The Art of Electronics

The Art of Electronics

"The Art of Electronics", by Paul Horowitz and Winfield Hill, is a popular textbook dealing with analog and digital electronics. It is sometimes referred to as the "electronics bible", and remains a popular text, although its most recent (2nd) edition was released in 1989cite book
author=Paul Horowitz and Winfield Hill
title=The Art of Electronics
edition=Second edition
year=1989
publisher=Cambridge University Press
isbn=9780521370950
] .

The text is information-dense, but uses a light, informal tone which makes it more accessible. At over 1000 pages, it covers virtually all areas of electronics design, from basic DC voltage, current, and resistance, to active filters and oscillators, to digital electronics, including microprocessors and digital bus interfacing. It also includes discussions of such often-neglected areas as high-frequency, high-speed design techniques and low-power applications.

The book is particularly useful because of its many example circuits. In addition to having examples of good circuits, it also has examples of bad ideas, with excellent discussions of what makes the good designs good and the bad ones bad. It is a cross between a textbook and reference manual, though without the chapter-end questions and exercises which are often found in textbooks.

There is also a complementary text, "The Student Manual for 'The Art of Electronics" by Thomas C. Hayes and Paul Horowitz. The Student Manual, while referencing the main text extensively, is designed specifically to help people learn electronics. It contains material such as lab exercises and explanatory text supplements aimed at the student. In contrast, "The Art of Electronics" contains tables, equations, diagrams, and other material practitioners use for reference.

External links

* [http://www.artofelectronics.com/ Official web page]

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