Silicon (& other Solid State) CPUs
x86
SuperHitachi
AMD64
Multi-Core
Photos
CPU Sockets Types
Mods & Overclocking
Homebrew Fabrication
General Schematics
Chipdir, Numerically and functionally ordered chip lists, chip pinouts, ....
Ths Finnish University and Research Network, one the most complete CPU ftp archives
WE Man's Electro Stuff, includes chip schematics
DDJ Microprocessor Center
Intel's Manual Site
AMD's Technical Documentation
The X86 Files
sandpile.org, The world's leading source for pure technical x86 processor information.
32bit SuperH Family
SH-5 Core Family, 64bit
AMD64 Homepage, porting GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, and NetBSD to AMD64
Wikipedia on Athlon 64
MulticoreInfo.com — The Portal for Multicore Resources
multicore Freescale Architecture
Processor Upgrading FAQ, includes voltage specs on the 486-P4/AMDK7 series
CPU Sockets Chart
Process Sockets, An article on the types of processor sockets used by AMD and Intel Processors
Geek.com Chip Processor Specs, "Now sporting 138 different processor types, with 607 different processors detailed!"
OverClocked inside
Overclockers.com, interactive CPU database
The Official "Overclocking" FAQ, comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips "Overclocking" FAQ version 0.5.2
Club Overclocker - The Original Overclocker's Club!, includes info on converting AMD XP to MP
Modding the Athlon XP into an MP, hardwarezone article
Homebrew CPU
Freedom CPU, Open Source: "It's the first purely SIMD superpipelined RISC CPU core that handles 64-bit data and wider"
Open Collector
Microchip Fabrication, by Peter Van Zant
apps
gEDA
Using gEDA, How to develop some Printed Board Circuits with free tools from the gEDA community.
gedo tools repository, list of lots of great tools
Gnucap is the Gnu Circuit Analysis Package.
app lists
Printed circuit board - RecipeFacts, Quality list of PCB/Circuit CAD
ECAD Resources for Linux
circuit lists
Discover Circuits, 11,000+ circuits!
WE Man's Electro Stuff, Contains many circuits in text-format on WWW-pages.
more circuit resources
alt.comp.hardware.homebuilt FAQ Version 20 (modified 06/18/97)
The Workbench!, PICs, cable adapter circuits, AVR projects, and more!
Silicon Sam's Technology Resource (SSTR) - V3.86 Main Table of Contents (ToC), home of the Sci.Electronics.Repair FAQ, lots of other stuff including Optical Drive FAQs (links above)
'zines
Circuit Cellar,
ftp site
'mods
sorgonet.com, excellent english/spainish site including "trashing" section on recycling old components to build new hardware
Brian Provinciano's The Low Level, dedicated to console hardware and software development, game obscurities, reverse engineering, and more!
GameSX.com, 'mod factory
SoC (System on Chip) Open Source Schematics
Open ARM9 SBC
VHDL (Very High Speed Integrated Circuits)
comp.lang.vhdl FAQ
FPGA (field-programmable gate arrays)
The Unsorted, Unformatted FPGA FAQ
fpga4fun.com - where FPGAs are fun, includes logic analyzer circuits
fpga4fun.com forums
SparcFun Electronics
SparcFun Electronics Forums
FPGA CPU News
The FPGA as a PCI logic analyzer
XESS Corp. promotes the use of programmable logic technologies by offering reasonably-priced development environments to engineers, researchers, instructors, and students.
programming
opencores.org
Opteron
Hyper-fast coprocessor plugs into Opteron socket
XD1000? FPGA Coprocessor Module for Socket 940
Arduino
Arduino
Xilinx
Xilinx
genetic algorithms
Design of Single Electron Systems through Artificial Evolution
Prototyping a GA Pipeline for Complete Hardware Evolution
Cellular Automata PRNG: Maximal Performance and Minimal Space FPGA
Chapter 6 Hardware Implementation of GA
Ring Around the PIG: A Parallel GA with Only Local Interactions ...
Hardware Implementation of GA
Optic and Holographic Memory
(also holographic lithography used for µ-scale printing)
"Disk" Style Storage
Fibrechannel Controllers
Fibre-channel adapter card manufacturers
CERN Fibre Channel homepage: Fibre Channel PCI/PMC Interfaces
Fibre Channel for Linux
Vendors
Custom Fibre Channel Products; FAQ: Custom Fibre Channel Products
Street Prices Fibre Channel Cards Computer Hardware PC Electronics
Fibrechannel Drives
nanotech Hardware
Nanosurf
Nanotechnology soldering to a single atomic layer
CMOS Imaging Sensors
CMOS from RAM
Anyone remember when you could make a crude image sensor by ripping the lid off a D-RAM chip?
Printer-port DRAM camera
"DRAMs und ihre versteckten Möglichkeiten"
Groups
IBM: Silicon Integrated Nanophotonics
Optical Links
Free Space Digital Optics Research
Cornell University On-chip Nanophotonics, logic from Si structures created from E-Beam lithography and reactive ion etching resonated by photons an varying frequencies
Helical Logic, Foresight Institute on Electron logic
What is Photonic computing?, FAQ
Smart Pixel Arrays
Smart Pixel Array Cellular Logic processor (SPARCL) - Overview
Smart Pixel Arrays
Optical Computing and Optical Disk 'mods & resources
parts and assemblies
Sam's CD FAQ Components
Notes on the Troubleshooting and Repair of Compact Disc Players and CDROM Drives
Notes on the Troubleshooting and Repair of Optical Disc Players and Optical Data Storage Drives
Sam's Laser FAQ
Image | Hardware Secrets
circuit schematics
Sharp page on "LASER POWER MONITORING PHOTODIODES FOR OPTICAL DISC SYSTEM"
Organic Material & Optical Discs
Cryptographic Hash Functions and CD-Based Optical Biosensors
Particle Emitters
OLED Sheets
Gas Lasers
Tube Cooling
see: FTL Stardrive Links: Plasma Acceleration
VCSEL Arrays
Crystals
Diode Salvage
LED & laser pointers
SPD (Single Photo Detection)
Single Electron Transistors (SET)
Functional combinations in solid states
Laser Physics and Nonlinear Optics, University of Twente
The LED FAQ Pages
Sam's Laser FAQ: Diode Lasers
Don Klipstein's LED Main Page
The Unusual Diode FAQ - v4.5g
mp4 embedded
CO2
Sam's Laser FAQ - Carbon Dioxide Lasers, from Sam's Laser FAQ
ClawConnect Interconnects for VCSELs, parc research
Two - Dimensional Optical Interconnects
Bandgap formation and scattering in Photonic Quasicrystals
One-Dimensional Nanostructures as Subwavelength Optical Elements for Photonics Integration
Photonic Crystal Research, MIT
GaAlAs - GaAs (Optical Drives)
Single photon interference with a Fresnel biprism, Single photon emission from N-V colour centres in a diamond nanocrystal
InGaAs
Photonic Crystals (PhC) in Nature
Aphrodita (The Sea Mouse) & Bolinopsis
diodes sorted by wavelength, K3PGP.Experimenter's.Corner
Laser Flashlight Hack
Diode (and other) Lasers: The good, the bad, and the blown.
LED Dynamics
Welcome to the LED Museum
Single photon interference with a Fresnel biprism, Single photon emission from N-V colour centres in a diamond nanocrystal
... also see: Astronomy Links: Single Photon Detection (SPD)
Single Photon Generation and Detection Technology
Fabrication Technology for Single Electron Transistors and Submillimeter Detectors
Low Light Level CCDs (LLLCCD) A new idea from Marconi (EEV) to reduce or eliminate CCD read-out noise.
PhC & GA
Inverse Design of Photonic Crystal Devices
Integrated Optical Devices Design by Genetic Algorithm
Inverse designed photonic crystal de-multiplex waveguide coupler
Parallel microgenetic algorithm design for photonic crystal and waveguide structures
Molecular Switching
Our first observation of Bose Einstein condensation of 87Rb using an Atom Chip
Organic Materials and Fabrication
Algae & Diatoms
Diatoms and photonic crystals
Lensless light focusing with the centric marine diatom
Radiolaria & Piezoelectrics
see: 3D Modelling & Animation Links: Organic Model Generators
Control
QED Portfolio
FPGA-Based Laser Beam Steering System
NI: High-Speed Laser and Motion Control with Intelligent DAQ
Sequoia: Low-Power Laser Controller Board
Laserdiode Current Control using a FPGA
Diode Driver Circuits
DIY: How To Make A Laser Diode Driver Circuit
Pulse Width Modulation
Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) Using NI-DAQmx and LabVIEW
Magntic Control
Tunable Photonic Crystals in the Visible Spectrum Using Magnetic Field Strength
EM Pulse Modulation
Spatial light modulator
Electro-optic modulator
Vendors
PicoQuant
Research Media & Cybernetics
Laser Focus World
Photonics Online
Goodrich, SUI - InGaAs Near and Shortwave Infrared Cameras, Arrays, and Photodiodes
Resource Pages
Phidgets, Inc. :: Unique USB Interfaces, Phidgets are an easy to use set of building blocks for low cost sensing and control from your PC.
Adapters see: Astronomy Links: Lense Adapters
Molecular Resolution
Molecular Expressions Microscopy Primers
The Society for Molecular Imaging
Microscope Interferometrics
interferometric measurement of surface microstructure
Piezoelectrics
Ceramic Piezoelectrics - Springs and Loudspeakers
Ångström (.1 nm) Range)
Hardware Sourcing
Atom Beams
STM
Electrochemical Tungsten Tip Making
Atom Moving
Super Cooling
Software
Resources
AFM
Quantum Detection Instrumentation
Bus and Peripheral Design
PCI(-E/-X) Board Building
HyperTransport Probingtm (used in AMD-64 NUMA Clusters)
USB
Fiber & USB 3.0
Parallel Port
Serial
Opto
Data Aquisition (DAQ)
Oscilloscopes
Building
Getting Started on Home Brewing an STM
STM English
Scanning Tunneling Microscopy (STM)
The Scanning Tunneling Electron Microscope
Design and Construction of a STM from parts you can find at a hardware store (almost)
Build Your Own Scanning Tunneling Microscope, Slashdot Page
Build Your Own Scanning Tunneling Microscope
STM Mechanics - Homebuilt Scanning Tunneling Microscope, Mechanical Design
The IAP/TU Wien STM Gallery
Principle of Scanning probe microscopy, piezo tips
Nanotechnology: The Homebrew STM Page
Ultra-Low Temperature Scanning Tunneling Microscopy
STM Gallery, IBM
Building
Print your atomic force microscope
How to build a Plastic-AFM head
MRMF (Magentic Resonance Force Microscopes)
sci.nanotech archives, contains discussion of MRFMs
MRMF, Los Almos Page on MRMF
Solid State Quantum Computation, Hammel Group at Ohio State's page on MRMF
I/O - Interface Types, Logic Analysers, Oscilloscopes
Hardware Book, Internet's largest free collection of connector pinouts and cable description
Beyond Logic, Port Programming Resources
Linux I/O port programming mini-HOWTO
Standard PC Cabling Pin-out Diagrams, from Dick Perron's PC Hardware Informatio
High-impedance voltmeter, great overview of the process
LoPIC Logic Probe
Data Acquisition & Control, Australian
Embedded Real-Time Linux for Instrument Control and Data Logging
High Frequency Measurements Web Page
Standard PC storage devices and I/O connector pinouts., from Dick Perron's PC Hardware Inf
ormation page
Handbook of hardware pinouts, cables schemes and connectors layouts
PCI-Sig
PCMCIA Homepage, The Worldwide Organization for Modular Peripherals
ISA bus pinout
PLX Technology, offers a wide-range of standard I/O interconnect products including USB controllers, PCI and PCI-X Bridges...
An Experiment to Build a PCI Board
Dragon PCI FPGA board, KNJN.com
PCI Bridge , Open Cores
Connectorless Probing Enables HyperTransport Debug at 2.4Gb/s
Hacking the Xbox
bunnie's game box hacking page, including the Xbox
bunnie's adventures hacking the Xbox
Hardware Hacking with Andrew "Bunnie" Huang. Notes from O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference 2003 tutorial, text-only
... also see Hardware Links: FPGA
USB Protocol Analysers, beyondlogic.org
usbsnoop
ellisys explorer 200
USBee EX Experimenters Board
FTDI
Dontronics :: USB Modules & Add-Ons
USB Micro
USB 2.0 interface board
USB - Embedded System Design and Construction
The Uncomplicated Universal Usb board (USB 2.0 interface)
Using the TRUST Spacecam 380 as an USB 2.0 interface
Linux USB, Welcome to the home of the Linux USB Project
USB Complete Third Edition, Jan Axelson's Lakeview Research
USB.org
Everything USB
USB Developer
Digg - USB 3.0 Brings Optical Connection in 2008
Cheapi2c uses your PC CPU and printer port to perform realtime snoop ing of a standard 100kHz I2C bus with 100% capture
LED Meter
4 - Channel Digital Logic Analyzer and 5 Channel Digital Oscilloscope by using PC Parallel Port
A logic analyzer using the PC's parallel port.
Reverse-engineering the FB330P and FB630P scanners
How to build a 24 line parallel interface (.PDF file)
Parallel Port Relay Interface
Data Acquisition System, Maxim 186IC based device
WebEE Tutorials : Parallel, Detailed Parallel Port Doc
PC KITS-tutorial page on parallel ports
Interfacing the IBM PC Parallel Printer Port
Interfacing to the IBM-PC Parallel Printer Port, nicely laid out graphic
Warp Nine Engineering - The IEEE 1284 Experts, includes explanation of Parallel Port I/O cycles
Controlling the PC Parallel Port, EE Guides
Parallel Port Page by Juan Carlos Galarza Roca
Parallel Port Central, include FAQs, book links
Parallel Port Output, Tomi Engdahl's Electronics Page on Parallel Ports
The PC parallel port, from The Joe Forster-STA homepage
HP LaserJet, Deskjet and Color LaserJet Series Printers - HP Statement of Compliance for the IEEE 12
84 Parallel Interface
Simple circuit and program to show how to use PC parallel port output capabilities
debugger I'm working on
Simple parallel port output program for Linux, code example from Tomi Engdahl's Electronics Page on Parallel Ports
The Linux 2.4 Parallel Port Subsystem, Tim Waugh's guide on Redhat site
Writing a parport Device Driver
Archives of the linux-parport mailing list
Interfacing a Mac Serial Port to RS-232 Lab Equipment,
includes detail on tools for hardware interfacing
Serial Port Programming for POSIX Operating Systems
Real-Time Linux driver for the serial port
ePanorama.net: Optoelectronics and optics page
Ronja is a free technology project for reliable optical data links with a current range of 1.4km and a communication speed of 10Mbps full duplex.
The IO project : Interconnect by Optics
Parallel optics: the solution for high-speed interconnects
Infra Red
Hacker Technologies
Data Acquisition (DAQ) and Control Solutions - UEI
USB-DUX
High Speed Data Acquisition and Trigger
comedi, linux control and measurement device interface
Data Acquisition with Comedi
Data Acquisition with FreeBSD
Chase Scientific Company, Innovators in Ultra-High-Speed Embedded Instrumentation
Spectrum
High Frequency Op Amp Circuits
Sound card based multimeter
Multimeter, Multimeter is a simple command line application that reads values from digital multimeter like Metex 4650CR or ME-11 using the serial interface. It may work for similar DMMs too.
Probe Boards
Impossible Enterprises, featuring an octal probe board
Probe Picks
Cheap High Impedance Probe
1 µ probe tip
Probing
Tamper Links, excellent link list, Cambridge U.
Circuits and Schematics
All About Circuits: Waveform Analysis
oscope.zip, includes schematics for a PC Oscilloscope
Resources
Electronics, Rancid Bacon
Oscilloscope - u32.net
Slashdot | Cheap PC Oscilloscopes - Any Recommendations?
Commercial
Bitscope = PC Oscillloscopes and Analyzers
Elan & USB
DS-1000 PC-based DSO with 200MHz analogue bandwidth
XYZs of Oscilloscopes, from Tektronix
New and Refurbished Test Equipment, also includes chip etching equipment
Circuits and Schematics
FPGA Based (Kit, etc)
Hands-on - A digital oscilloscope, USB does 125Mhz-150Mhz
Soundcard Based
Linux Through an Oscilloscope
Oscope
A PC with Sound Card as an Audio Waveform Generator, a Two-Channel Digital Oscilloscope and a Spectrum Analyzer
Software
VXI11 Ethernet Protocol for Linux or: How to talk to your Agilent or Tektronix Scope from Linux over LAN
Linux Drivers for Tektronix Oscilloscopes and Arbitrary Function Generators
Linux Through an Oscilloscope, Linux Gazette
xscope for Linux
Cthugha, "An Oscilloscope On Acid"
ETC - Linux for M621, LxScope Linux Oscilloscope software
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