PROFIBUS: A Pocket Guide by Ronald W. Mitchell (2003-10-24)

This book really is a "pocket guide." It's the size of a little marketing book that you would expect to be free-- but people are paying $46 for this.This book explains the basics (such as "what is PROFIBUS?") and goes into detail about timing parameters, signal integrity, and pinouts. They crammed a lot of good information into a tiny book. There is no fluff whatsoever.Despite the high information density, which is really what you want from a book, it's hard to part with $46 for this tiny little book. Perhaps instead of having an engineer write it alone, they should have had a marketing person add some fluff so you feel like you're really getting something for your money.This book will save you from having to break out IEC61158 just to recall basic info.

Good information when venturing to profibus for the first time

Actually I thought it was a kind of handbook in Profibus (considering the price), so I got very disappointed when it arrived - it is not much bigger than a box of matches. So indeed it fits into any pocket. The biggest problem with this book is that the figures are so small that most of thenm are useless. You simply cannot read the figure texts

The price of this book is way too much for the value it provides, I would not recommend this book to my worse enemies.It's hardly readable due to its small size and the paper quality would been better used as toilet paper.As for I.formation if you can read it, not much really useful for an engineer or technician that works in the field of automation.Better off reading the manual in German that comes with Turck excom profiles than this.Due your self a favore, and find a better source of information than this.Unless you make $500 an hour this book is really expensive for its purpose

This book give you very basic information about the profibus.An entire chapter is dedicated to how wiring the bus and how to connect the 2 bus wires into a DB9 connector.A very entry level book, hardly to read due to its phisical dimension.After take a look into it, I'm asking myself how it is possible to ask 49$ for this book.