IC & Passives Databases
- Philips Passive
Components
- Now 669 IC
manufacturers (10/98) indexed by letter of the alphabet. Specifically for
getting data sheets from suppliers. ~donw1948. Excellent site.
- Gray's
Semiconductor Page has a comprehensive list of IC manufacturers on it
- Data Sheet
links. Well kept site. ~dburke
- The Electronic
Guide. Listing of Electronics manufacturers. BeMa. Large with many mirror
sites.
- Links to chip
manufacturers by company name, chip number & function. ~ganswijk
- Dana's index of over 600
electronics manufacturers
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eenet.com Online directory for the Electronics
Industry. Huge. Over 12,000 links.
- Tds net. Over 70,000 data sheets
available free.
IC Manufacturers
- Allegro
- AMP
- Analog Devices
- Analog Devices
- Atmel
- Avtech Electrosystems Info on
diodes in the faq.
- Bourns
- Dallas Semiconductor
- Echelon
- Elantec
- Emware Embedded Internet software.
80C51 I2C
- Epson japan
- Harris
- Hewlett Packard
- HP software & support
- International Rectifier
- Information Storage Devices
- International Rectifier. Power mosfet's
- IQD crystals
- Linear Technology
- Also Linear Technology
- Maxim
Micro Electronics Corp
- Motorola Semiconductor Product
Site.Links to other Motorola sites from this site.
- National Semiconductor.
- Pericom
- Philips.
- Seriplex
- SGS Thompson
- Sierra Semiconductor
- Signal Processing Technologies
- Sony.
- Texan Instruments.
- Unitrode.
- Wenzel Associates, precision crystal
oscillators.
- Xicor.
- Zetex
PIC Programmers
Traps for the unwary: does it come with an assembler and programming
software? If not, where do you get them. Is there technical support? Does it
have on-board firmware which will need upgrading (at a price) when new devices
are released? Are a PCB and components provided or do you have to make your
own? (What use is free software if you have to make and produce your own PCB?)
Remember the more 'free' it is, the less support you will probably get.
If you are a beginner then start with the PIC16F84 and just get a beginners
programmer. The first 3 links below are beginners programmers. Any are
suitable.
- Bojan Dobaj
P16PRO & PICALL programmers. As sold in Kits CPS96 CPS117
& CPS119. Well supported. Beginners buy CPS119.
- PIC programmers. Octavio
Nogueira. Well built beginners programmers. Supported. (Copied some of
Bojans ideas but that is what happens these days.)
- Covington 'no
components' PIC Programmer. Published in Electronics Now, 9/98 &
Silicon Chip, 3/99. Not guaranteed to work on all parallel ports but will
probably work on yours.
- Don McKenzie. SIMMstick. Well
supported. Not for beginners
- Newfound Electronics.
For experienced users.
- picflash PIC
programmers.
- Parallax PIC Programmers Under
new management Tech-Tools. 1/99.
- Incircuit emulators &
programmers.
- See here for PIC in-circuit real-time
emulators.
- Jens Madsen 16C84
programmers. Free, minimum components. But no support now.
- EPIC Programmer Works on
NT. (To many add-ons!)
- Pekka Titamaki Has non-firmware David
Tait 16C5x programmer corrected.
- Full list
of PIC programmers, compilers, assemblers, people, books and other stuff.
wky, germany
- Design for
a PIC programmer.
PIC Compilers - free, sort of
- Lars Silens language
- C2C
& P2C Low cost C and Pascal compilers.
- Wouters 'just
another language'
- $59 C compiler for SX &
PIC. A review for PIC has been done by Peter Anderson.
Microchip
- Microchip Web Site PIC chip
manufacturer.
- Microchip Web Site
Application Notes
- Microchip ftp
Site But you have to know the Index number of the part.
There are some excellent & well kept sites dealing with PIC's:
- Microchip Net
Resources. Excellent, up-to-date, very comprehensive reference site.
- Don McKenzie.
- David Tait. The person who
originally designed the 'Tait' style of PIC programmer in 1994. See
/files/uppboard.pdf for 16C5x non-firmware programmer.
- Fast Forward Engineering
- The Hardware Book
- Tjaart van der Walt
- phanderson.com PIC interfacing,
technical use and much more.
- Eric Schlaepfer
- E_Lab Digital Engineering.
Includes an Embedded resources directory of over 500 web sites used by uC
engineers.
- TAK Design. Alot of
links; FAQ's.
- Melabs. PIC development Tools & proto
PCB's.
- Forest Electronic
Developments.
- GNUPIC Archive.
Collection of freeware PIC Development tools.
- Softaids Embedded Web.
For anyone in embedded controllers, uC design.
- ftp site for PIC software
published by Everyday Practical Electronics
- UST. PIC AVR 8051.
- Home of Easy PIC'n book.
- Home of Myke Predko's PIC book.
To subscribe to the piclist discussion group send an email message to
'listserv@mitvma.mit.edu' with SUB piclist SET piclist DIGEST in the body of
the message. (A daily digest is far better than tens of individual messages
coming throughout the day.)
While on the topic of Lists there are over 20,400 LISTSERVE lists. You can
search them at http://www.lsoft.com/lists/listref.html
Search piclist archives.
There is an Atmel discussion group which you can join by logging onto at eGroups/list/avr
Atmel, Scenix, 80xx, 68HCxx
- Atmel. Breathing new life into the
80xx.
- Atmel. Stelios Cellar. Atmel website.
many AVR links. 2/99
- Scenix Net Resources. Over
100 links, programmers, tools.
- Jan Axelson ,the US magazine columnist
who has written a book on the 80xx family.
- 8051 info
- Many 80xx links.
- Roger's Embedded Microcontroller Page.
68HC05/11. Plus alot of other info.
- Bema. Web sites for 8051, PIC,
68HX11 & other uC's.
Retail, Speciality & Surplus Electronic Suppliers
- Computer/communications
Reference Page.
- Brookdale Electronics.
- Circuit Specialists.
- Digikey.
- Meredith Instruments, Lasers.
- Online Technical Exchange.
- Universal Systems Components.
- Hamilton-Hallmark.
- Netcomponents.com
- All Electronics.
- Gateway Electronics.
- Robot Store, California.
- Robotbooks.
- JDR, Jameco.
- MWK.
- Marshall.
- Mouser Electronics.
- EIO, Electronic Information Online.
- Electronic components, test equipment
tools especially for schools.
- Radio Direction Finding Systems.
- Microwave motion sensors.
- Electrobase. Search the USA for what
you want.
- Farnell in the UK. Components.
- Maplin in the UK.
- Dans Small Parts.
- Thailand - electronics producers &
suppliers
- Stacom Corp.
- Webscope/elx.
- Wyle.
Speciality products
- Goldpoint stepped attenuator volume
controls
- REALMOTION USA. Inc. Exciting
products for electric trains, cars, toys and other uses.
Surplus
- Surplus Sales Of Newbraska
- American Science & Surplus,
Illinois
- Hitech Surplus, Idaho
- Surplus Traders, Vermont
- Vorlac Industries, Australia
- Rockby Industries, Australia
- Oatley Electronics,
Australia.
General Electronic - some are big
- Circuitonline.com Directory,
services & resource guide for engineers in semiconductor industry.
- General engineering &
microcontroller site.
- Pinouts
& basic info for logic, uP & other chips. You input the pin data.
- sci.electronics.repair FAQ Sam
Goldwasser.
- Note about repairing electrical
goods, LCD, & alot of electronics FAQ's. Alot of Radio Control
links & information. Run by Sam Goldwasser.
- Index of semiconductor
companies. Technical & marketing info.
- Some good electronic links
here. Also robotics, ham radio, PIC tools
- Electronic Engineers Toolbox. Alot of
information here.
- The Electronic Guide.
Comprehensive. Describes itself as a website for the electronic
engineer: employment info, mailing lists, newsgroups & many links.
- Information &
code on Magnetic cardreaders & IR Remotes.
- AES Microcontrollers & Embedded
Systems.
- Cybercircuit.
Encyclopaedia of circuits & formulae.
- Electrical Engineering
Archives. U Wash.
The Basics of Design Engineering.
Motion control, CAD/CAM, fluid power etc.
Radio Controlled
- Radio Control of
planes & gliders etc.
Robotics, Servos & Mechanically Related Areas
- Servo controller, bearing
temperature monitors, shaft speed controllers.
- Walking Robots Group; 16
servo controller.
- Karl Lunt, Nuts & Volts
columnist.
- Kevin Ross.
- lasermotion.com Second
hand laser & motion related items: mirrors, motors, X-Y tables.
- Owikit Robotics.
- BEAM robotics.
- All about servos.
www.4qd.co.uk
- Portland Area Robotics
Society.
- Seattle Robotics Society.
- Large robitics discussion &
links especially the FAQ. Alot of other links too.
- cera2.com.
- BEAM Robotics
- Designer
George Katz
Stepper Motors
- Info & code on using 5804
as well as alot of info on the PC parallel port.
- Ian Harries. Links,
drive circuits and information.
- DC Motor Control using mosfets
& H-bridge.
- ~tonymerc Excellent
tutorial on Steppers & DC motors.
- mbartels
- Good tutorial on stepper
motors & how to drive them. But out-of-date. No info on the Allegro
stepper driver UCN5804. Links.
- schmaus
Thermoelectric Devices, Peltier Modules, Solar
- Melcor, Peltier Module manufacturer.
Free design software. Alot of information.
- Marlow, Peltier Module manufacturer.
Also alot of information.
- Kryotherm, St. Petersburg,
Russia.
- yessolar.com
- powerexperts Advance Power
Technologies
- cleanenergy
- photon
Beginners - science, electronics & computer information
Comprehensive & excellent sites. Many links to a VERY wide range of
topics.
- Internetnews.com Daily news
about the Net.
- scicentral.com Over 50,000 links
in 120 specialties in science & engineering.
- Tutorials in electronics,
electrochemistry & physics as well as Reference tables.
- Electronics for
beginners. ~diana
- Free electrical / electronic
troubleshooting techniques
- Good basic chapters
introducing electronics. Open basic 1 2 3 etc.
- Excellent
tutorial on Steppers & DC motors. Beginners. Tony Mercer.
- Electronics for beginners.
~jadams. Author of Internet Guide to the Electronics Industry.
- Iguana Labs
Beginners Tutorials.
- School & Amateur Science.
Hundreds of science-related links. Excellent site
- The Science Club. Many
science projects & links. Excellent site
- Basic
Electronic science Theory from International Rectifier.
- All about
Electrolytic Capacitors.
- Society for Amateur Scientists.
- Access Excellence. Many science
links.
- Got a problem - askanexpert A terrific
idea. 12 categories from which to ask an expert your question.
- Sci.Electronics.Repair FAQ
comprehensive repair guides for consumer electronics equipment & household
devices
- UK. Introduction to
designing electronic circuits using circuit simulation software crocodile-clips. Links to UK
school & electronic sites.
There is a huge amount of techncal information to be found
in the following University & Individually-run Sites.
- Tomi Engdahl Electronics
info plus 2000 electronics links. A must-visit site.
- Alex's Electronic Resource
Library Huge Library, Links & Glossary on electronics & related. A
must-visit site.
- Steve Walz See the ftp
section.
- Don Lancaster Excellent site. Has
good pseudoscience references.
- Programmersheaven.com Tons
of stuff on programming. Site redone 4/99
- Angelfire. C
programming
- snippets.com. C programming
- C programming
- Alan
Winstanley. Alan has a large A-Z listing of electronics links.
- University
of Alberta, Physics 395 lecture notes. Starts simple but gets deep pretty
quick. Solid info. Dr. Gingrich.
- University of
Alberta Electronic Cookbook Archive
- University of
Alberta Electronic Circuit Cookbook. ~charro Or use their ftp site and change to /PUB/COOKBOOK/
- Sunsite.
- Twysted Pair. Electronic tutorials
to download.
- Schemtics for
electronic projects. ~cake.
- Jughead Specializing in
modem, wireless, computer & electronics.
- Modem, LAN, X25, datacomm,
ISDN, TCP/IP tutorial links. Good site
- National Physical Laboratory, UK.
- year2138 Electronics,
electro magnetic, amateur radio links.
- Dr Bob Dr Bob's Resource just starting
up
- Dark Portal Large
gif's slow it down but good links.
- ftp://ftp.luth.se/pubBills itself as
the top ftp archive site in Europe.
Some sites with good discussions of particular topics.
- Grey
Code
- Hologram software
- CNC Machine Plans &
Links
- Everything about crystals &
cutting
- Comprehensive list of the worlds
phone plugs, electrical plugs & voltages.
- Digital Signal Processor Net. Also see dsp
info at Motorola, Texas Instruments , and
Analog
Devices.
- TI TMS320C6x DSP info
site. Andrew Phillips.
- Venn diagrams
High voltage, strobes, lighting, lasers
- Snock's
High voltage page. Links to other HV sites.
- Don Klipstein. Lasers. Tesla coil.
High-voltage. Large.
- Laser-Optics UK
- Lighting & illumination. David
Jenkins
- The Laser
Resource Library. Ed Edmondson & Sam Goldwasser
Laser light shows
- pangolin.com
- laser-fx.com.
- alnitak7
- laserfantasy.com.
- Laser Laser
Productions
Galvanometer scanners sites:
- genscan.com
- camtech.com
Batteries
- Duracell
- Varta
- Lecture &
practical notes
- Eveready
LCD's
- Mizu
- Hantronix
- Micro Electronics
- Microversal
- Truly
Information & code dealing with the most common LCD controller IC's.
- PIC16C84 & 8051 code to
control HD44780
- Control LM0181 &
HD44780
- LCD,
touchscreen theory, 68HC11 code to drive HD44780.
- Graphics LCD info. LCD links.
CCD Cameras
- CCD cookbook camera
page. ~rberry
- CCD cookbook page
wsu
- CCD cookbook page. jathumbe
- Supercircuits scx.com
Parallel Port Information
- ~filipg
parallel port FAQ
- purdue.edu
- Info & code on using 5804
as well as alot of info on the PC parallel port.
- Cpeacock. Interfacing to a
PC
- Also 8255 PC Interface
Card Tutorial Web Site. ~paul/boondog
- ualberta. ftp
pport095.*
- ftp files *ltp.faq,
ibmlpt.faq & krislpt.faq.
- Morrow476
- Two books on the Parallel Port
and alot of related information.
Electronics Design Tools & Virtual Instrumentation
- MentalMax. Download demo.
- Circuit Maker Electronic
Laboratory.
- Labview 5.0
- Proteus. Download demo.
- Niche Software. Download PCB design
demo.
- Intusoft. SPICE software. Alot
software downloads available.
- Electronics Workbench.
- Beige Bag. BB Spice/Logic.
- For the hobbyist these above programs are quite OK. But for more accurate
simulation as well as more control over the parts try MicroSim PSpice.
- MicroCap 6. Download a demo.
- AADE Filter design and
analysis software.
- crocodile-clips.com Very
basic introduction to circuit simulation software. UK.
- Protel Home Page.
- Ivex Home Page.CAD Package for PCBs.
Demo available.
- Pads Home Page.CAD Package for PCBs.
- Niche Software.
download pcbdemo.zip
- Electronic
Principles 3.0. Software to teach electronics. Along the lines of
Electronic Workbench. Demo available.
- RF & Electronic CAD.
Demo version to download. Alot of links to other sites.
- Data Translation
Inc.
- Intelligent Instrumentation Inc.
- Link Instruments CRO's, logic
analysers, pattern generators.
- IOtech Inc.
- Keithley MetraByte.PC Data
Acquisition Systems
- National Instrumants.
- Strawberry Tree
Inc. Data Acquisition & Control. Workbench PC for Windows.
- EverythingPCB is a Printed
Circuit Industry service, product and resource guide.
PC Upgrading & PC Information
There is a massive amunt of PC information on these sites>
- System Optimisation web site.
- Tom's Hardware Guide.
- Build your own PC.
- Introduction to
PC Hardware
- The Upgraders
Workshop.
- Build a
Computer.
- PC Mechanic.
