If you don't, you can probably still pick things up through osmosis, and you'd probably get the most out of it on your second pass through. The result is a largely nonmathematical treatment that encourages circuit intuition, brainstorming, and simplified calculations of circuit values and performance.

In addition to new or enhanced coverage of many topics, the third edition includes 90 oscilloscope screenshots illustrating the behavior of working circuits, dozens of graphs giving highly useful measured data of the sort that is often buried or omitted in datasheets but which you need when designing circuits, and 80 tables (listing some 1650 active components), enabling intelligent choice of circuit components by listing essential characteristics (both specified and measured) of available parts. By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. It makes one aware of how to do design, for example, a common emitter amplifier, as if it's a piece of cake. They have also included a section on bus converters: bi-directional DC converters, which can convert from one voltage to another, say 12V down to 5V, but also work in reverse, transparently.They also cover some unusual capacitive-feedback op-amp circuits, logarithmic amplifiers, and driving capacitive loads, among other short topics.

Use it along with a good book which covers the analysis of circuits and it should cover most of the needs of any practicing engineer. It is loaded with real life devilish down to details advice that one could try to dig days on end from other sources.Any fan of the book will certainly want to consider obtaining the latest release, The Art of Electronics: The x-Chapters, which follows the previous third edition of AoE from 2015. It is an ideal first textbook on electronics for scientists and engineers and an indispensable reference for anyone, professional or amateur, who works with electronic circuits.

For electronic engineering students, [this book] … will help you develop the intuitive understanding, which will make it easier to put the maths in context, and it will be invaluable when you do practical work for design projects. Whether it is dealt with in sufficient detail, or whether the author will actually be helpful, that may be different, but there is some commentary on nearly anything. Clear, direct, and well written with all the needed charts and drawings to illustrate needed concepts.It starts from the very basics of voltage, current and resistance without getting heavily dependent on physics theory or mathematics, and proceeds to cover a huge variety of interesting topics. I was about the only student who checked it out in 2 years – I think one other student managed to check it out when I was forbidden to renew it for a week. So, having had the book in hand — almost continuously — for a few days, I think I’ve got a decent idea of what it’s all about.