On 1/28/07, Lindy Mayfield <lindy.mayfield@ssf.sas.com> wrote:
> This is a serious question.  How do you "understand" how a circuit works and how do you create with your imagination a new one?

You need what is called experience. A couple of years you have to
reproduce others projects and understand how it works. The next step
is reverse engineering
of good designs starting from PCB and aquiring the schematic.
The next step is modifying such schematics for better results.
The last step is creating your own designs.
In the mean time, reading everything is published on your favourite
area of interest is must.
You have an advantage being programmer (the advantage is your logic,
assuming all programmers have good logic) but usually software
programmers have serious leackage in basic of electronics and they
start without having the smallest ideea about how really a transistor
works.

So, for you will be much easy.

success,
Vasile
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