  | Book Details Title: The Art of Electronics: The x Chapters |
Book DescriptionBook Description The x-Chapters is the missing pieces of The Art of Electronics, to be used either as its complement, or as a direct route to exploring some of the most exciting and oft-overlooked topics in advanced electronic engineering. Students, researchers and practitioners will find here techniques and circuits that are unavailable elsewhere. Read more About the Author Paul Horowitz is Professor of Physics at Harvard University, where he originated the Laboratory Electronics course in 1974 from which emerged The Art of Electronics (1980). He was one of the pioneers of the search of intelligent life beyond the Earth, and one of the leaders behind SETI. Other research interests include observational astrophysics, x-ray and particle microscopy, and optical interferometry. He is the author of some 200 scientific articles and reports, has consulted widely for industry and government, and is the designer of numerous electronic and photographic instruments.Winfield Hill is by inclination an electronics circuit-design guru. He has held positions at numerous organisations, including Harvard University’s Electronic Design Center and Sea Data Corporation. Currently he is the Director of Electronics Engineering at the Rowland Institute at Harvard where he has designed some 250 electronic instruments. Recent interests include high-voltage RF (to 15kV) and precision high-current electronics (to 6000A). Read more Customers Review: 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behavior, and written in a very practical, usable style.The problem with a paper version like this is that it can be out of date pretty quickly when they mention specific part numbers or pricing – at least for some items.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. | |
28 reviews