The Art of Electronics

Index (partial: "L" entries only)

label, symbolic, 684
laboratory power supply, 323ff.
ladder, 185, 614f.
lamp, as feedback, 296
lamp flasher, 386
LAN, 677, 719, 735f.
Lancaster, Don, 716
language
  assembly, 678ff., 684, 745ff., 774
  high-level, 678, 683f., 714
  machine, 678f., 684, 750
large-scale integration (see LSI)
laser diode, 599
latch, 523f., 562t
  addressable, 523
  edge-triggered, 800
  three-state, 801
  transparent, 523, 753, 756, 800
latchup, 150
  CMOS, 150
  digital logic, 572
  SCR, 138, 150, 555, 572, 636, 964, 969, 973f.
latency, 541, 756
  time, 975
layout, prototype board, 828
LC, 41
  circuit, 87f., 869, 883ff., 895
  as collector load, 87f.
  filter, 265f., 1064ff., 1064t
  oscillator, 297ff., 300, 305, 653, 883f.
LCD display, 591, 594f.
lead bender, 840
leading edge, 753
leakage 
  analog switch, 151
  current screening, 971
  electrical, 840
  gate, 136
  input, 974
learning curve, 802
least significant bit (LSB), 512
LED, 57, 328, 582ff., 590f., 963
  array, 591, 599, 768f.
  display, 591ff.
  display driver IC, 594
  drive with HC logic, 768
  lock-in, detection of, 1034
  resistors, 768
  smart display, 593f.
left justification, 810
LEMO connector, 56
level-sensitive interrupt, 700
level shifter, 669f.
level translator, 573f.
leveling, 888
library, compiler, 715
  I/O, 715
LIFO, 681
light curve, 1030
limiter, 51, 899
  precision, 256
LinCMOS, 400
line handler, 691
line-operated ac fans (see also line filters), 857
linear FET, region of, 121
linear interpolation, 1022
linear-phase filter, 268, 271f.
linear switch, CMOS, 142
link, RF on coil, 883
linker, program, 717
listener, 714, 734
load, 12,  65
  active, 87, 134
  capacitance, 768, 971
  current mirror as, 101
  hot/cold, 451
  inductive, 52f.
  line, 1059ff.
LocalTalk, 736
lock-in amplifier, 889, 896, 1031ff.
lockup, 551
log on, 677
logarithmic 
  amplifier, 176, 213f., 254, 392
  converter, 51, 254f.
logger, data, 978
logic
  AC, ACT, 485f., 569ff., 601
  analyzer, 821, 824f.
  arbitrary, 500f.
  assertion-level, 482ff.
  combinational, 478ff., 490
  component tables, 560ff.
  design, worst-case, 768
  discrete, 537
  families, 485, 969f.
  family characteristics, 486f., 570t
  gate, 478ff., 484t
  generic array (GAL), 538
  glue, 537, 800
  hazard, 540
  HC, HCT, 569ff.
  HC, LED drive with, 768
  identities, 491t
  inputs source current, 554
  interfacing, 573ff., 574t
  levels, 19
  levels (box), 475
  low threshold, 970
  LS, 485f., 568ff.
  majority, 499
  metastable-hardened, 552
  minimization, 492f.
  PAL or PLD, 499
  pathology, 551ff.
  programmable, 499, 501f.
  race, 515, 525, 552
  random, 537
  redundant, 540
  sequential, 490, 504ff., 512ff.
  sequential MSI, 523ff.
  signals, cold switching, 64, 494, 860
  state machine idiosyncrasies, 809f.
  states, 472
  with switches, 54
  synchronous, 537
  tables of devices, 560ff.
  3.3-volt, 551
  threshold, 475, 554f.
  threshold scatter, 974
logo, 845
long-tailed pair (see also differential amplifier), 98
long word, 794
  (32 bits), 744
lookup table, 816
  oscillator, 294
loop
  conditional, 790f.
  second-order, 646f.
Loran, 1018
LOW, 472, 475
low-distortion oscillator, 296
low-dropout voltage regulator, 343, 345ff.
low-leakage diode, 217
low-level analog signals, 853
low-noise (see also noise)
  design, 438ff.
  oscillator, 285f.
  power supply, 374ff.
low-pass filter (see also filter), 37ff., 274t
  in FET switch, 143
  switchable, 151
low power (see also micropower)
  achieving with CMOS, 970ff.
  comparators, 966t
  design, 917ff.
  submicrowatt, 970
low-threshold
  logic, 970
  MOSFET, 160f.
LS logic, 485f., 568ff.
LSB, 512
LSI (large scale integration ICs), 1
  latency warning, 809
  poor output drive, 801
  state machine idiosyncrasies, 809f.
LVDT, 1001f.