Art of Electronics ebook

The thoroughly revised and updated Second Edition of the hugely successful The Art of Electronics is available now! From the reviews of the First Edition:'The best self-teaching book and reference book in electronics ... The beauty and fun of electronics shows through.' Radio Communication 'Full of clever circuits and sharp insights, but with a surprising minimum of mathematics ... The depth is genuine, as is the richness of examples, data and apt tricks.'Scientific American 'Far and away the finest book on the subject of electronics ... in the last decade. I cannot recommend this book highly enough to anyone whose research or experiments require some electronics.' Optical Engineering Changes in the new edition:

• Totally rewritten chapters on microcomputers and microprocessors (using the IBM PC and the 68008)
• Substantially revised chapters on digital electronics (including PLDs, and the new HC and AC logic families), op-amps and precision design (reflecting the availability of excellent FET-input op-amps), construction techniques (including CAD/CAM).
• Every table has been revised and many new ones added.
• A rewritten chapter on FETs and an all-new chapter on micropower design.
• New sections on active filter designs, switched-capacitor filters, quadrature oscillators, low-dropout regulators, switching supplies, crowbars, isolation amplifiers, SCR latchup, 'ground bounce,' dynamic power dissipation, optoelectronics, RS-232 interfacing, modems, memory chips, schematic capture, AM detection, battery characteristics, sensor linearization

Paul Horowitz is Professor of Physics at Harvard University, where he teaches physics and electronics. He originated Harvard's Laboratory Electronics course, now in its fifteenth year. His research interests include observational astrophysics, x-ray and particle microscopy, optical interferometry, and the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. He is the author of some sixty scientific articles and reports, has consulted widely for industry and government, and is the designer of numerous electronic and photographic instruments. Winfield Hill is Research Scientist and Director of Electronic Engineering at the Rowland Institute for Science (founded by Edwin Land), where he studies the physiology and phenomenology of human color vision. He was formerly at Harvard University, where he designed over one hundred electronic and scientific instruments; he then founded Sea Data Corporation, where as chief engineer he designed some fifty oceanographic instruments. He has collaborated in numerous deep ocean experiments, and has authored a dozen scientific and technical articles.

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