The Art of Electronics
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At long last, here is the thoroughly revised and updated third edition of the hugely successful The Art of Electronics. It is widely accepted as the best single authoritative book on electronic circuit design. In addition to new or enhanced coverage of many topics, the third edition includes 90 oscilloscope screenshots illustrating the behavior of working circuits, dozens of graphs giving highly useful measured data of the sort that is often buried or omitted in datasheets but which you need when designing circuits, and 80 tables (listing some 1650 active components), enabling intelligent choice of circuit components by listing essential characteristics (both specified and measured) of available parts. The new Art of Electronics retains the feeling of informality and easy access that helped make the earlier editions so successful and popular. It is an indispensable reference and the gold standard for anyone, student or researcher, professional or amateur, who works with electronic circuits.
From the Publisher
Publisher : Cambridge University Press; 3rd edition (April 9, 2015)
Language : English
Hardcover : 1220 pages
ISBN-10 : 0521809266
Item Weight : 5.1 pounds
Dimensions : 8.27 x 2.6 x 11.42 inches
Customers say
Customers find the book informative and useful for circuit design. They appreciate its clear writing in plain English, with applicable formulas and illustrations. The design style is well-presented and focuses on real circuits. Readers find the practical examples and hands-on approach useful for technicians. The book stays up to date and refreshed after each revision. However, opinions differ on whether it’s worth the price.
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D –
This Book Lives on my Workbench
Overall, this book is really great. It covers a wide range of topics. It presents some relevant theory and historical perspectives. And, it contains schematics of sample circuits and references part numbers of components currently in production. Keep in mind that the 3rd edition of this book was published in 2015 so there are definitely some more contemporary components out there but often they are still made by the same manufacturer.One of my favorite parts about owning this book though is that it has often been quicker, less frustrating, and more illuminating than doing a simple online search when I first sit down to design a circuit. Of course, this statement should be treated with a caveat: I am not a professional electrical engineer. I don’t have any educational nor vocational experience in analog electronics, and I’m not designing insanely complicated circuits. Most of what I have learned comes from this book, online forums, and technical datasheets from manufacturers.Because of this, I would say it is an incredibly beginner friendly text for those designing circuits. It does contain math, uses technical vocabulary, and asks you to read a schematic/graph/table, but these are all well labeled, accurately defined, and clearly depicted. I haven’t found myself lost because of a simple omission that the authors felt was too obvious to mention nor a poorly defined or ambiguous term. Needless to say, it sits happily on my workbench full of notes and a couple burn marks from my soldering iron.
Todd M. Bailey –
The most important and inspiring book on electronics there is.
To me, there is no one more important book in my life than H&H. I certainly do not know of a better electronics text (and I like electronics texts).Further, I believe my career in engineering boils down to a few distinct pushes in that direction before it was in my blood (and therefore too late). One of the big ones was getting a copy of AoE 2nd Edition in school.So, I would have bought the 3rd edtion no matter what.Incredibly, the 3rd edition has expanded many of the things I loved about the 2nd edition. The section on low noise design is much better and much more useful and it was pretty great before. The digital stuff is obviously much more relevant (although it may not stay that way). The “circuits from the masters” sections and the case studies of specific circuit designs are fascinating and useful (although I do miss the hilarious “bad circuits” sections).Finally, and most importantly, you can tell that H&H themselves were active engineers in the world between the last edition and this one — building circuits and solving problems and reading other works and being influenced by the work and scholarship and generally just continuing to rule. The dedication to Jim Williams showed that like me and all other analog nerds I know out there, they had been eagerly reading all his stuff. The section on microcontrollers exactly parallels some of the design ideas, biases, and gut feelings that I and other embedded engineers have taken the past fifteen years developing by plowing through all the exciting architecture and tool changes that have happened from EEPROM PICs to ARMs.Finally, the intellectual integrity, raw practicality, and HANDS-ON-ness of this book are unparalleled. If everybody were required to read this book before designing circuits, there would be a lot fewer crappy circuits out there.Oh, yeah. And it’s fun, too.
DataJanitor –
Genuine text
I worried when I ordered this that it might be a counterfeit. I was wary because several bloggers and YouTube channels had reviewed the problem with counterfeits of this book on Amazon. I didn’t want to risk buying a used copy for this reason, so I held my breath and ordered a new copy at the full discounted price. This also gave me pause because this edition of the book came out in 2015, that made it five years old.I need not have worried. The text I received was reprinted in 2019 (14th printing), just one year ago. Errata had been corrected, and the binding was pristine. I am very pleased.In case you’re not familiar, this text is considered the standard for a single semester course in modern electronics. It is full of practical circuits and advice that makes it an excellent reference. It discusses circuits in a way that is practical, not just mathematically rigorous.The only disappointing thing for me, a 65-year-old non-student and hobbyist, is that there is no appendix with solved exercises that I can check my work against. Most groups on the net are reluctant to publish the solutions because they think they’re helping someone do their homework. A few folks have started posting solutions only to give up before they even get through chapter 1. Oh, well.
Adrian –
If you are into electronics or want to learn, this book is a must. It cover a lot of topics and it’s quite on point and with direct usability if you want to design electronics. Keep in mind this is about electronics using the fundamental components (resistors, transistors, capacitors, etc.). If you are just a weekend Arduino “warrior” this book will not help you a lot. If you are a super beginner then this book might be a bit hard to digest but if you have a bit of basic understanding of current, resistance, voltage, etc. it is very useful.
Ahmed Ibrahim nagm –
damaged book
Jose Luis Roche Ruiz –
Libro estupendo.
Electro –
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Niklas –
Deckt Themen umfangreich ab, die auch nicht in der Vorlesung kamen. Vor allem analoge Elektronik wird hier sehr gut erklärt.