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4.4/5 Flipkart Media type Print (hardcover) ISBN 978-0-521-37095-0 Originally published 1980 Subject Electronics | 4.3/5 Goodreads Language English (US) Pages 1125 OCLC 19125711 Page count 1,125 Country United States of America | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Publication date 1980 (1st ed.)
1989 (2nd ed.)
2015 (3rd ed.) Publisher Cambridge University Press Electronics books Practical Electronics for Invent, Encyclopedia of Electronic, Microelectronic circuits, How to Diagnose and Fix E, Getting Started in Electronics | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Art of Electronics, by Paul Horowitz and Winfield Hill, is a popular textbook dealing with analog and digital electronics. The first edition was published in 1980, and the 1989 second edition has been regularly reprinted. The third edition was published in 2015.
Contents
Overview
The book covers many areas of circuit 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 includes many example circuits. In addition to having examples of good circuits, it also has examples of bad ideas, with discussions of what makes the good designs good and the bad ones bad. It can be described as 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, Student Manual for The Art of Electronics by Thomas C. Hayes and Paul Horowitz. The Student Manual, while referring to the main text extensively, is designed specifically to teach electronics. It contains laboratory 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.
Third edition
As of April 7, 2015, the Third Edition is available from Amazon. The author is accepting reports of errata and publishing them, to be corrected in future revisions.
The 2nd edition is in some respects out of date, referencing obsolete electrical parts and omitting technologies developed since it was written. Because of this, the third edition was widely anticipated, leading to perennial rumors of its impending release. In 2006 the third edition appeared in some online databases with ISBN 0-521-80926-6, prompting further speculation. However, Winfield Hill responded with a statement that the book's arrival was still years off.
On Christmas Day 2011 Winfield Hill responded with a statement saying that in January 2012, 15 chapters will have been submitted leaving five chapters. In a subsequent public update in September 2012, Winfield Hill confirmed that the authors were hoping to have the book publicly available "early in 2013", and suggested that as of northern Autumn 2012, the manuscript was still incomplete.
Correspondence with the author indicated by September 2013 that writing had finished and review and typesetting was next and he expected to finish around mid 2014. Further correspondence in mid July 2014 indicated that image editing was three-fourths complete, after which a last pass on text edits would be done and the index would be created. Around the same time the page layout would be performed followed by the galley proof to study and approve.
In March 2015 Cambridge University Press indicated April 2015 as publishing date and the Table of Contents of the 3rd Edition was released.