Index (partial: "A" entries only)

ABEL, 530
absolute address mode, 747ff.
absolute temperature sensor, 338ff., 982ff.
absolute-value circuit, 221f., 888ff.
ac amplifier, 179, 186
ac line filters, 326, 327t, 858
  fuse mandatory, 860
  hot terminal, care with, 860
AC logic, 569ff., 601, 939ff.
ac power source, 248f.
ac relay, solid state, 588, 761, 768
accelerometer, 1004
access time, in serial port, 809
  calculation, 767
  memory, 528, 766ff., 813ff.
accumulator bin, 774f., 795f.
acoustic ranging, 965
acoustical coupler, 727
acousto-optic spectrometer (AOS), 1037
ACT logic, 569ff., 601, 939ff.
active
  clamp (see clamp)
  device, 61
  load, 87, 132ff.
  rectifier, 187f., 221f., 469, 888ff.
  resistor, 257
active filter  (see also filter), 41, 263ff., 274t
  bootstrap as, 184
  example, 548
  inductor, 304
adaptive equalizer, 729
adaptive optics, 169
A/D converter (see also ADC), 612ff., 621ff., 630ff.
ADC (A/D converter), 612ff., 621ff., 630ff., 632t, 634t
  aperture interval, 622
  charge-balancing, 625ff.
  CMOS IC design example, 982
  combined with DAC, 630
  delta-sigma, 628, 640f.
  dual-slope, 626ff.
  experience with 16-bit, 810f.
  flash, 621f.
  grounding, 627
  guidelines for choosing, 631ff.
  half-flash, 622
  high resolution, 630
  integrating, 625ff., 634t
  microprocessor compatible, 690, 769, 794f., 810ff.
  with multiplexer, 777ff.
  used as panel switch, 799
  parallel encoder, 621f.
  in pulse-height analyzer, 1034
  single-slope, 625f., 1035
  subsystem, 634f.
  successive approximation, 622ff.
  switched-capacitor, 628
  tracking, 624
  video, 630
  Wilkinson, 1035
adder, 478, 497f.
address
  access time calculation, 767
  bus lines, 684
  comparator, 685
  contiguous, 768
  decoding, 685, 766, 787f.
  direct, 680f.
  incomplete decoding, 766, 768
  indirect, 675, 680f., 749, 752, 790
  internal registers of chips, 768
  multiplexing, in DRAMs, 814f.
  postincrement, 752
  registers, 744
  relative, 675
  segment register, 681
  setup time, 771
address bits, ignored, 766, 768
address latch enable (ALE), 802
address modes, 747ff., 748t, 749t
  absolute, 676, 750
  autoincrement, 747
  direct, 676
  8086, 680f.
  indirect, 790
  indirect with offset, 749
  paged, 676
  postincrement, 747ff.
  preincrement, 747ff.
  relative, 750
  68000, 748t.
admittance, 79
AGC, 139
aging, 303
air cooling, 855
aliasing, 283, 775f.
alkaline battery, 921ff., 978
alphanumeric, 677
alphanumeric character, 720
ALS logic, 568
AM homodyne detection, 652, 889, 896
amnesia, 675
amperage (see current)
amplifier (see also op-amp)
  ac, 179, 186
  audio,  91ff., 948ff.
  autozeroing, 415ff.
  building blocks, 91ff.
  cascode, 79, 103, 868, 913, 950
  charge, 1039
  class A, AB, B, 92ff.
  CMOS linear, 156f.
  common-base, 103, 868
  common-emitter, 76f., 82ff.
  dc, 100, 179, 260, Ch.,7, 392ff.
  differential (see also differential amplifier), 98ff., 105, 184,
    421ff., 867, 989f.
  emitter follower, 868
  equalization, 175f.
  FET, 129ff.
  GaAsFET, 873ff.
  GPD, 873ff.
  grounded base, 103
  grounded emitter, 83
  headphone, 256
  high-frequency, 863ff.
  high frequency configurations, 868ff.
  high voltage, 168f., 213, 256
  input impedance (see impedance)
  instrumentation, 402, 419ff., 429t
  inverting, 177f., 235
  isolation, 460, 462ff.
  laboratory, 238f.
  logarithmic, 176, 213f., 254, 392
  low distortion, 255, 256
  low drift, 469
  low-noise, 873ff.
  magnetic, 366
  micropower, 948ff., 951ff
  modular, 873ff.
  with negative feedback, 236ff.
  noise, 428ff.
  noninverting, 178f., 234
  nonlinear, 176
  nulling, 415ff.
  operational (see op-amp)
  output impedance (see impedance)
  parametric, 903
  pathologies in micropower, 953
  photodiode, 253, 1039
  photomultiplier, 911ff.
  piezo, 168f., 1039
  power, 214t, 248f.
  precision, 392ff.
  programmable-gain, 110, 152, 638
  push-pull, 91ff., 316
  radiofrequency, 883
  RIAA, 185f.
  series-feedback pair, 238, 872f., 950f.
  servo, 254
  shunt-series pair, 238, 872f., 950f
  single-ended, 100
  summing, 185
  switchable gain, 152, 638
  thermal stability in, 93
  transconductance, 79
  transimpedance, 79, 184, 235, 962, 1039
  transresistance, 79, 184, 235, 962, 1039
  tuned, 305, 869, 882ff.
  variable gain, 139f., 255, 257
  video, 449, 876, 915
  voltage, 76f.
  voltage-controlled, 139f., 255, 257
  wideband, 869ff.
amplitude, 16
amplitude modulation, 885f., 894ff.
  detection, 889f.
analog display wristwatch, 968
analog modeling tools, 908f.
analog switch, 140
analog switch, 124, 140
analog-to-digital converter (see ADC), 631t
analysis, state, 824
  timing, 527, 766, 812ff., 824f.
analyzer, logic, 821, 824f.
AND gate, 155f., 479
  wired, 490
AND-OR-INVERT (AOI) gate, 485
anodic stripping voltametry (ASV), 1015f.
antialiasing filter, 776
antistatic, 170f.
aperture interval, 622
APL, 715
Appletalk, 736
application-specific IC (ASIC), 851
arbitrary phase sinewave, 296
argument, immediate, 679
argument convention
  Intel, 679
  Motorola, 680
arithmetic logic unit (ALU), 498, 675
array initialize, 790
  LED, 768f.
artwork, 844, 855
AS logic, 568, 587
ASCII, 474, 604, 714, 721t, 723, 803
  communication interface, 803f.
  8-bit binary, 720
ASICs (application-specific ICs), 851
assembler, 679, 714
  native, 821
assembly language, 678ff., 684, 691, 745ff., 774
assertion-level logic, 482ff.
asynchronous, 515, 552
  bus, 678, 707, 754
  serial communication, 804ff.
  transmission, 722
atomic beam, 1017f.
atomic standards, 303
attenuation, 71
attenuator, 19, 887
audio amplifier, 91ff., 948ff.
authorized distributors, 861
autocorrelation, 657ff.
autoformer, 58
autoincrement addressing mode, 747
automatic gain control (AGC), 139
autorouting, 844
autoscale, 775
autovector, 700, 756, 788
  interrupt, 756
  polling, 698f.
auto-zero, 627, 640
  IC, 419
avalanche injection, 817