Practical Audio Electronics

7  |  Circuit Diagrams

Circuit diagrams in the broad sense can cover a wide range of different circuit or system representations. At the most abstract, block diagrams can be used to conceptualise the high level functional blocks in a system, and the connections and signal flow between these blocks. Such representations may be referred to as block diagrams, functional block diagrams, signal flow diagrams, connection diagrams, etc. Moving to a more detailed design, the schematic diagram includes full details of which components are actually required in order to build the circuit in question, and the precise connections between all these components. Circuit schematics or schematic diagrams are often also referred to simply as circuit diagrams, ...