Links to Interesting Web Sites

The web sites listed below can be reached either by typing them into an Internet search or by accessing them directly with a mouse click from the home page for the textbook:  http://www.electronics-uncovered.com.  Most of the sites provide supplementary or updated material on subjects found in the chapters indicated.  Be warned that sites do change, so some of those listed here might not be accessible at a future date.
 
 
 
Chapter  Link  Contents
None– interesting sites that are not relevant to any single chapter  http://www.williamson-labs.com “Electronics Tutorials”, an amazingly diverse and instructive set of tutorials about electronic components, circuits, logic gates, the Internet, modems, and so on.  Available on line or as a CD-ROM
http://www.sciam.com/index.html Physics section of the Scientific American magazine’s site, which contains a particularly interesting “Ask the Experts” link
http://www.crs4.it/Animate/ Fascinating collection of animated technical and non-technical subjects from biology to acoustics from the Center for Advanced Studies, Research and Development in Sardinia, Italy
http://www.ci.berkeley.ca.us/
City of Berkeley web site whose emergency preparedness button leads you to a 2-D earthquake animation.  Note the form which is used for all US city sites.
8 – Favorite Programs  http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu Description of the SETI@home system that enables “wasted” screen saver CPU cycles on personal computers to help search radio astronomy data for signs of intelligent extraterrestrial life
12 – template for patent  http://patent.womplex.ibm.com/  Patent search site maintained by IBM
14 – Internet
23 – Device Fabrication and MEMS http://www.egg.or.jp/MSIL/english/msilhist0-e.html Production of high-purity silicon
http://www.memsrus.com MEMS foundry home page of Cronos, Inc.
http://www.almaden.ibm.com:80/vis/stm/gallery.html Beautiful images of nanofabricated objects made using the scanning tunneling microscope at IBM
http://www.mdl.sandia.gov/Micromachine/ Main MEMS entry point for Sandia National Laboratories with many still and moving images.
http://www.mdl.sandia.gov/micromachine/gallery/mite1-sm.html Microscope photo of a mite on a micromachine made at the Sandia National Laboratories
http://www.ti.com/dlp/ Digital light projection (DLP) micromachined systems developed at Texas Instruments, Inc.
http://www.isi.edu/efab/home.html Novel microfabrication technique developed at the University of Southern California
http://www.lightforce.harvard.edu/lightforce/site_review/atomlith.html
Images made at Harvard, with an atomic force microscope, of deposited atoms whose locations were controlled by optical radiation
http://www.memsrus.com/cronos/figs/mrelaypr.pdf Comparison of conventional relay with MEMS relay made at the foundry Cronos in North Carolina 
http://et.nmsu.edu/ETCLASSES/vlsi/files/VLSI.HTM Contain an IC fabrication tutorial from New Mexico State University
http://www-microlab.eecs.berkeley.edu/ The microfabrication facility at the University of California, Berkeley
Ch. 29 – Waveforms and Spectra
Ch. XXX – Digital Signal Processing http://ptolemy.eecs.berkeley.edu/~eal/eecs20/ Links to graphics, audio and video clips (???) relating to concepts of digital signal processing 
Ch. XXX – Communications