The Engineer's Resource Centre

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Sample Request Form
Find Equivalents
Electronics Resources
Electronics Search FAQ (and here and here and by FTP)
CircuitWorld
EE Times on the Web
Electronics World (includes Interactive Sourcing Directory, Virtual Community, and Glossary)
Electronics Search FAQ (here, too)
Electrical Engineering on the WWW
EE Internet Info Sites
Leroy's Engineering Web Site - Index of EE distributors, hardware & software links
Marshall's Electronic Design Center
Electronics Design & Technology Network (including commercial chip database...)
CircuitOnline (online database for semis, EDA, PCB...)
Internet Electronics Manufacturers
The Electronics Pages (prefixes, links...)
ePanorama - Electronics, telecom, audio/video, PC hardware
Cornell's EE Resource List
Electronic Design Online
Tomi Engdahl's Electronics Info Page (moving to epanorama)
Electronics Repair Center (component cross reference; archive searches; articles; classifieds; queries answered)
Electronics Repair Center Components Cross Reference
TechLink (links to distributors, board houses, manufacturers...)
EE Circuits Archive
EE Circuits Archive (mirror?) (parts cross-ref)
UAlberta EE Cookbook (FTP) (alias) (mirrored: Italy and UC)
The Electronics Page - Links to schematics at many sites
FTP Archive of FAQs, schematics, and software
Fil's Home Page (Home of the sci. electronics FAQ, IC guide, Free Spice FAQ, Repair FAQ, PC serial port, and other info)
PartNet: The Distributed Component Information System
ChipCenter.com
TDS-Net: The Electronic Components Web Database (> 100k datasheets)
FreeTradeZone - Datasheet service incl. some obsolete parts
Chip Directory (PA mirror and at twinight.org)
Chip Directory IC Logo Page
PCNalert (Product Change Notices, obsolescence, time-critical manufacturers' data; requires paid subscription)
SemiDex (functional index of memory/uP chips)
QuestLink (electronics parts search engine)
Global Semiconductor Datasheets Library
SemiRef
Harware Web (480 company URLs, etc.)
EEM On-Line
Electronics Data Bookshelf
Databook Shelf
Berkeley FTP Site (Spice, Road)
Electronics and Amateur Radio Links - Good collection of sim'n/CAD links
Mail Order Info
Serial/Parallel Port Info (incl. modem info)
Serial/Parallel Port Info (FTP Site)
Unusual Diode FAQ
Science Magazine Info
Science Hobbyist Home Page
Dave Baldwin's GIF Schematic Archive
The Mother Page (URLs from USENET posts)
Guide to Computer Vendors
Software FTP Archive
Circuit Cellar BBS
Cabling/Connector Info
Inst. for Interconnecting and Packaging Electronic Circuits
Electronics Parts List
The Electronic Guide/BeMa Electronics (jump site/software site)
Don Lancaster Articles
The Guru's Lair (Don Lancaster's site)
Imagineering On-Line
EE Publication Web Site Index
Electronics on the Web (practical electronics webzine)
Elektor (German version of EE hobbyist mag)
BestTest Directory of Test Eqpt. Products/Services
Peter Anderson's Home Page (PC interfacing, Hamfests, etc.)
ARRLWeb: American Radio Relay League (Hamfest and Convention Calendar, etc.)
The Electricity Page (France; Spice models, schemtics, faqs...)
Midnight Engineering (entrepreneurial journal; also MicroComputer Journal
Nuts and Volts Magazine
Tips from the Jeweler's Bench (articles on metal working, soldering, shop tools & sources...)
Surplus Metalworking Tool and Supply Sources
Tool/Part Vendors from the RV newsgroup
EMC & Safety Compliance FAQ
Oscilloscope FAQ
Programmable Logic Jumpstation
BestTest (3000 test, measurement, instrumentation links)
ITU's Technical Bookstore
Jan Axelson's Lakeview Research - Books on microcontrollers, interfacing, PCBs
Cadex's Battery FAQ
Russian Electronics - Schematics & other info; mainly just links to other sites
Poptronix Experimenter's Depot - Books, software
WebEE - Schematics, app notes (small selections), EE news
Manufacturers
Full Listing
Semiconductors
IC Manufacturers (CA site)
Gray's Semiconductor Page (links to chipmakers)
SemiRef
National Semiconductor
Motorola Semiconductor Design Net (lit. search)
Harris Semiconductor (carries RCA CA line)
Dallas Semiconductor
Maxim Integrated Products
Philips Semiconductors
Rohm Electronics (datasheet site)
New Japan Radio Corp. (NJR and JRC)
Holtek
NTE Electronics Product Info - Includes cross references
FAS (programmable analog)
Alegro MicroSystems (formerly Sprague semi; Hall Effect)
E-Lab (embedded control, LCD controllers)
Three-Five Systems (was NS opto; LCD panels/controllers)
Sony Semiconductors
Catalyst Semiconductors - Flash, EEPROMS, NVRAMs, digital pots
Temic (Phillips TDA series)
Pot's & Switches
ALPS Electric (pots, etc.)
Clarostat (pots...)
Bourns Inc. (pots...)
C&K Corporation (swtiches, trimpots...)
CTS (modular pots...)
State Electronics - Potentiometers.com - Custom pots, incl. concentrics
State Electronics Modular Pots
Piher
Omeg Pots & Switches - Includes concentrics
Tocos Pots, Trimmers & Panel Controls
Internet Music Supply - Includes ALLPARTS pots
Surplus Sales of Nebraska - Large pot slxn, concentrics
Enclosures & Hardware
Yahoo's Enclosures Index
Sescom
Lansing Instrument Corp.
Precision Fabrication Technologies (enclosures; old link)
Hammond Manufacturing Co (enclosures; corporate site)
Serpac Electronic Enclosures (ABS plastic)
Bud Industries, Inc. (cases and enclosures; corporate page)
Extrusion Technology (enclosures)
RAF Electronic Hardware
Devco Design & Development (custom enclosures)
Middle Atlantic Products (dist. by Lashen Electronics)
Sescom
LaVoie Technology & Invention - Affordable custom decals
Par-Metal Products Inc. - Customized enclosures
Precision Fabrication Technolog
LMB Heeger Enclosures
Byers' Chassis Kits & Custom Enclosures - Catering to research/OEM/hobby needs
Test & Measurement
EDA/CAD/PCB
Test and Measurement.Com
Mike's Test Equipment (and here)
Tucker Electronics (on-line and print catalog of new and reconditioned test eqpt.)
TestEquity (test eqpt.)
Audio Classics (used test and audio eqpt.)
Surplus Electronics MECI
Sphere's Used Test Equipment
C & S Sales (Elenco, B&K, Hitachi, Fluke test eqpt.)
R&S Surplus (surplus test eqpt.)
Harlan Labs (used test eqpt.)
AAAA Darrow (surplus test eqpt.)
AST Global Electronics (surplus test eqpt.)
Tech Services (used test eqpt., manual sources)
A-Com Test Electronics (tested test eqpt.)
American Test Equipment - New/used sales/rentals
Eltech - Canadian supplier of surplus electronic and lab eqpt.
Consolidated Parts Network (search for surplus dealers)
International Parts Depot (govt surplus test eqpt. & parts)
McGrath RentCorp (rent test eqpt.)
Test Eqpt. Manuals
Manual Merchant
Manuals Plus
Vintage Manuals
J-Works, Inc. - PC & USB test instrumentation and home automation
Metric Home Page - Purchase, rent, lease; occassional eqpt. auctions
General CAD Sites
CAD Index (suppliers and resources)
The CadStuff Page
CAD Tools Search/Link Page at CircuitOnline
Engineering Resources Database
CADmazing (ASIC design virtual corporation)
SciTechInt (CAD/EDA supplier w/ extensive catalog)
Wahoo's PC CAD/CAM Page
Wahoo's CNC Macnining Page
CAD Symbols (commercial, PICT, EPS, DXF...)
Personal Engineering & Instrumentation News (monthly for tech use of personal computers)
CAD Software
MechEng Software Archive
RS-274X Gerber Spec - PDF
Intellicad - AutoCAD clone; free source
CADVANCE - 3D CAD like AutoCAD; free
Barco ETS - CAM/test/plotting eqpt.; Gerber syntax and Barco DPF syntax
DeltaCad (Windows shareware)
Gamma Software ($25 CAD for PC)
TurboCAD Sources
DWS Gerber/CAD (Windoze Gerber viewer/editor)
DXF File Support (DXF description; GNUPLOT & other i/f)
AutoDesk's DXF viewer
Artwork Conversion Software (commercial Gerber/DXF conversion; Gerber info)
CAD Conversion Center
Gerber/DPF/CAD Site
DXF Spec/Converters
SoftSource (Simple Vector Format, DXF tools, Vdraft)
SVF Background
DXF Overview
Unofficial AutoCAD Pages (DXF docs, etc.)
DXF Release 12
AutoCAD's DWG Format
GraphiCode (GCPREVUE Gerber viewer for DOS/Windows)
Fred's Gerber Toolshop (Data Workshop Pro 32 for Win95)
ArtWork Gerber to DXF Converter
CAD Design Software - GerbARX Gerber/DXF Converter; many EDA tools
RSI DXF/Gerber Translators (unlimited free/shareware Gerber viewer)
InnovCAD: CAMtastic and AutoGERB
GerberMagic - Free/NZ$48 Gerber viewer
Caleida Java DXF viewer
EBT (FIGleaf CGM/TIFF/EPS... viewer/converter)
W3C: Graphics Formats for the WWW (with CGM links)
AGOCG: The Computer Graphics Metafile
How to purchase the CGM Specs
Spatial Interfaces with CGM (viewers, browser setup, building CGM)
EIA EDIF Home Page
EDIF Tech Center
The EDIF Library (funcs for interpreting EDIF)
ceBox EDIF Viewer (for SPARC)
Trilogy Design (Parts&Vendors parts list s/w)
SmartDraw ($49 Win32 shareware for flowcharts, tech graphics)
CAM350 (CAM350 shareware Gerber viewer/editor)
Vanguard Software (Java HPGL viewer)
Lavenir Technology (ViewMaster; free ViewMate Gerber viewer [demo w/o save capability])
PCB - Open source layout for linux
linuxCAD
linuxCAD Review (and here, with links to alternatives)
OpenCASCADE - 3D geometry data structures & algorithms
Links to Linux CAD & modeling s/w
MindsEye - GPL 3-d modeling/animation for X
PDI - CADScript, Python scripting for CAD
FastCAD - View32 .DWG file viewer, free
Schematic Software
IPC (documents, product/service locator...)
PCB Terminology
IPC's SMT Land Pattern Program
Bruce McKibben's EDA Links
EE Compendium EDA Info Page