EE Bookshelf

Brief

This document has some good quick resources for WARG EE members. Any WARG members can add to this!

TODO: Add table of contents and proper headings

Favorites

• Wild Problems: A Guide to the Decisions That Define Us

  • A short book which has nothing to do with electrical.

• https://ridleyengineering.com/design-center-ridley-engineering/39-magnetics/66-031-choosing-the-inductor-for-a-buck-converter.html

  • A fun concise article about complexities of component selection and pitfalls/gotchas of following formulas / rules of thumb. Ultimately you should understand the implications of design decisions and allow those to guide your design because “There is … no single specific value that is correct for all converters.”

• Maxwell's Equations: <https://www.maxwells-equations.com/ >

• Antenna Theory: <https://www.antenna-theory.com/m/index.php >

• Fourier Transform: <https://www.thefouriertransform.com/ >

Even More

• Soldering Guides

  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpkkfK937mU

    https://youtu.be/3NN7UGWYmBY

    https://youtu.be/Z38WsZFmq8E

  • https://youtu.be/I_DAhAXARuI

• What is a decibel?

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpkkfK937mU

• random buck app note: https://ww1.microchip.com/downloads/en/Appnotes/Buck-ConvDesign-Feedback-Ctrl-Using-CIP-DS00003725A.pdf

• power path protections TI app note: https://www.ti.com/lit/eb/slyy168/slyy168.pdf

• What is the difference between VCC, VDD, VEE, VSS: https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/17382/what-is-the-difference-between-v-cc-v-dd-v-ee-v-ss

• The Art of Electronics pdf - https://github.com/TubelMJohn/TheArtOfElectronics/blob/master/The%20Art%20Of%20Electronics%20-%20Paul%20Horowitz%20%26%20Winfield%20Hill..pdf

• Hardware Interview Questions: https://www.reddit.com/r/ECE/comments/rmm5di/the_ultimate_list_of_hardware_engineering/

  • More bigger list (embedded/coding questions): https://montychoy.com/blog/the_ultimate_list_of_hardware_engineering_internship_interview_questions

• VectorNav 300 User Manual (Given from manufacturer in November 2021)

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• Watered down online ltspice clone: https://falstad.com/circuit/

• ZP Breakout Schematic: https://github.com/UWARG/ZP-breakout/blob/main/sch.pdf

• STM32L5 General Series Datasheet: https://www.st.com/content/ccc/resource/technical/document/reference_manual/group0/32/e9/c4/9a/ee/a4/43/f8/DM00346336/files/DM00346336.pdf/jcr:content/translations/en.DM00346336.pdf

• BLDC Motors Application Note: https://www.monolithicpower.com/pub/media/document/Brushless_DC_Motor_Fundamentals.pdf

• BLDC Motors ESCs:
  https://www.getfpv.com/learn/new-to-fpv/all-about-multirotor-fpv-drone-electronic-speed-controller/

• TI Designs 12V to 24V, 27A Brushed DC Motor Reference Design: https://www.ti.com/lit/ug/tiduaw3/tiduaw3.pdf

• Vector Nav INERTIAL NAVIGATION PRIMER : https://www.vectornav.com/resources/inertial-navigation-primer

• The Motor and how it works: The motors of a FPV quad explained: https://fjp.at/projects/fpv/motor

• VESC – Open Source ESC: http://vedder.se/2015/01/vesc-open-source-esc/

• Buck Layout Tips: https://fscdn.rohm.com/en/products/databook/applinote/ic/power/switching_regulator/converter_pcb_layout_appli-e.pdf
  https://www.ti.com/lit/an/slyt614/slyt614.pdf?ts=1675319689544

• CAN: https://www.ti.com/lit/an/sloa101b/sloa101b.pdf?ts=1675319328781&ref_url=https%253A%252F%252Fwww.google.com%252F

• Quick Reference Guide To TI Buck Switching DC/DC
  Application Notes: https://www.ti.com/lit/an/slva958b/slva958b.pdf?ts=1675154460098&ref_url=https%253A%252F%252Fwww.ti.com%252Fproduct%252FTPS82085

• How to Use LiPo Battery for FPV Drones Beginners Guide: https://oscarliang.com/lipo-battery-guide/

• EE Knowledge Base: Electrical Knowledge Base

• Adjustable Current Limit of Smart Power Switches: https://www.ti.com/lit/an/slva859b/slva859b.pdf?ts=1675424016002&ref_url=https%253A%252F%252Fwww.google.com%252F

• LiPo Battery Safety: LiPo Battery Safety and Procedure

• Charge Pump Explanation (Would highly recommend this to any EE that does not understand how this circuit works, really good explanation in a quick 10 minute video!): https://youtu.be/4alV5LzHLE4

• Protector, monitor or gauge – selecting the correct battery electronics for your Li-ion-powered system: https://e2e.ti.com/blogs_/b/powerhouse/posts/protector-monitor-or-gauge-selecting-the-correct-battery-electronics-for-your-system

• Five steps to a great PCB layout for a step-down converter: https://www.ti.com/lit/an/slyt614/slyt614.pdf?ts=1670800684601

• Ceramic caps vs electrolytic. What are the tangible differences in use?: https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/232631/ceramic-caps-vs-electrolytic-what-are-the-tangible-differences-in-use

• Common Resistor Values: http://www.interfacebus.com/resistor_table.html

• Layout Guidelines for Switching Power Supplies: https://www.ti.com/lit/an/snva021c/snva021c.pdf?ts=1675714770790&ref_url=https%253A%252F%252Fwww.ti.com%252Fproduct%252FLM22676%253FHQS%253Dti-null-null-custommanuf_df-manu-pf-EDI-eu

• PWM: PWM - Pulse Width Modulation

• Rick Hartley on Proper Grounding: https://www.youtube.com/live/ySuUZEjARPY

• Robert Feranac & Rick Hartley on Layering + Stackups: <https://youtu.be/52fxuRGifLU >

• Resistor Color Decoder: https://www.digikey.ca/en/resources/conversion-calculators/conversion-calculator-resistor-color-code

• Think in current loops - the key to reliable PCB layout: https://jitter.company/blog/2020/09/29/think-in-current-loops-the-key-to-reliable-pcb-layout/ (really good resource on basics of grounding, does skim over some important notes though)

• An IC Amplifier User’s Guide to Decoupling, Grounding ... : https://www.analog.com/media/en/technical-documentation/application-notes/AN-202.pdf

• "High Speed Digital Design: A Handbook of Black Magic" http://www.sigcon.com/books/bookHSDD.html
  "High-Speed Signal Propagation: Advanced Black Magic" http://www.sigcon.com/books/bookHSSP.html

• Altium MCAD Co-Designer: https://youtu.be/ju25zXFu8T0

• Eric Bogatin Decoupling Capacitors: https://youtu.be/ARwBwHZESOY
  Decoupling Capacitor Value Selection: https://www.signalintegrityjournal.com/articles/1589-the-myth-of-three-capacitor-values
  Rick Hartley on Stackups & Ground: https://youtu.be/52fxuRGifLU

• PCB Assembly Video: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=x3hKPOlG934

• Murata Sim Surfing for MLCC data: https://ds.murata.co.jp/simsurfing/index.html?lcid=en-us

• Resume Guide: https://xierumeng.github.io/resources/resume-guide

• BLDC ESC TI Series: https://youtu.be/fpTvZlnrsP0

• High Speed Digital Signal Integrity Introduction: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anX8QZMhVjI >

• Speedcrunch Calculator: https://heldercorreia.bitbucket.io/speedcrunch/

• https://github.com/kitspace/awesome-electronics

• https://github.com/m3y54m/Embedded-Engineering-Roadmap

• https://www.ti.com/lit/an/slva958b/slva958b.pdf?ts=1719775854142 list of all TI buck app notes

• PCB Layout Guide (high speed): https://s3vi.ndc.nasa.gov/ssri-kb/static/resources/High-Speed PCB Design Guide.pdf

Buck Converter Circuit

Multiphase Buck Design

Instruments

• Electronic Load Fundamentals, see picture below on how an ELoad draws constant current, applicable to any Load Regulation/Sweep testing on Bucks and LDOs

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  Electronic load circuit in constant current operation