The Art of Electronics: The x Chapters
– 50 high-resolution photographs
– 24 tables, including MOSFETs, op-amps, drivers, and more
– more than 300 circuits, 300 graphs, 100 ‘scope screenshots, and dozens of drawings.
Reviews (110)
Not bad, but still better than most.
Overall this is a good reference for any practicing electrical / electronics engineer, especially in the analog realm. Good info on BJT / FET / OPAmp behavior, and written in a very practical, usable style. The problem with a paper version like this is that it can be out of date pretty quickly when they mention specific part numbers or pricing - at least for some items. It's certainly more up to date than "Art of Electronics" though. One pet peeve is the authors keep referencing figures / tables across different chapters and different books...So it sort of interrupts the flow if you're reading about one thing, and then have to go find the figure they just mentioned in a different chapter...or in some cases jump to a different book. The must have had to make concessions to keep the number of pages down. But still it can jump around a lot. Some of the details on various passive parts are missing, for instance PWW (precision wirewound) resistors are sort of missed, and where's you'd use those in a circuit that needs very low 1/f noise, etc. They talk about the advantages of using SMT parts - but gloss over the fact that sometimes through hole parts are required for high voltage or high board stress applications, etc. In the end it's clear the authors are good profs - but it's obvious their background is more academic, less real world industrial precision. Still, it's certainly one of the better references out there, and I highly recommend.
Beyond the Art of Electronics
This book covers advanced topics that didn't make to the main AoE book. There are 5 chapters: 1.- Real World Passive Components 2.- Advanced BJT topics 3.- Advanced FET topics 4.- Advanced topics in Operational Amplifiers 5.- Advanced topics in Power Control So, as you can see, its focused on analog electronics. The chapters are full of gold nuggets, the quality of the book is the same as the AoE 3rd edition, however the book is a lot thinner, its obvious, there is less content, still there are a total of 483 pages not counting the index which makes this a complete book on its own. It is definitely worth the money, if you like the original AoE dont hesitate to buy this one!
Amazing reference
There are a number of design problems I've faced that this book addresses in some capacity. It's impossible to have a perfect cookbook for the exact application you need, but the information laid out in the x Chapters are a good starting point to at least start playing around in simulation. The very first chapter is probably the most useful. This goes over the real-world performance of wires, resistors, capacitors, inductors, diodes, relays etc. There are rules of thumb to keep in mind, trade-offs between attenuation of competing parasitics, solutions to one problem may introduce a problem elsewhere in the design... I think this info will give any electrical engineer the ability to have a solid foundation on which to build intuition (after many years) of analog and digital design.
Great book!
No issues with the book - high quality paper, hard cover, same as main volume of the AoE.
Interesting book with a lot of information
All of the drawings/illustrations were crisp and easy to read. Interesting information. One complaint is there are very few design equations for the circuits described. Although, the circuit description are very detailed. I prefer that the details in the descriptions appear as design equations instead.
Great additional resource
No issues with book. It is a great resource to compliment the 3rd edition book and lab book. Quality binding. No issues with the quality of the print or paper. Pleasure to add this to my review.
A great book to accompany the Art of Electronics: Third Edition
This provides nice expansions for certain topics touched upon in the Art of Electronics: Third Edition. AoE is one of my favorite sources, and this is a wonderful addition.
Greater theory coverage.
These chapters cover in depth more electronics theory. I was hoping for some coverage of rf to a greater degree some discussion of mixers, circulators, rf maps but alas no. Still an excellent book.
terrible flimsy, see-through paper pages
For the price, I expect a book printed with better optical reading quality than the free yellow pages that gets dumped on my doorstep each year.
Excellent book
Excellent book. Works with the 3rd edition book as an excellent companion book.
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