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The Art of Electronics
Product Review "Full of clever circuits and sharp insights, but with a surprising minimum of mathematics The depth is genuine, as is the richness of examples, data and apt tricks." Scientific American "Far and away the finest book on the subject of electronics in the last decade. I cannot recommend this book highly enough to anyone whose research or experiments require some electronics." Optical Engineering "A delightful bookThe circuits actually work, the schematics are all readable." Review of Scientific Instruments "This book is filled with a awesome diversity of valuable information. More importantly, this book is a joy to readIt's not at all like studying--it's too much fun." EDN (News Edition) "This book provides a painless way to learn about electronic design. It is also a good read for those already experienced in electronics." EDN (Magazine Edition) "..it comes as close as any book we've seen to fulfilling the promise inherent in its titlewritten as though to educate the novice, but practicing engineers will encounter many useful tidbits they didn't know, hadn't thought about, or had long forgotten." Analog Dialogue "a refreshingly simple, practical and comprehensive textbook on the subject of electronic circuit behavior and designone of the few contemporary practical reference handbooks on electronic design basics." Physics in Canada "A lovely book, it covers a wealth of electronic topics in a very readable style." Richard Morin, Sunexpert "The second volume carries on une grande tradition as well as adding 400 new pages to the original (already massive) text. It is, without doubt, the book for the practical engineer. No cerebral theorizing here, no long sections of abstruse mathematical derivations; just page after page of solid empirical engineering. It is also light hearted and anecdotal, with some wonderful pages of terrible ciruit 'howlers' that the authors have encountered." John V. Hatfield, IJEEE "an great general electronic textbook." Poptronics "The best self-teaching book and reference book in electronics The beauty and fun of electronics shows through." Radio Communication "Another electronics textbook that became an international best-seller the book is renowned for presenting the techniques that circuit designers actually use." IEEE Spectrum Product Description This is the thoroughly revised and updated second edition of the hugely successful The Art of Electronics. Widely accepted as the authoritative text and reference on electronic circuit design, both analog and digital, this book revolutionized the teaching of electronics by emphasizing the methods actually used by circuit designers -- a combination of some basic laws, rules of thumb, and a large bag of tricks. The result is a largely nonmathematical treatment that encourages circuit intuition, brainstorming, and simplified calculations of circuit values and performance. The new Art of Electronics retains the feeling of informality and easy access that helped make the first edition so successful and popular. It is an ideal first textbook on electronics for scientists and engineers and an indispensable reference for anyone, professional or amateur, who works with electronic circuits. Reader Reviews From the early 1980s, I've read both the first and second editions over 3 times and the heuristics they use remain second to none, years later. This is THE book of Electronics for non-engineers. With technology moving at a logarithmic phase, its a tribute to their presentation that AoE continues to be sold without a recent update and their keen circuit sense shows that many of the technologies they focused on remain available today. Since the second edition cheap computer circuit simulators, I use Electronics Workbench but many are available, can help clarify areas were H&H may leap and bound when discussing circuits [ explanations can still be found by cross references the book via the index.] Design software makes breadboarding less necessary for testing concepts. Choice of software depends on cost and the sophistication of your design. This book is not for the casual tinkerer, kit assembler, or an extended version of '1001 electronic circuits.' It turns astute readers into circuit designers, not everyone is cut out for that field. Its been a while since I read Steve Ciarcia in Byte, thought of Heathkit, saw an issue of Radio or Popular Electronics, but DigiKey remains a key supplier, Radio Shack remains the 'quick fix' and H&H lives on. I rarely have time to build circuits on custom PC boards these days, but AoE has given me a cognitive lifetime warranty on all devices I've opened that screwed tightly shut had a sticker that said " ... VOID IF REMOVED." For the next edition, could authors PLEASE beg the publishers to print the book on acid free paper? My copy is terribly jaundiced. Comment (1) | | (Report this)
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