I'm a non-EE interested in helping out with my school design team's electrical side (Team website, if you're interested). They make PCBs to control various parts of the solar car.

I've been working through some Altium tutorials and reading through some resources about what to avoid in PCB design, but it seems I'm expected to know ready-made circuits off the top of my head (multivibrators, amplifiers, etc.).

I took a circuits+electromagnetism course last semester, so I have a basic understanding of how to analyse simple circuits (i.e. op-amps, RC/RL circuits, inductors, capacitors), but I'm not sure how to intuitively understand what each section of a circuit does without slogging through the node analysis.

What would be a good place to gain a deeper understanding of circuit design?

 

hi A,
Welcome to AAC.
When you say deeper understanding of circuit design, do you mean learning the basic laws of electronic circuit designing.?
or
as you say an intuitive appreciation of a circuit 'block' function.?
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I'm a non-EE interested in helping out with my school design team's electrical side (Team website, if you're interested). They make PCBs to control various parts of the solar car.

I've been working through some Altium tutorials and reading through some resources about what to avoid in PCB design, but it seems I'm expected to know ready-made circuits off the top of my head (multivibrators, amplifiers, etc.).

I took a circuits+electromagnetism course last semester, so I have a basic understanding of how to analyse simple circuits (i.e. op-amps, RC/RL circuits, inductors, capacitors), but I'm not sure how to intuitively understand what each section of a circuit does without slogging through the node analysis.

What would be a good place to gain a deeper understanding of circuit design?

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I took a circuits+electromagnetism course last semester, so I have a basic understanding of how to analyse simple circuits (i.e. op-amps, RC/RL circuits, inductors, capacitors), but I'm not sure how to intuitively understand what each section of a circuit does without slogging through the node analysis.


What would be a good place to gain a deeper understanding of circuit design?


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