The Art of Electronics

Index (partial: "P" entries only)

packed BCD format, 736, 741
pads, 835
PAL, 499, 756, 800, 815
  glitch, 540
  programming, 530ff.
  registered, 515, 527ff.
  sequential, 527ff.
  speed of, 539
PALASM, 530
panel
  accessibility, 855
  cold switching, 64, 494, 860
  control, 789
  control switch, 776
  controls, replacements for, 799
  Wire-Wrap, 828ff.
  wiring, effects of fast edges, 973f.
paper tape, 844
parallel circuit, 3
parallel encoder, 621f.
parallel port, 685ff., 754ff., 808f.
parallel port, Centronics, 730ff., 730t
parallel port/timer IC (8536), 769ff.
parasitic coupling, 26
parasitic oscillation, 298ff.
parasitic SCR, 973
parity, 499, 805
parse, 776
particle detector, 1008ff.
PASCAL, 714f.
pass transistor, 311, 353f.
passband, 267
passive components, 53ff.
passive device, 61
pathology, 555f., 973ff.
PC board (see also card; circuit board)
  card ejector, 852
  cleaning, 840
  desoldering, 841
  double-sided, 833, 836
  edge connector, 828, 834, 838
  fabrication, 830ff.
  four-layer, 816
  hook, 840
  multilayer, 771, 849
  plated-through holes, 828
  production houses, 845, 848
  prototypes, 848
  standard size, 852
  trace resistance, 954
  Wire-Wrap, 830f.
PC board design, 833ff.
  with CAD, 835ff.
  conductor width guidelines, 841
  graphic patterns, 838f., 839t
  taping, 837, 838
PC motherboard, 853f.
PC/AT, 674, 708f.
PCM, 471f., 900ff.
PC/XT, 674, 700, 708f., 731, 803, 810f.
  bus, 684f.
  bus signals, 704f., 704t
  cards, 716
  I/O addresses, 687
  number storage, 741
p-channel, 113ff.
peak detector, 133, 217ff., 253
peak-to-peak amplitude, 16
peaking inductor, 869
pencil layout PC board, 835
perfboard, 828
peripheral, 677f., 689, 707f., 719, 764
  circuits, 768
  CMOS, 977
  driver, 490, 583ff.
  internal registers, 768
PHA, 1034f.
phantom memory, 788
phase 
  detector, 641ff., 669, 1031f.
  modulation, 729
  reversal, 191
  shift, 38, 268
  shifter, 77f.
  splitter, 77, 101
phase locked loop (PLL), 641ff., 899f.
phase-sequence filter, 295
phase-shift keying, 727
phasor diagrams, 39f.
phone, ring detect, 983f.
phoneNET, 736
phono cartridge, 1006f.
phono connector, 56
phosphorus doping, 400
photoconduction in EPROM, 817
photodiode, 596, 962, 996f.
  amplifier, 253, 1039
photometer, 228, 998
photomultiplier, 368, 997f., 1009, 1030
  amplifier, 911ff.
photon counting, 911ff.
photoplot, 833, 835, 844f.
photopositive, 833
photoresist, 834
phototransistor, 596, 996f.
photovoltaic cell, 184, 919, 932ff.
pi network, 882f.
pickup and differential amplifiers, 98
Pierce oscillator, 300
piezo amplifier, 168f., 1039
piezo driver, 909
piezo beeper, 962f.
piggyback configuration, 983
piggyback EPROM, 818
pin, Wire-Wrap, 828
pin-and-jack socket, 839
PIN diode, 904, 996
pinch-off voltage, 120
pink noise, 432, 452
pinout, broadside, 800
  nonstandard, 553
PIO, 809
pixel, 1001
PLA, 504
plated-through holes, 833f.
plating electroless, 834
PLD, 499ff.
PLL 
  applications of, 651ff.
  capture, 650f.
  clean signal regeneration, 652f.
  design example, 647f.
  lock, 650f.
  loop gain, 647ff.
  loop stability, 646f.
  phase detector, 644f.
  resolution multiplication, 1020
pod, 824
pointer, 788
  stack, 675, 681, 765
pole, 40
  off-axis, 265
  splitting, 103, 872
pole-zero compensation, 247
polling autovector, 698f.
polysilicon gate, 554, 973
polysilicon-gate CMOS logic, 969
port, read/write, 755
  serial, 379, 677, 760f., 981
position-independent code, 750
positive true, 472
postincrement addressing, 747ff., 752, 790
potentiometer (see also trimmer), 8, 57, 819
power, 3f.
  amplifier, 214t, 248f.
  in capacitor, 33
  combiner, 887
  connector IEC, 860
  consumption (see power consumption)
  cord, 326
  factor, 34f.
  fail monitor, 667
  FET, 158ff., 164t
  gain, 61
  through input protection diodes, 974, 977
  measurement, 888ff.
  module (see power module)
  MOSFET, 153, 158, 164t, 166ff., 939f.
  op-amp, 214t
  in reactive circuit, 33f.
  splitter, 887
  switch, 158
  switching, 938ff., 962, 965, 982
  transistor, 158ff., 312ff., 314t
power consumption
  dynamic, 574
  faults, CMOS, 973ff.
  proportional to switching frequency, 970, 974
power-dissipation capacitance, 970
power module, 326f., 327t, 328, 860
power fail, 349
power-on reset, 764
power-on test, 777
power spectrum of pseudorandom noise, 658ff.
power supplied 
  by relay current, 937
  by signal currents, 933ff.
power supply
  analysis of switcher, 361ff.
  auxiliary, 365
  bootstrap, 427f.
  commercial, 382ff.
  constant current, 379ff., 386ff.
  crowbar (see crowbar)
  decoupling, 457
  dual polarity, 350ff.
  filter, 45f.
  flyback, 357f., 374
  fully enclosed, 384
  high voltage, 368ff.
  laboratory, 323ff.
  limited voltage, with CMOS, 959
  location on diagrams, 1057
  low drift, 374ff.
  low noise, 374ff.
  modular, 382ff.
  open frame, 382f.
  output sensing, 320, 376
  precision, 374ff.
  programmable, 321ff.
  regulated  (see also regulated supply), 104, 187
  ripple, 329f.
  split, 47, 71, 350ff., 389, 945ff., 962
  supervisory circuits, 319
  switching, 355ff., 360, 372f., 943ff.
  transistor, 314t
  uninterruptible (UPS), 920
  unregulated, 325ff.
  wall plug-in, 384, 931f.
power supply rejection ratio (PSRR), 402
power switch, MOSFET and BJT compared, 165
power-switched circuits
  communication, 965
  comparator, 965, 968
  microprocessor, 965, 978ff.
  programming issues, 983
  sensor circuits, 982
power switching, 124, 819f., 962, 975, 977
  timer for, 973
power transfer, 13
preamp, low-noise, 449, 469
precharge, 813
precision vs. dynamic range, 391f.
predecrement address mode, 747ff.
prefix, 1069ff.
prefixes (box), 3
preregulator, 385
pressure transducer, 1004f.
price curve, 802
prime, 493
printed-circuit board (see PC board)
printer, 730f.
  signals, 730t
priority encoder, 497, 621f., 757f.
probe, oscilloscope, 1048f.
problem behavior, 555f., 973
processor, floating-point (FPU), 499
production houses PC board, 845, 848
program 
  boiled-egg timer, 773
  boot, 764
  counter, 675, 745
  flow chart, 780
  signal averager, 774ff.
program debugging, 764
programmable 
  comparator, 965
  current source, 74, 88
  logic (see also PAL), 499ff., 527ff.
  op-amps, 210ff., 945, 953, 958t, 962, 964
  power supply, 321ff.
  UJT, 968
programmable-array logic (PAL), 499, 756, 800, 815
programmable-gain amplifier, 110, 152, 638
programmable logic (PLD), 499ff., 527ff.
  erasable (EPLD), 538
  hints, 536ff.
programmed data transfer, 753
  interrupt interval, 968
  I/O, 685, 689
programmer, 504
  EPROM, 817
  PAL, 527
programming issues
  power-switching, 983
  ``top-down,'' 777
programs, as files, 676
PROM, 502
proportional counter, 1008f.
protection
  CMOS, 150, 555
  Schottky diode, 973
protection, diode, fault hidden with, 974, 977
protection network, 171, 555, 960, 971
prototype circuit, 830
  circuit boards, 828, 830
prototypes, PC board, 848
prototyping methods, 827ff.
proximity switch, 157
pseudo-differential amplifier, 460
pseudo-op, 684
pseudo-random noise, 452, 653ff., 729
PSK, 727ff.
PS/2 bus, 708
PUJT, 968
pulldown, shows fault, 974
pullup, active, 487
pullup resistor, 75, 160, 230, 487ff., 497, 572, 575, 964
pulsar, 1030f.
pulse, 18
  code modulation (PCM), 471ff., 900ff.
  with digital timer, 798
  quadrature, 799
  runt, 553
  software, 731, 779, 798
  wake-up, 968
  width modulation (PWM), 360, 618, 901
pulse generator, 19f., 557
pulse-height analyzer (PHA), 1034f.
pulsed power output, 965
push-pull, 68, 168, 237, 316
  amplifier, 91ff., 316
  op-amp booster, 186
pyrometer, 995