Stan-tech is a site to help you learn the basics of electronic engineering….

there is more to electronic engineering than learning how to connect things together to make them work.

you need more disciplines – from understanding what you are trying to achieve ( the end goal)

writing the spec – you need to do this…

breaking down the concept into manageable blocks

designing the blocks of the design – and creating a spec for each one…

simulating ( as much as possible) the various parts – either as black boxes and algorithms or as actual circuits…

knowing a resistor is not just a resistor – especially at the high speed most circuits work at nowadays…

along with the other elements of capacitors and inductors at high frequencies…

knowing how to design with active elements to come up with circuit concepts that have a good chance of working.

knowing which elements of the datasheet are important for each block

drawing the schematics in cad.

translating this into a layout with the right footprints to be able to build it .

getting the components in the right packages

fitting the components to the board

testing the circuits and recording the differences to the design parameters

fault finding – most will need this …

revisiting the design to see the effect of the real life testing

connecting the various blocks together to ensure that the whole design works as planned.

what to do if the design deviates..

it may seem overwhelming and you may think – nope too big a job for me…

but for those that have got this far, can you feel the excitement of being able to turn what is in your head into reality…

if you can you can join that small select bunch of engineers that live engineering…