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The Art of Electronics Hardcover – March 30 2015

by Paul Horowitz (Author), Winfield Hill (Author)
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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.
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"Who among us has not kept a cherished copy of AoE on our workbench throughout our careers? Engineers, hackers and makers of all stripes, rejoice for the third edition ... has been worth the wait! Packed with tons of delicious knowledge to navigate electronics in both work and hobby. An encyclopedia of electronics knowledge, [The Art of Electronics] is a pleasure to read through for tips and tricks and is an unbeatable resource! Take a day out to read a chapter - you will learn things you didn't even know you didn't know. Or, refer to the pinouts, diagrams, and techniques as necessary to guide you through a difficult project. If you think electrical engineering is magical then you must pick up this tome!"
Limor 'Ladyada' Fried, Adafruit Industries^"First of all, after I forklifted [Chapter 5] onto my reading table, I sat down and read it. It is simply spectacular. That may be overly exclamatory language but it is the only appropriate verbiage I can summon. Spectacular, deep and wide. I especially like the comments about interpreting specifications and the deconstruction of the Agilent voltmeters is just, well, wonderful."
Jim Williams, Linear Technology Corp^"Wow. Chapter 5 details every circuit artifact that I've encountered in the past thirty years in a through, pragmatic, and straightforward way. My only 'twinge' is that [it] disclosed and explained (in glorious graphical detail and with real part numbers) many topics that I thought were my personal trade secrets ... I love the plots. I know that it must take an enormous effort to collate all of the device characteristics. It's worth the effort. The way ... [it] present[s] the data allows the reader to get terrific perspective on a lot of landscape in a single view. Nice work."
John Willison, founder, Stanford Research Systems^"Horowitz and Hill's third edition beautifully upgrades their earlier work, with substantial updates to detail, and without compromise to style, content, or technical quality. Like the second edition I've used for years, it is laser-focused on the working engineer. Delivered in folksy Horowitz and Hill style, it is rich with the kind of nitty-gritty information that's invaluable to circuit designers and manufacturers, much of which is absent (or difficult to find) elsewhere. This new book is a superb update, one which I'm sure will be treasured by those close to the art of analog circuitry."
Walt Jung, author, IC Op-Amp Cookbook^"This epic work was created by two of the best experts in the field (with many others providing information). It defines the current state of the art in electronics ... Most parts of the book will continue to be relevant for several decades. The 1124 pages (even more densely packed with highly accurate information than the pages of the second edition) will delight everyone who already knows about electronics ... It is almost certain that you will like the third edition even more than the second ... The information that is now available in the book is absolutely fantastic, both the quality and the quantity, and you should get [it] as soon as you can ..."
Wise Warthog blog^"If you are looking for a handy and very practical electronics reference book, this is a good one. I think you will enjoy it. Thanks to Horowitz and Hill for updating this classic."
Lou Frenzel, Electronic Design (electronicdesign.com)^"If you are a hobbyist or maker who wants to acquire or improve a well-rounded knowledge of electronics then The Art of Electronics is an ideal book for you. It starts from the very basics of voltage, current and resistance without getting heavily dependent on physics theory or mathematics, and proceeds to cover a huge variety of interesting topics. For electronic engineering students, [this book] ... will help you develop the intuitive understanding, which will make it easier to put the maths in context, and it will be invaluable when you do practical work for design projects. The Art of Electronics brilliantly conveys its authors' enthusiasm and experience of practical engineering and is an inspiring read. Many people have described the earlier editions as the best book on electronics, so [this third edition] had a lot to live up to; fortunately, it does not disappoint. It deserves its gold cover."
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The new gold standard and indispensable reference for anyone, student or researcher, professional or amateur, who works with electronic circuits.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Cambridge University Press; 3rd edition (March 30 2015)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 1220 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0521809266
  • Item weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 kg
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 21 x 6.6 x 29 cm
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    From the book's 1st page: Winfield Hill is by inclination an electronics circuit-design guru. After dropping out of the Chemical-Physics graduate program at Harvard University, and obtaining an E.E. degree, he began his engineering career at Harvard's Electronics Design Center. After 7 years of learning electronics at Harvard he founded Sea Data Corporation, where he spent 16 years designing instruments for Physical Oceanography. In 1988 he was recruited by Edwin Land to join the Rowland Institute for Science. The institute subsequently merged with Harvard University in 2003. As director of the institute's Electronics Engineering Lab he has designed some 500 scientific instruments. Recent interests include high-voltage RF (to 15 kV), high-current pulsed electronics (to 1200 A), low-noise amplifiers (to sub-n V and pA), and MOSFET pulse generators.

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    Paul Horowitz (born 1942) is an American physicist and electrical engineer, known primarily for his work in electronics design, as well as for his role in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (see SETI).

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Adrian
5.0 out of 5 stars This is THE book
Reviewed in Canada on September 3, 2024
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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.
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Jean
5.0 out of 5 stars Impressive !
Reviewed in Canada on May 2, 2020
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A reference book for everyone who is interested in electronics. Outstanding contents.

Am I glad I patiently waited for the final edition with the rewritten chapters. Instead of rushing to get the first one.

Also glad I did not fall for the half-price knock-offs also sold on Amazon which reportedly fell apart when the counterfeit copy was opened. At half the price it look too good to be true and basic prudence saved me from wasting my money on a counterfeit. Amazon finally pulled these off these after multiple complaints.

The genuine book is high quality and is well worth the full price.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Buy this book
Reviewed in Canada on March 28, 2017
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This is actually a terrific book, a textbook. It not written at all like a textbook. These guys originally must have written this to achieve two objectives: 1) to ensure that their students actually "got it" and
2) to make sure that they (the instructors) achieved this goal with a minimal of effort and a maximum of effect.
To do the above the instructors really had to know both their students and the material to the degree that they could cut through the difficult theory and prove it empirically.
I had a lot of trouble learning this stuff in university and always felt it was just too difficult to bother with. This book has changed all that, 40 years later. Damn.
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Bob McG
5.0 out of 5 stars This is THE definitive book on electronics !
Reviewed in Canada on May 7, 2023
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If you ever need a great text on electronics theory and practice, then this is it !
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5.0 out of 5 stars Top quality
Reviewed in Canada on January 22, 2024
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Top publication quality, it would be better if it was printed in color.
Great content, thank you very much!
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4.0 out of 5 stars Great content, poor binding
Reviewed in Canada on April 5, 2023
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The depth of the content and the authors’ accessible writing style are second to none, but the quality of the binding is lacking. My first copy arrived with the first set of pages detaching from the binding. My replacement copy has a similar problem at other locations in the book.
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Reviewed in Canada on April 5, 2023
The depth of the content and the authors’ accessible writing style are second to none, but the quality of the binding is lacking. My first copy arrived with the first set of pages detaching from the binding. My replacement copy has a similar problem at other locations in the book.
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Destin
5.0 out of 5 stars More then a class book. Perfect for everyone.
Reviewed in Canada on November 10, 2018
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The description fit the book, the authors really focus on the comprehension of the reader. I’ve done a technical in electronic and now studying electrical engineering, it made me understood concept I had trouble with for years. If you’re a beginner in electronic or a hobbyist do not worry, this book makes a great job at explaining and simplifying. Worth the 100$.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A top-notch book and more than I'll ever need to know
Reviewed in Canada on September 16, 2018
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This is a top-notch book on electronics. The first part is theory and covers everything that I learned in electronics school 40 years ago. Wow. As far as I can see, this is not a "Here are 100 little projects that you can build to learn electronics" book, despite the title. Same with the Practical Electronics for Inventors book (which seems a tad lighter in the theory section than this book). Both of them get into differential and integral calculus math a bit for those that are interested. (Wow again; I took whole university courses on those kinds of calculus techniques!). Both these books give crash review summaries on what you need to know for the book.
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5.0 out of 5 stars This Book Lives on my Workbench
Reviewed in the United States on June 25, 2023
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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.
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João Paulo Fernandes Bonfim
5.0 out of 5 stars Melhor livro de eletrônica
Reviewed in Brazil on December 19, 2022
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Livro Referência no campo da eletrônica. Cobre praticamente toda a área da eletrônica.
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Ahmed Ibrahim nagm
1.0 out of 5 stars damaged book
Reviewed in Egypt on October 24, 2024
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damaged book
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Emil
5.0 out of 5 stars Nice paper and printing
Reviewed in Germany on August 19, 2024
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I was worried because of other comments about poor quality. But I received a book in decent condition, nice paper and printing. Overall there is a slight bend and tear in the upper right corner, but considering where it comes from, how massive is this book and the price compared to others offering the same book for the range between 105 - 165 euros, it is a perfect choice.
So I give 5 stars as I can safely recommend the seller and the book itself.
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Jose Luis Roche Ruiz
5.0 out of 5 stars Muy bien..
Reviewed in Spain on June 7, 2024
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Libro estupendo.
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