EE101 Resources Chart 1

0. Index
Electrical/Electronics → Areas → Go to Resources

Resources → University Programs → Websites → YouTube Channels → Research Groups

Maker Stuff → Community/Forums → Top Companies → Notable People → Online Stores → Free
Samples → Hardware and Software Tools(low cost)

1. Electrical/Electronics

a) Analog

//To Be Added here (website links, blog pages, magazines etc)

1. Analog Education Library by ADI

2. Analog Dialogue Magazine by ADI
3. Jim Williams Analog Repository by Kent Lundberg

b) Power

1. Power Electronics News website

2. Power and Beyond website
3. TI Power Fundamentals by Electronic Design
4. Power Applications Page by Infineon
5. GaN Transistors for Efficient Power Conversion 3rd edition
6. GaN Applications by EPC Corp.
7. GaN related Papers, Articles, Notes by GaN Systems
8. Power Supplies A to Z 3rd edition by Sanjay Maniktala and Rosano
9. The AC/DC and DC/DC Books Of Knowledge by RECOM
10. Plexim Academy by Plexim
11. Electrical Installation Guide (electrical-installation.org)

c) Digital

1. FPGArelated.com
2. DSPrelated.com
3. FPGA4student.com
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4. ASIC-world.com

d) Embedded

Newsletters:

1. The Embedded Muse - Embedded Newsletter (ganssle.com)

2. Subscribe to Embedded Computing Design - Embedded Computing Design
3. Newsletter - Embedded Artistry
4. Beningo Embedded Group
5. Interrupt | A community and blog for embedded software makers
(memfault.com)
6.

Podcasts:

1. Embedded.fm
2. MacroFab Engineering Podcast | Hardware, News and Guests

Websites:

1. Embedded Related website

2. Home - Embedded.com
3. TI Embedded Fundamentals by Electronic Design
4. How-To Software Articles | Barr Group

People:

Research Groups:

1. Digital Signal Processing Lab | IISC

2. EdWiki (ernet.in) - Embedded Systems Lab
3. Real Time Embedded Systems Laboratory (ernet.in) - Vlabs

e) RF and mmWave:

1. RF Basics, RF for Non-RF Engineers

2. Industry Keynote: Electromagnetic Fields for Normal Folks with Dan Beeker
3. Planar Microwave Engineering Textbook (open full chapters via SciHub)
4. IEEE MTT Society
5. International Microwave Symposium
6. CERN - RF related tags in CERN website
7. Keysight Resources whitepapers, e-books related to RF, mmWave
8. Resources by RFMW
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f) Programming

1. geeksforgeeks.org/c-programming-language
2. geeksforgeeks.org/python-programming-language
3. programiz.com/python-programming

2. Resources

a) Training/University Programs

1. Analog Devices University Program

2. Texas Instruments Precision Labs
3. Sparkfun Engineering Essentials
4. Element14 Learning Center
5. EE World Learning Center
6. Microchip University
7. Keysight University
8. Battery University

b) Top Websites

1. Electronicdesign.com
2. Spectrum.ieee.org
3. Allaboutcircuits.com
4. Electronics-lab.com
5. Electronics-related.com
6. Schematicsforfree.com
7. Electronics-tutorials.ws

c) YouTube Channels

Educational Maker EE Fun

EEVblog ElectroBOOM
Ben Eater

w2aew The Signal Path The 8-Bit Guy

Keysight Labs learnelectronics Hackaday

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FesZ Electronics Kiss Analog

SparkFun Electronics

Robert Feranec Andreas Spiess

Fully Charged Show

The Offset Volt Electronoobs CPU Galaxy

Onur Mutlu Lectures devttys0 SmarterEveryDay

GreatScott!
3Blue1Brown Photonicinduction

Paul McWhorter
element14 presents AddOhms

Mr Carlson's Lab
Brian Douglas

Jeri Ellsworth
Onur Mutlu Lectures

The Amp Hour

Digital Logic & Programming

FOSSi Foundation
All About Electronics

Mohamed Badawy(Power
Electronics)

d) Research Groups

Here are some top research groups from around the world working on Analog, IC design
and high speed RF communication areas. There are some very useful resources affiliated
with these like the series of lectures from Prof. Nagendra Krishnapura from IITM,
lectures by Prof. Ali Hajimiri from CalTech, Prof. Behzad Razavi from UCLA and many
talks on research in these labs:

1. Integrated Circuits and Systems Group, IITM (http://www.ee.iitm.ac.in/vlsi/start)

2. Centre for Nano Science and Engg, IISc (http://www.cense.iisc.ac.in/)

3. NeuRonICS Lab, IISc (https://labs.dese.iisc.ac.in/neuronics/)

4. High Speed IC Lab, CalTech (https://chic.caltech.edu/)

5. Communication Circuits Lab, UCLA (http://www.seas.ucla.edu/brweb)

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6. Integrated Sensors Lab, UCLA (https://research.seas.ucla.edu/isl/)

7. Integrated Computational Lab, Georgia Tech (http://hasler.ece.gatech.edu/)

8. Integrated Micro-Systems Lab, Princeton (https://www.princeton.edu/~kaushiks/)

9. Multifunctional IC Group, Virginia Tech (https://www.mics.ece.vt.edu/)

10. https://uapower.group/

3. Maker Stuff

a) Community/Forums

1. Element14 Community
2. Electronics Stack Exchange
3. Analog Engineer Zone
4. EEvBlog Forum
5. Hackster
6. Hackaday
7. TI E2E Forum
8. Electromaker

b) Top Companies

Texas Instruments Analog Devices Microchip Qualcomm Intel

MaxLinear Xilinx Nordic Semi Silicon Labs Maxim

NXP Broadcom Samsung Research Nvidia Infineon

c) Notable People

//To be added (top researchers, open source contributors, tutors etc in related fields)
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d) Online Stores

Want to buy electronic modules, chips, discretes, maker stuff online? These are some of the
best local Indian web stores you can search for:

Robu ET Store Sunrom

Electronics Comp REES52 Robo Elements

e) Free Samples

Who else wants free stuff for trying out cool projects and prototyping? Some of the top
semiconductor companies are kind and generous enough to send out free sample parts to
makers and students, but purely for non-commercial use. All of these work only with
non-gmail or commercial e-mail IDs like xyz@company.com, xyz@university.edu,
xyz@ieee.org etc.

Also, Ladyada from Adafruit has compiled a very nice free stuff list years ago which is here.

Note: Make sure that you are up to all of the T&C before ordering free samples from
respective companies.

1. Texas Instruments : TI has a university sampling program exclusively for students where
a limited variety of analog, power chipsets can be ordered. They also provide free
samples on most of their products directly through the ordering page of respective parts. 5
parts per-order and multiple orders can be placed together. They usually ship out without
any questions.

2. Analog Devices : ADI allows sampling generally on their product page and is available
for most of their products with a limit of 4 parts per-order. Lead time is long and they
wait to confirm and ship parts.

3. Microchip : Microchip is very generous and provides one free sample order per month
with a limit of 2 parts per order. They independently ship out samples via local sales and
are fast.

4. Maxim : Maxim ships out free samples upon request on the product page and
project/application details must be submitted to confirm the order.
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5. Silicon Labs : SiLabs provides free samples for most of their products and ships them via
Mouser distributor. Order can be placed from the product page of the respective part.

6. Pulse Electronics : Pulse uses DigiKey as their distributor and they have a lot of discretes
like inductor kits, transformer kits and antennas under sample program.

7. Micron : Micron has different variants of their SPI, I2C based memory chips available for
sampling and they distribute via DigiKey.

8. TE Connectivity : TE connectivity has several variants of their click-fit connectors, ports,

cables etc for sampling and they independently ship out samples.

9. Dialog Semiconductor : Dialog/Adesto have memory chips under their sampling program
and they use DigiKey as a distributor.

10. Hittite Microwave(Analog Devices) : Hittite has several PLL/RF/MMIC chips, evaluation
kits etc available for sampling and they use DigiKey as the distributor. Project details are
needed to be submitted to confirm the sample order.

11. Coilcraft : via official website and product page sampling option. Shipped to the local
sales team and then dispatched to the customer with a local courier.

12. Samtec : via official website and product page sampling option. Shipped directly with
UPS service.

The above mentioned details are as per my sampling experiences in 2020-2021 and all links
are valid. Customs charges/duties may incur for some samples depending on the value of
order which has to be paid by the receiver/customer. Typically samples are shipped with DHL
by TI and Mouser, FedEx by ADI and UPS by DigiKey.

f) Hardware and Software Tools (low cost)

1. Microcontroller Development Boards

a. Arduino Boards : These are low cost, get-started boards for anyone and has an easy
programming interface, a lot of user community support and project examples. This is
a fully open source platform and a lot of daughter boards/modules are available to
build upon.
b. ESP32/ESP8266 Boards : Low cost tool to design and prototype for IoT based
applications. ESP32 SoC has integrated WiFi, BLE connectivity and has a 32-bit
Tensilica core.
c. Texas Instruments Launchpad :
d. STM Nucleo and Discovery Boards :
e. Raspberry Pi Pico
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2. Processor and SoC Development Boards

a. Raspberry Pi
b. Beaglebone Boards

3. FPGA Boards
a. Xilinx Arty S7
b. Xilinx Nexys A7
c. Xilinx PYNQ-Z2
d. Altera DE0-Nano
e. Teensy 4.0

4. Test and Measurement Tools

a. Red Pitaya STEMLab
b. ADALM1000
c. Multicomp Pro Bench Power Supply
d. UNI-T Multimeter

5. Softwares (EDA, Design, Simulation)

a. LTspice
b. Eagle EDA
c. KiCAD
d. Fusion 360
e. Proteus
f. MATLAB
g. NI LABView
h. NI MULTISIM
i. Keysight ADS
j. Xilinx Vivado
k. COMSOL Multiphysics
l. FREECAD

4. Other Random Resources

//TBA
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Note : This document is only as per my personal thoughts or findings and not entitled to any
company or agency. Feel free to suggest modifications or corrections in case. Contributions
are appreciated!

Contact me @ Navadeep Ganesh U @ https://www.linkedin.com/in/ngu25/