circuit Board Ltd, full service PCB manufacturer in Hong-Kong, China.
- Trenz Electonic. FPGA boards, ARM CPU modules, electronic development services. (Germany).
- TrolleyScan promotes the RFID radar concept. See also. (South Africa).
SPECIAL TOPICS
EVENTS: Conferences, Major Meetings, ...
Some external links to lists of upcoming EEE events:
- Electronics Foru.
- FPGA Events.
- European Microwave Week 2008 including 4 Conferences and an Exhibition,
will be held October 27-31, 2008, in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
- Past events:
- DAC 2008, the 45th Design Automation Conference,
was held June 8-13, 2008, at the Anaheim Convention Center, California, USA.
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