The Art of Electronics Index

The Art of Electronics

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Index (partial: "I" entries only)


IBM PC (see PC/XT)
IC (integrated circuit), 61
  date code, 861, 1071
  failure rate, 1071
  package DIP, 836
  prefix, 1069ff.
IC sockets, 838
idle mode, 975
IEC power connector, 326, 860
IEEE number format, 739ff.
IEEE-488 bus, 712ff., 720, 734
IGFET (see MOSFET)
image, 896, 1036
image dissector, 1000f.
immediate argument, 679
impedance (see also resistance), 29ff.
  characteristic, 602, 879
  of current source, 66
  dynamic, 13f.,  69
  of emitter follower, 66f.
  FET buffer, 133
  incremental, 13f.
  input, 66f., 77, 83, 87, 177, 234
  internal, 13
  loading effect of, 65
  matched, 66, 879ff.
  negative, 14f., 251, 886, 1060f.
  output, 77
  of parallel circuit, 32
  of series circuit, 32
  small signal, 13f.
  source, 13
  Thevenin, 13
  of transistor amplifier, 77
incomplete address decoding, 766, 768
incomplete defluxing, 840
indicator LED, 590f.
indirect address, 675, 680f., 749, 752, 790
  with offset, 749
inductance in digital logic, 601f.
inductive kick, 52f.
inductive load, 52f., 64
inductor, 28, 902
  active, 304
  vs. capacitor, 39
  limitations of, 39
  as load, 52
  peaking, 869
  reactance (graph), 37
  reactance of, 32
  in time domain, 28
  variable, 58
input (see also inputs)
  floating, 556, 579, 977
  leakage, 974
  one's catching, 761, 789
  open, 556, 579f., 974, 977
  power through protection diodes, 974, 977
  protection diodes, 555, 960, 971
  shut-down, 978
  unused, 516, 556
input impedance
  of emitter follower, 66f.
  in feedback amplifier, 234
  of grounded emitter amplifier, 77, 83
  of inverting amplifier, 177
  of noninverting amplifier, 178f.
  of RF amplifier, 873
input/output PAL pins, 538
inputs (see also input)
  ground-sensing, 853
  swing rail-to-rail, 971
  unused, 555, 971
inrush current, 364, 367, 940f.
instruction 
  counter, 675
  decoder, 675
  examples, 681ff., 745ff.
  execution time, 781f.
  microprocessor, 679ff., 745ff.
  pointer, 745
instruction set
  8086, 679
  68000, 746t
instrument 
  bus, 734
  cabinet, 852
  I/O, 689
instrumentation amplifier, 402, 419ff., 638
  ICs, 426, 427, 429t
insulating layer, gate, 817
insulating washer, 313f.
integer, 473ff., 477t, 614, 739f.
integrated circuit (see IC)
integrating filter, 776
integrator, 26f., 195, 240, 261, 906
  boxcar, 1029
  clamped, 468
  FET reset, 163
  in frequency domain, 39
  op-amp, 195, 222ff.
  precision, 468
  switched-capacitor, 282
Intel argument convention, 679
intensifier, 998ff.
interface (see also current, loop; digital logic; ESDI; Ethernet;
           GPIB; IPI; MICROWIRE; parallel port; SASI; SCSI; SDLC)
  ASCII communication, 803f.
  character serial, 736ff.
  8530 to microprocessor, 684ff.
  keyboard, 694
  RS-232 driver, 803f.
  timing, 810
interfacing between digital logic, 573ff.
interference, 433, 455ff.
interferometer, 1004
interlocked handshake (see handshake)
intermittent failure, due to connector, 838
intermodulation, 1037
interpreter, 715
interrupt, 688, 693, 697ff., 711, 753
  acknowledge, 699
  autovector, 756ff., 764, 792
  cycle, 756
  daisy-chain, 699f., 757f., 771
  dedicated line, 711
  edge-sensitive, 700
  exception, 792
  handler, 693ff., 757, 778, 788ff., 798
  interval, programmed, 968
  level-sensitive, 700, 756
  nonmaskable (NMI), 764
  from phone ring detect, 983
  priority, 698f., 757f.
  request, by timer, 793, 796
  service time, 797
  shared lines, 698
  68000, 756
  slot dedicted lines, 757
  software, 701
  stored until powerup, 977
  timekeeping, 968
  timer, 979
  vector, 694, 699, 757, 788
interrupter, optical, 598
intrinsic standoff ratio, 968
inverter, 479
  CMOS, 154ff.
  flying capacitor (see also capacitor), 804
  voltage, 153
inverting amplifier, input impedance of, 177
I/O (input/output), 744
  addresses, PC/XT, 687
  bus, 745
  cycle, 685
  instrument, 689
  library, 715
  memory-mapped, 745, 764, 979
  programmed, 685, 689, 753
  real-time, 677
I/O decoding, memory mapped, 768
  with 68000, 768
ion-specific electrodes, 1013f.
ionization chamber, 1008, 1012
IPI, 713, 733f.
ISA bus, 708
ISIT, 998ff.
isolation, 29, 917
  amplifier, 460, 462ff.
isolator, 887
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