Brush-up on Electronics Design

This lecture covers fundamental concepts in electronics design, starting with Maxwell's equations, Gauss Law, Faraday's Law of induction, and Ampère's Law. It delves into Kirchoff's voltage and current equations, active components like MOSFETs and BJT, and guiding principles in the design process. The importance of functional vs. design specifications, operating vs. storage conditions, tolerances, and architecture selection is emphasized. Component selection considerations, PCB fabrication, and assembly steps are discussed, along with impedance matching, feedback amplifiers, and mixed-signal circuit design. The lecture concludes with insights on sampling, quantization, SNR, ADC architectures, and recommendations for hardware design.