The Art of Electronics

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Summary: Fantastic
Review: This book is excellent. Well-written, and very thorough considering the amount and variety of material covered. This was a required book for a lab class I took, and now (after the class is over) I read it for fun in my spare time!

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Summary: Excellent Book, One Small Detail
Review: This is an outstanding book, but has one small detail: the authors had the superb idea of showing "bad circuits" so as to give an example of what you shouldn't do when designing circuits. The problem is they fell into the nasty habit of not letting you know exactly what the error is. Most of the time they are quite obvious, but on some of them it would be of great help if you can check your result. Besides this, it is a great book, easy to undersatnd and easy to follow, not meaning that it is of low level.

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Summary: The best practical analog design book I know of.
Review: A very practical, well written guide to analog design. It's unusual to find comprehensive sections on how NOT to design a circuit which are also well written. Although some part numbers are outdated, having real part numbers and comparisons of different part numbers and types is also very useful. Most parts manufacturers don't explain their parts in the detail that these guys do.

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Summary: Outstanding, brilliant, it should be 5 times the price.
Review: This was presented to us by two guys who want us to know what they know. Most other books are presented by their authors to show us how clever, sorry, how educated they are.

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Summary: Best book on electronics basics ever seen....
Review: Horowitz/Hill is actually the best on the market, and I can say this as an Engineering Electronics Technician with 15 years experience. I'm from Germany and sorry to say that the german translation from Elektor-Verlag is really worse translated, unfortunately ! So better read the English original.

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Summary: Excellent Book
Review: It is a bible for each radio amature in the Russia

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Summary: The 'Bible' for electronic design.
Review: This is my "desert isle" book for electronic design. Everything about it is perfect. I designed a whole 68000 based voltage calibrator just from what I learned in one of the book's chapters. The component selection tables have never failed to suggest a part for my application, although they are getting dated. The chapter on low power design is a must read. The index is perfect. I once had a problem in one of my designs where I saw "fuzz" on a signal. The system I was designing was a high precision voltage calibrator which consisted of several printed circuit boards plugged into connectors on a motherboard. I couldn't figure out where the "fuzz" was coming from, so I thought I might see what Horowitz and Hill could offer as a possible explanation. I looked up the word "fuzz" in the index and sure enough it pointed me to a page which mentioned that modular systems sometimes suffer from signals with "fuzz" on them due to the inductance of the connectors causing a lousy ground return. The chapter on op-amps is so, so simple, stressing the fact that when dealing with op-amps the most important things to remember are that no current flows into the input terminals and that the two input terminals are always at the same potential as long as you have negative feedback. You can go a long way in designing with op-amps just by remembering these two simple rules. The chapter on precision design was particularly applicable for me when I was designing for data acquistion. Common mode rejection, signal integrity, offset voltage, temperature affects are all explained. The authors have a very, very readible style, and a sense of humor too.

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Summary: superb technical book,a must in every electronic library.
Review: During the long years of university studies, an electrical or electronic engineering students deals with a great number of ambigous technical topics, that represents a challenge to him or her. In those moments, only a good text book, one with a real sense of what is the straight form of teach could make the difference. And "The Art of Electronics" is a book that no only makes the difference, it creates the diference

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Summary: The best electronics guide, bar none.
Review: I was referred to this by an EE friend of mine. I have had some experience in dabbling with electronics, and have tried several different guidebooks. I can say with absolute certainty that this one is the best I've seen. It says what needs to be said in a clear, concise manner, without blathering needlessly like many other textbooks tend to do.

It should be noted, though, that this is not a beginner's book. You should have a little bit of knowledge on the subject of electronics. If you do, you'll find yourself having many of those valuable "Oh, so that's how that works!"-moments.

Highly recommended!

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Summary: In a class by itself
Review: In my opinion this is the single best electronics book on the market. However, it is not for beginners. You should work through something like Hands-On Electronics or Ahmed and Spreadbury's textbook first.

The Art of Electronics is a second course in electronics for people who already know some basic circuit design but want to get much wider experience. It is strong on fully specified, buildable circuits and practical advice. The authors use a minimum of mathematics because - as working designers - they realize there's no point in doing high-precision calculations with low-precision numbers.