Electronics is like many disciplines.  You can attack it "top-down" or
"bottom up" or sideways.

I started out learning from the "bottom". Ohm's law, how a capacitor  
works, that sort of thing.

Then I started reading electronic trade magazines and read about  
every "building block" that
suppliers were offering.  ADCs, multipliers, USB to Serial, etc.  As  
time as gone on , the "building
blocks" get more awesome and powerful.

Now I look at a design issue as an adventure in finding the right  
building blocks.

CC

-----Original Message-----
From: piclist-bounces@mit.edu [mailto:piclist-bounces@mit.edu] On  
Behalf Of Olin Lathrop
Sent: Sunday, January 28, 2007 7:01 PM
To: Microcontroller discussion list - Public.
Subject: Re: [EE:] How do you create and understand circuits? (i.e.  
why am isostoopid)

Lindy Mayfield wrote:
> How do you "understand" how a circuit
> works and how do you create with your imagination a new one?

I'm going to answer the second question first.  I've seen several  
replies
from others and I think they are missing the question, which I think  
is "How
do you synthesize a circuit given a task you want it to perform?".


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