The best way to learn electronics is by getting every rudimentary book you
can find from the library, set up a rudimentary lab and complete all of the
experiments.  The move on to more sophisticated circuit theory.  There are a
lot of circuit analysis book.

If you follow the syllabus in the first link, you can come up to speed in a
hurry.  What you get out is what you put in.  I always outline a new topic
in a notebook.  Writing things in long hand helps me to remember and I
suspect it works in general.

http://www.bu.edu/eng/leap/Course_Syllabi/EK307syllabus.htm

http://www.engnetbase.com/ejournals/books/book_summary/summary.asp?id=4593

http://www.electro-tech-online.com/

http://www.bu.edu/eng/leap/Course_Syllabi/EK307%20Online%20Syllabus_Sum04.ht
m

http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/jhome/1976?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0

http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/RecentIssue.jsp?punumber=8148






----- Original Message -----
From: "Cedric Chang" <Cedric@nope9.com>
To: "Microcontroller discussion list - Public." <piclist@mit.edu>
Sent: Sunday, January 28, 2007 2:23 PM
Subject: Re: [EE:] How do you create and understand circuits? (i.e. why
amisostoopid)


>
> 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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