Index (partial: "B" entries only)

back annotation, 844
back diode, 49, 891, 904
back pressure, 857
backplane, 56, 801
backspace, 720
backup battery, 819, 929, 968
balanced mixer, 140, 886, 896, 1037f.
balanced quadrature detector, 900
balun, 881
bandgap, 948
  reference, 325, 331ff.
  temperature sensor, 338f., 994f.
bandpass filter, 59, 277f.
bandwidth
  of modulated carrier, 893f.
  narrowing, 1026ff.
  noise, 453f., 659
bare PC board testing, 848f.
barrel shifter, 499
barrier strip terminals, 837
base-emitter breakdown, 68, 578
base spreading resistance, 436, 445, 872, 905
baseband, 898
BASIC, 714f.
batch testing, 861
battery, 920ff., 922t, 923t, 930t
  alkaline, 921, 978
  backup, 929, 968
  backup for RAM, 819
  charger, 385
  charging, 926ff.
  dry cell, 921ff.
  energy density, 925ff.
  heavy-duty, 921ff.
  lead-acid, 926ff.
  LeClanche, 921ff.
  lithium, 771, 921ff.
  low-voltage alarm, 963
  mercury, 921ff.
  nickel-cadmium (Nicad), 926ff.
  operation from 9 volt, 969
  passivation, 924
  pathology, 927
  photovoltaic, 932ff.
  primary, 920ff., 922t
  recommendations, 928ff.
  replacement for, 820
  secondary, 920ff.
  self-discharge, 926ff.
  silver oxide, 921ff.
  split supply with, 945ff.
  switchover, 349
  two-step charge, 928
  types, 920ff.
baud rate, 722, 805f., 900 
  frequency generator, 806
BCD, 476
beat-frequency oscillator (BFO), 898
bed of nails, 849
Bell 103, 727ff.
Bell 212A, 727ff.
benchtop cabinet, 854
Bessel filter, 269ff., 306
beta, 62f.
  network, 233
  super, 959
bias, 70
  CMOS linear amplifier, 157
  self, in JFET, 127ff.
bias current, 136
  cancellation, 111
  FET and BJT compared, 136f.
biasing, 69
  bad, 71, 110
  common emitter amplifier, 84
  current source, 73
  grounded emitter amplifier, 83
  voltage, 71
bidirectional
  buffer, 560, 801
  bus, 678, 684ff.
bifurcated contact, 838
Bin (for PC cards), 854
bin, signal averaging, 774f., 795f.
binary, 474
binary offset, 476
bingo card, 1068
biologically-significant time, 792
BIOS, 816
biquad filter, 276, 278f.
BITNET, 735
Black, Harold S., 175, 233
Blackman's impedance relation, 236
bleeder resistor, 330, 366, 370
block transfer, 711
blocking capacitor, 36
blower, 313, 855ff., 858t
BNC connector, 55f.
boards, evaluation, 821, 825
Bode plot, 243ff.
body, MOSFET, 163
bolometer, 891
Boltzmann's constant, 80, 431
boot, 764f.
bootstrap, 94, 96ff., 110, 135, 183f., 675
  impedance, 96
  peaking in, 183f.
  power supply, 427f.
boxcar integrator, 1029
Bragg cell, 1037
breadboard, 544, 827ff.
  cards, 712
  solder, 829
break, 722
breakdown
  base-emitter, 68, 578
  collector-emitter, 74
  second, 159, 321
breakout box, RS-232, 726
breakpoint hardware, 823
  software, 823
brick-wall filter, 264, 453f.
bridge, 619
  linearized, 1039
  rectifier, 45ff.
  Wheatstone, 1001f., 1025
  Wien, 296
bridged differentiator, 280
broadside pinout, 800
brushless dc fans, 857
buffer 
  bidirectional, 801
  character, 691
  latch (see latch)
  three-state, 560t, 801
  unity gain, 179f., 186, 414f., 418t
buried gate, 817
burn and crash, 821
bus, 487f., 602f., 677ff., 704t, 709t, 753t, 788
  arbitration, 759
  asynchronous, 678, 707, 754
  bidirectional, 689
  computer, 678, 709t, 753t
  contention, 488
  control, 675
  default-wait, 754
  driver, 602f., 910
  8-bit claustrophobia, 788
  EISA, 708
  error, 765
  Fastbus, 711
  Futurebus, 711
  GPIB, 712f., 720, 734
  grant, 759
  HPIB, 712f., 720, 734
  IEEE-488, 712f., 720, 734
  interface, sluggish, 810
  I/O, 745
  ISA, 708
  master, 690, 702, 711, 757f.
  Micro Channel, 708
  Multibus, 708, 720
  multiplexed DATA/ADR., 802, 981
  NuBus, 711
  PC/XT, 684ff., 704t
  PS/2 bus, 708
  Q-bus, 711, 720
  request, 702, 757
  SCSI, 720
  signals, 684ff., 753ff.
  synchronous, 678, 707
  system, 801
  termination, 602, 911
  terminators, 678
  time-out, 764
  VAXBI, 711
  VME, 711
Butterworth filter (see also filter), 269ff., 1064ff, 1064t
bypass capacitor (see capacitor)
byte, 474, 675, 744, 800
byte-wide pinout, 800