Practical Electronics: Components and Techniques (2015)

Appendix C. Bibliography

There are many excellent books available that cover all aspects of electronics, ranging from hands-on projects to advanced theory. This is a short list of some of them. I own copies of all of these, and over the years some of them have become a bit worn. Nonetheless, I don’t think I could pick a list of favorites, since I consider all of them to be valuable references and good sources of inspiration. If you want to acquire any of these for yourself, be sure to check and see if there is a more recent edition available, although you can save some money by opting for an older used book.

And, yes, there is indeed a shameless plug in here for my own book on instrumentation. Since I drew from it for writing this book, I felt it was proper to acknowledge it.

Electronics Theory

§ Ed. Walter Kester. Data Conversion Handbook. Newnes. 2004. ISBN 978-0750678414.

§ William Kleitz. Digital Electronics: A practical approach. Regents/Prentice Hall. 1993. ISBN 0-13-210287-0.

§ Paul Horowitz and Winfield Hill. The Art of Electronics, 2nd Edition. Cambridge University Press. 1989. ISBN 978-0521370950.

§ Richard Dorf (ed.). The Electrical Engineering Handbook. CRC Press LLC. 1997. ISBN 0-8493-8574-1.

§ Allan Hambley. Electronics, 2nd ed. Prentice Hall, 1999. ISBN 978-0136919827.

§ Randy Katz. Comtemporary Logic Design, 2nd Edition. Prentice Hall. 2004. ISBN 978-0201308570.

§ Arthur Williams and Fred Taylor. Electronic Filter Design Handbook, 4th Edition. McGraw-Hill. 2006. ISBN 978-0071471718.

Engineering and Design Topics

§ John Catsoulis. Designing Embedded Hardware O’Reilly. 2002. ISBN 978-0-596-00755-3.

§ Walter G. Jung. IC Op-Amp Cookbook. Howard W. Sams. 1986. ISBN 0-672-22453-4.

§ Don Lancaster. The CMOS Cookbook. Newnes. 1997. ISBN 978-0750699433.

Interfaces

§ Jan Axelson. Serial Port Complete. Lakeview Research LLC. 2007. ISBN 978-1931448-06-2.

§ Jan Axelson. Parallel Port Complete. Lakeview Research LLC. 2000. ISBN 978-0-9650819-1-7.

§ Jan Axelson. USB Complete. Lakeview Research LLC. 2007. ISBN 978-1931448086.

§ Benjamin Lunt. USB: The Universal Serial Bus. CreateSpace. 2012. ISBN 978-1468151985.

§ Nick Hunn. Essentials of Short-Range Wireless. Cambridge University Press. 2010. ISBN 978-0521760690.

§ Charles E. Spurgeon and Joann Zimmerman. Ethernet: The Definitive Guide, 2nd Edition O’Reilly Media, Inc. 2014. ISBN 978-1-4493-6184-6.

Construction Techniques and Projects

§ ARRL. ARRL Handbook. American Radio Relay League. 2013. ISBN 978-1625950017.

§ William I. Orr. Radio Handbook. Howard W Sams. 1979. ISBN 978-0672240348.

§ John H. Moore, Christopher C. Davis, Michael A. Coplan, and Sandra C. Greer. Building Scientific Apparatus. Cambridge University Press, 2009. ISBN 978-0521878586.

§ Erik Oberg (ed.). Machinery’s Handbook, 29th Edition. Industrial Press. 2012. ISBN 78-0831129002.

§ Christopher McCauley. Shop Reference for Students & Apprentices. Industrial Press. 2001. ISBN 978-0831130794.

Hands-On Learning

§ Howard Berlin. 555 Timer Applications Source Book. Howard W. Sams. 1979. ISBN 978-0672215384.

§ Charles Platt. Make: Electronics. Maker Media, Inc. 2009. ISBN 978-0-596-15374-8.

§ Forrest M. Mims III. Engineer’s Mini-Notebook Series, Volume 1 (MINI-1). Master Publishing. 2007.

§ Forrest M. Mims III. Engineer’s Mini-Notebook Series, Volume 2 (MINI-2). Master Publishing. 2007.

§ Forrest M. Mims III. Engineer’s Mini-Notebook Series, Volume 3 (MINI-3). Master Publishing. 2007.

§ Forrest M. Mims III. Engineer’s Mini-Notebook Series, Volume 4 (MINI-4). Master Publishing. 2007.

§ Mike Westerfield. Building iPhone and iPad Electronic Projects. O’Reilly Media, Inc. 2013. ISBN 978-1-449-36350-5.

Instrumentation

§ J. M. Hughes. Real-World Instrumention with Python. O’Reilly Media, Inc. 2010. ISBN 978-0596809560.

Microcontrollers

§ Massimo Banzi and Michael Shiloh. Getting Started with Arduino. O’Reilly Media, Inc. 2014. ISBN 978-1-4493-6333-8.

§ Emily Gertz and Patrick Di Justo. Environmental Monitoring with Arduino. O’Reilly Media, Inc. 2012. ISBN 978-1-449-31056-1.

§ Lucio Di Jasio. Programming 16-Bit PIC Microcontrollers in C, Second Edition. Newnes. 2011. ISBN 978-1856178709.

§ Lucio Di Jasio. Programming 32-bit Microcontrollers in C. Newnes. 2008. ISBN 978-0750687096.

§ Patrick Di Justo and Emily Gertz. Atmospheric Monitoring with Arduino. O’Reilly Media, Inc. 2013. ISBN 978-1-449-33814-5.

§ Jonathan Oxer and Hugh Blemings. Practical Arduino. Apress. 2009. ISBN 978-1-4302-2477-8.

§ Matt Richardson. Getting Started with Raspberry Pi. Maker Media, Inc. 2012. ISBN 978-1449344214.

Printed Circuit Boards

§ Jan Axelson. Making Printed Circuit Boards. Tab Books, Inc. 1993. ISBN 978-0830639519.

§ Matthew Scarpino. Designing Circuit Boards with EAGLE. Prentice Hall. 2014. ISBN 978-0133819991.