Learning the Art of Electronics: A Hands-On Lab Course

I have not gotten into the second edition, but I have done the first edition. It was excellent, and the updates to the second edition was exactly what I was hoping would be upgraded in the second edition. As I was going through the first edition I was thinking the digital section was a bit out dated but the second edition appears to have have tackled this problem. I am happy to see the authors are taking active steps in keeping the book in modern times. Truly a great time to be alive. Can't wait to see what this book holds.

I rated this five stars -- but I may be biased since I am a co-author of this edition. There aren't any reviews yet since the second edition has only been available for a few weeks. However, you can read reviews of the first edition at https://www.amazon.com/Learning-Art-Electronics-Hands-Course/dp/0521177235/. This edition improves on the previous one by updating the digital half of the book to include an FPGA (rather than a PAL) and replaces the 8051 with a modern ARM microcontroller programmed in C using a full IDE. It also includes heavy emphasis on finite state machine techniques for both hardware and software design and uses a Real Time Operating System to integrate tasks in the final uController project.