A richly illustrated deep dive into how electricity and circuits really work — from the physics of charge and fields to the messy truth of real-world component behavior — by acclaimed security researcher and electronics obsessive Michal Zalewski.

Real circuits don''t behave the way textbooks say they do. <The Secret Life of Circuits< is a physics-first deep dive into why &mdash; covering not just the theory behind fields, charge, and signals, but the parasitics, coupling, ringing, noise, and failure modes that cookbook electronics education systematically ignores.

Michal Zalewski, a self-taught polymath who spent 11 years leading Google''s product security program, brings hundreds of original diagrams, photographed experiments, and step-by-step mathematical models to bear on the real behavior of electronic components. The result is a book that builds working mental models rather than a collection of memorized rules &mdash; rigorous enough for working engineers closing gaps in their foundational knowledge, readable enough for makers and self-taught hobbyists who are tired of following tutorials they don''t fully understand.

Inside the book, readers will find:

• </l<lGuidance on reasoning about unfamiliar circuits from fundamental principles rather than pattern-matching to known designs

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Autorentext

Michal Zalewski is a computer security specialist and an avid tinkerer with more than three decades of experience in electronic circuit design. He runs a popular, in-depth electronics blog and published a number of hardware projects featured on Hackaday and in other venues. He spent more than a decade at Google building its product security program and later served as VP of Security & Privacy Engineering at Snap Inc. He is also the author of two classic information security books—The Tangled Web and Silence on the Wire (both from No Starch Press)—along with Practical Doomsday, a guide to level-headed emergency preparedness.

Inhalt

Introduction

Part I: The Fundamentals
Chapter 1: A Primer on Conduction
Chapter 2: The Curious Case of Semiconductors
Chapter 3: Time-Invariant Circuit Characteristics
Chapter 4: Signals That Change Over Time
Chapter 5: Ideal Inductors and Capacitors
Chapter 6: Electronics at the Speed of Light

Part II: Circuit Building Blocks
Chapter 7: Voltage and Current Sources
Chapter 8: Common Passive Components
Chapter 9: Basic Electromechanical Devices
Chapter 10: Discrete Semiconductors

Part III: Exploring Analog Circuits
Chapter 11: Creating Circuit Schematics
Chapter 12: Arrangements of Passive Components
Chapter 13: Applications of Diodes
Chapter 14: Working with Transistors
Chapter 15: Operational Amplifiers
Chapter 16: Supply Regulation
Chapter 17: Other Analog ICs

Part IV: The Digital Realm
Chapter 18: Logic Gates
Chapter 19: Adders and Binary Math
Chapter 20: Memory
Chapter 21: Sequential Operations
Chapter 22: Analog to Digital and Back
Chapter 23: Clocks in Digital Circuits
Chapter 24: Toward a Rudimentary Computer

Part V: Software Eats the World
Chapter 25: Exploring Microcontrollers
Chapter 26: Talking to Peripherals
Chapter 27: Hello, World

Part VI: Making Your Dream a Reality
Chapter 28: Surface-Mount Components
Chapter 29: The Basics of PCB Design
Chapter 30: High-Speed Signals
Chapter 31: Electronics That Last

Epilogue
Index