Book library for a board designer - with focus on space applications - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: s1m0n3t
author_rank: Newbie
timestamp: October 17, 2023, 10:07:46 am
content: Hi everyone, I'm an electronics engineer with few years of experience, mainly as a PCB designer. I would like to improve my knowledge around my job and for this reason I'm looking for interesting and well made books, about different topics.I also would like to move in the aerospace industry in a near future (I already collaborate in small space related projects in the past), so it could be good to acquire the knowledge that I need to design electronics for space applications.In the past few years I've found and bought these books, for example:The Art of Electronics, Third Edition (Paul Horowitz)The Art of Electronics, The X chapters (Paul Horowitz)Printed Circuits Handbook, Seventh Edition (Clyde Coombs)Electromagnetic Compatibility Engineering (Henry W. Ott)Signal and Power Integrity - Simplified (Bogatin)Then, I found these books to understand more about (aero)space applications:Spacecraft Systems Engineering (Fortesque)NANOSATELLITES: Space and Ground Technologies, Operations and Economics (Carvalho)Digital Avionics Handbook (Spitzer)Handbook of Aerospace Electromagnetic Compatibility (Perez)I think in this list I already covered a lot of topics with this list. I also would like to buy Power Electronics Handbook (Rashid), but an updated version (5th edition) will be released soon, so I will probably wait.Do you have other suggestions for me, or comments/feedbacks about the ones in my library?Thank you in advance!

author: m98
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: October 17, 2023, 06:02:39 pm
content: https://ecss.nl/

author: woodchips
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: October 18, 2023, 08:46:13 am
content: Almost anything by Electrochemical Publications. Not certain they still exist but got mine secondhand.

author: jonpaul
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 18, 2023, 03:03:01 pm
content: http://www.sigcon.com/High-Speed Digital Design: A Handbook of Black Magic (1993), ISBN 978-0133957242Fast Ethernet: Dawn of a New Network (1995), ISBN 978-0133526431High-Speed Signal Propagation: Advanced Black Magic (2003), ISBN 978-0130844088by Dr. Howard Johnsonhttps://www.amazon.com/High-Speed-Digital-Design-Handbook/dp/0133957241/

author: thermistor-guy
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: October 23, 2023, 11:56:05 pm
content: I suggest learning something about SpaceWire:https://www.star-dundee.com/spacewire/getting-started/an-overview-of-the-spacewire-standard/One day you might have to design boards with SpaceWire interfaces.

author: s1m0n3t
author_rank: Newbie
timestamp: October 24, 2023, 02:26:58 pm
content: Quote from: m98 on October 17, 2023, 06:02:39 pmThank you m98, the ECSS standards are indeed useful to understand a lot of processes and design constraints, I studied a few of them and follow 3 seminars about them in the past.Quote from: woodchips on October 18, 2023, 08:46:13 amI don't understand this one 100%. I checked their website, they also have a free access to a publications archive and then a book section with links to Wiley or other editors. But from a first look it seems they are focused on materials, semiconductors, battery technologies and similar topics...from a chemical point of view, indeed. It's interesting, of course, but maybe a little bit far from the applications, usually part of an electronics designer knowledge and daily job. But maybe I didn't understand well the point, from this first overview. Can you give me a couple of example (titles) of the books that you have, from the Electrochemical Publications?Quote from: jonpaul on October 18, 2023, 03:03:01 pmThanks jonpaul! I was already looking at the Handbook of Black Magic, but I'm trying to understand if there is actually an added value, like more topic or better explained, compared to the Bogatin's Signal and Power Integrity, for example. They seems covering similar topics.Quote from: thermistor-guy on October 23, 2023, 11:56:05 pmThank you! This resource is also pretty useful, I think. Maybe also 1553B standard is still active in some space applications? And I also heard about space applications with CAN bus, but I'm not sure if it's really spreaded in this industry or not.