T.C. Phelps wrote:

> I'd be willing to shell out for this book, if it's
> that good -- but I have a question (since you describe
> it as a good introductory text).

A good introductory but not to everyone :)

> I recently finished
> an EE degree and after designing a few PCBs have found
> that a lot of PCB/circuit design relies on knowing
> little tricks, simplifications, and circuit building
> blocks that have already been designed and are well
> understood.

So I think this book was written for you ;)

See what can be read in the preface to both editions of this book. The
whole text worth reading but I would like to cite some of it that may
explain why this book received and continue to do so since 1989, such an
enthusiastic reception by electronic practitioners:

    This book evolved from a set of notes written to accompany a
    one-semester course in laboratory electronics at Harvard. That
    course has a varied enrollment - undergraduates picking up skills
    for their eventual work in science or industry, graduate students
    with a field of research clearly in mind, and advanced graduate
    students and postdoctoral researchers who suddenly find themselves
    hampered by their inability to "do electronics".

Paul Horowitz and Windfield Hill went on later with:

    We collaborated in writing this book with the specific intention
    of combining the discipline of circuits design engineer with the
    perspective of a practicing experimental physicist and teacher of
    electronics. Thus, the treatment in this book reflects our philo-
    sophy that electronics, as currently practiced, is basically a
    simple art, a combination of some basic laws, rules of thumb and
    a large bag of tricks.

I wish you could read the whole thing yourself but hope this extract
will show you the purpose pursued by the authors.

You can find more comments on this book at:
http://www.artofelectronics.com/


Gaston Gagnon

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