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Learning the Art of Electronics: Constant Current Reading from AoE and AoEx | In The Lab

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In this video we continue working through Learning the Art of Electronics. Today we don’t do any course work, rather we do selected readings about current sources found in the text.

Our reading from The Art of Electronics 3ed includes:

  • §2.2.6 pg 85-87 RE: resistor and BJT current sources
  • §4.2.5 pg 228-230 RE: op-amp current sources
  • §9.3.14 pg 620-623 RE: voltage-regulator current sources

And our reading from The Art of Electronics: The x Chapters includes:

  • §2x.2 pg 103-107 RE: Current-Source Problems and Fixes
  • §2x.3 pg 108-109 RE: The Cascode Configuration

Note that the 2nd edition of the x-Chapters is available for pre-order: The Art of Electronics: The x-Chapters 2.

When we continue next week we will do the various exercises we ran out of time to do today, and build some current sources, starting probably with a BJT version.

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The Art of Electronics

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I am having a conversation over on New Book Teardown #3: Learning The Art of Electronics: A Hands-On Lab Course (2016) | In The Lab and I was asked about the various books that carry the title “art of electronics”, they are:

  • The Art of Electronics by Paul Horowitz and Winfield Hill currently in its 3rd edition. This masterpiece of electronics literature was first published in 1980 and has been the go-to book for anyone interested in learning about electronics ever since. It’s the textbook for many university electronics courses. The 3rd edition of the book was published in 2015.
  • The Art of Electronics: The x-Chapters also written by Paul Horowitz and Winfield Hill is a collection of supplementary material that didn’t make it into the 3rd edition of The Art of Electronics.
  • Learning the Art of Electronics is a companion book that provides a structured introduction to electronics through a collection of 25 lab exercises. It’s the coursework for many university electronics courses. The 1st edition by Thomas C. Hayes and Paul Horowitz was published in 2016. The 2nd edition by Thomas C. Hayes and David Abrams comes out in 2025.