The Art of Electronics

Index (partial: "M" entries only)

machine
  code, 750
  language, 678f., 684, 750
  state, 512, 533, 537
  vending, 533
macrocell, 504, 538
magazines, 1068
magic-T, 887, 903
magnetic 
  amplifier, 366
  coupling, 456
  field, 1007
  shielding, 456f.
magnetometer, 1007
magnetron, 904
magnitude comparator, 499, 561t
mail-order houses, 861
mainframe, 673
majority logic, 499
mantissa, 739
manufacturer prefixes, 1069ff.
mark, 723ff., 729
maser, 904
mask, 498
masked ROM, 817
mass termination cables, 712
  connectors, 837
mathematics review, 1050ff.
mecca, 320, 457
medium-scale integration (MSI), 493ff.
memory 
  access time, 527, 766f., 813ff.
  address decoding, 766, 768
  aliases, 766
  backup, 929
  byte-wide, 765
  cache, 675ff., 813
  cycle time, 813ff.
  decoding, 766ff.
  EEPROM, 502, 818f.
  EPROM, 502, 816f.
  expansion, 559
  FIFO, 541
  ghost, 766ff.
  map, 718, 766
  mask-programmed, 502, 817f.
  noise induced errors, 816
  nonvolatile, 502, 765, 812, 819f.
  OTP, 502
  phantom, 788
  PROM, 502
  RAM, 523, 675, 718, 765ff., 812ff.
  read-only (ROM), 501f.
  repeating, 766, 768
  ROM (see also EEPROM; EPROM), 501f., 816ff.
  shadow, 766
  timing, 527, 766, 812ff.
  types, 820
  virtual, 718
  wait state, 766
memory arrays, fabrication, 849
memory effect
  in batteries, 927
  in capacitors, 220, 627
memory-mapped I/O, 718, 768, 979
memory write, spurious, 977
menu mania, 776
meshed gate, 442
``meta''shift key, 720
metal-gate CMOS logic, 969
metastable, 757
  hardened logic, 552
  state, 511, 552
meter, 57
methane laser, 1018
metronome, 959ff.
mho,   79, 808
MHV connector, 56
Mickey-Mouse logic, 970
Micro Channel bus, 708
microcomputer, defined, 673ff.
microcontroller, 542f., 744, 816, 975
  defined, 673ff.
microelectrode, 1013
microphone, 1002ff., 1005f.
microphonics, 433
micropower 
  amplifier, 948ff.
  applications, 917ff.
  calendar clock, 968
  CMOS logic, 156
  comparator, 965, 966t
  CPU design for, 979
  linear design, 948
  microprocessor, 975ff., 980
  op-amp, 950ff., 956t, 958t
  oscillator, 965
  temperature sensor, 948
  timer, 965, 965ff.
  voltage reference, 943, 948ff., 949t
  voltage regulator, 349f., 376f., 937, 941, 942t
micropower comparator, 965ff., 965t
micropower design
  circuit design, 917ff.
  digital design, 969ff.
  diminishing returns in, 985
  tricks-of-the-trade, 970ff.
microprocessor  (see also CPU), 542f., 743ff., 822t, 976t
  categories, 975
  code development, 821ff.
  comparison, 822t
  ``cross-assembler,'' 821
  dedicated, 756ff.
  defined, 673ff.
  emulator, 821
  interfacing, 684ff.
  incompatibility, 744
  micropower, 975ff.
  power-switched, 965, 978ff.
  supervisory circuit, 764, 773
  support chips, 800ff.
  technology, 821
  voltage regulator, 349
microprocessor-compatible A/D and D/A, 688, 769, 810
microsequencer, 539
Microsoft, 716
MicroVAX, 711, 740
microvolts, 853
microwave, 892
MICROWIRE, 968
Miller effect, 101ff., 133, 162, 245f., 445, 864ff., 883, 905ff., 950f.
  in cascode connection, 103
  in differential amplifier, 103
MIL-STD-1750A, 741
minicomputer, defined (see also CPU, micro-computer), 673
mini-DIP, 176f.
  EEPROMs, 819
minimization, 492f.
minterm, 501
misalignment, in PC boards, 848
mixer, 652, 885f.
  balanced, 140, 886, 896, 1037f.
  image-reject, 886, 896f.
  quadrature detector, 900
mnemonics, 679, 714, 750
modem, 677, 719, 722
  control handshaking, 803f.
  defined, 726ff.
  full duplex, 729
  null, 723ff.
  power-switched, 983
modular enclosures, 852
modular jack, 727
modulation, 892ff.
  amplitude, 885f., 894ff.
  double sideband, 897f.
  frequency (FM), 898ff.
  index, 894f., 897, 898f.
  inter-, 1037
  in lock-in detection, 1032f.
  phase, 729
  pulse code (PCM), 471f., 900ff.
  pulse-width (PWM), 360, 618, 901
  single-sideband (SSB), 295, 897f.
modulator, 885f., 897
modulo-n   counter, 524
modulo-2, 480
monitor program, 717, 823
monostable multivibrator, 304, 517ff., 562t
  cautionary notes, 517ff.
  circuit example, 517
  replace with timer, 798
  retriggerable, 517f.
MOSFET (see also FET), 113, 126t, 164t, 906
  body, 163
  breakdown in, 136, 163
  cautions, 163ff.
  charge transfer, 396
  compared with BJT, 165
  gate capacitance, 161ff.
  gate charge, 162
  gate impedance, 161ff.
  handling precautions, 169ff.
  logic switch, 153ff.
  low threshold, 160f.
  offset drift, 397, 400
  op-amp, 959
  opto-, 598
  parallel connected, 320f.
  power switch, 153, 158, 164t, 166ff., 939f.
  safe operating area (SOA), 321
  series, 142ff., 172, 219, 222, 371f., 393
  switch, 140ff., 939
Mossbauer effect, 1028f.
most significant bit (MSB), 512
motherboard, 56, 602, 853
motor, stepping, 542
motorboating, 250, 582, 955
Motorola argument convention, 680
mouse, 677
MSB, 512
MS-DOS, 717f.
MSI chips, 800ff.
Multibus, 708, 720, 733
multichannel 
  averager,  1029ff.
  scaler (MCS), 774ff., 1026ff.
multilayer PC board, 771
multimeters (box), 9
multipin connector, 56, 838
multiple conversion, 896
multiplexed
  bus, 981
  display, 300, 592f., 808
multiplexer (MUX)
  analog, 143f., 636
  differential, 669
  digital, 495f., 500
  from PAL, 528
multiplexing, time, 472, 901
multiplier, 140, 493, 498, 502, 559
  four-quadrant, 886
  frequency, 886f.
  IC, 886
  photo, 368, 997f., 1009, 1030
  rate, 541f., 618f.
  voltage, 47f.
multiplier-accumulator (MAC), 498
multistage LC, 41
multitasking, 717f.
Multiwire, CAD based fabrication, 849f.
muon, 1035
MUX (see multiplexer) 
mylar, PC board, 833, 835, 839t