Am I ever going to get used to more advanced electronic circuits? I'm in third year automation engineering and every time I see a new circuit diagram I just take it at face value that it works, I've stopped questioning why capacitors and diodes are where they are or what function they perform, because it seems the professors themselves usually do not give in-depth reasoning as to why they're there. At least with pneumatic circuit diagrams or wiring diagrams, the logic is clear, but with electronic circuit diagrams it's like:>"it just works".
>>16895667Electricity is naturally kinda messy at small scales and high frequencies. A lot of the times when you see some mess of passive components with no obvious reason for existing, it went something like this:>make first iteration of board>some intermittent failures start happening due to some noise on some loop>"fuck it, just toss a little surface mount cap there and see if that fixes it.">problem solvedIt's much more important that you're able to break the whole circuit down into discreet functional blocks than it is that you can identify the exact purpose for each individual component within it.And if you're able to recreate those functions with your own design and then come up with your own solutions to the weird hiccups that may arise when you slap them together, well at that point you're about as competent as any other engineer.
