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Not recommened for the automotive gear head. One person found this helpful. Good books on automotive electronics are hard to find. Must not be much of a market for them. This book, Understanding Automotive Electronics, written by a professor at the University of Michigan, is by far the best book on this topic that I have found. Still, it leaves a lot to be desired.
Published in , this book is the sixth edition. Even in , much of it was outdated and should have heavily edited or dropped. The discussion of global positioning systems GPS , for example, puts their adoption in cars well into the future. But the car I bought in has a very nice GPS system. The section of the book on GPS systems was outdated even before the book went into print. That's one topic I hoped this book would cover. That it focuses more on technology from the s and s was a disappointment.
A complete rewrite of the book in would have been very valuable. But you have to take what you can get. I'll take this book. In my opinion, there's enough here to make it worth reading. Electronics has taken over control of the modern automobile, so much so that it is difficult to tinker with the car as we used to do in the old days, since all of the electronics is contained in embedded systems and diagnostics are usually performed by a PC. All the key functions are, or can be, controlled with electronics which has greatly benefited the driver.
There are 11 chapters and over pages illustrated with diagrams, circuits and performance graphs, but very few photographs of the electronics.
The chapters step the reader through fundamentals of combustion, controls, engine and motion control and diagnostics. After each chapter there is a multiple choice quiz relating to the chapter.
You will have to read the text in detail to answer the questions, not speed-read. It's an interesting textbook and ideal for education in the topic. I found it to be easy to read and informative. The book shows how the electronics works to improve the safety and performance of the automobile. There is little coverage on the type of componentry, wiring or reliability of different forms of assembly, so the book is only of interest to manufacturing engineers if they want to understand the reasons behind the circuits built into automobiles.
Instead there are quite a few block diagrams, equations, snippets of assembly language code, and even explanations of more elementary electronic devices and systems that will probably be most interesting to the electrical engineer who is interested in how electronics controls the modern automobile. The book title, Understanding Automotive Electronics, is an understatement. This book, in chapters 5, 6, and 7, gives one of the best explanations of modern engine control systems I have ever read.
These chapters alone are worth the price of the book. Still, it leaves a lot to be desired. Published in , this book is the sixth edition. Even in , much of it was outdated and should have heavily edited or dropped. The discussion of global positioning systems GPS , for example, puts their adoption in cars well into the future.
But the car I bought in has a very nice GPS system.
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The section of the book on GPS systems was outdated even before the book went into print. That's one topic I hoped this book would cover. That it focuses more on technology from the s and s was a disappointment. A complete rewrite of the book in would have been very valuable. But you have to take what you can get.
I'll take this book. In my opinion, there's enough here to make it worth reading. Feedback If you need help or have a question for Customer Service, contact us. Would you like to report poor quality or formatting in this book? Click here Would you like to report this content as inappropriate? Click here Do you believe that this item violates a copyright? Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations.
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This book, Understanding Automotive Electronics, written by a professor at the University of Michigan, is by far the best book on this topic that I have found. Still, it leaves a lot to be desired. Published in , this book is the sixth edition. Even in , much of it was outdated and should have heavily edited or dropped. The discussion of global positioning systems GPS , for example, puts their adoption in cars well into the future.
But the car I bought in has a very nice GPS system. The section of the book on GPS systems was outdated even before the book went into print. That's one topic I hoped this book would cover. That it focuses more on technology from the s and s was a disappointment. A complete rewrite of the book in would have been very valuable.
But you have to take what you can get. I'll take this book. In my opinion, there's enough here to make it worth reading.
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