The Art of Electronics Index
The Art of Electronics
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Index (partial: "T" entries only)
T network, 179, 223, 395, 403, 424
tab, 720
table
jump, 765
lookup, 816
sinewave generator, 294f.
talker, 714, 734
tank circuit, RF, 883
tape
electrical, 328
9-track, 676
for PCB artwork, 838
streaming, 676
tapped delay line, 815
TAXIchip, 610
TCXO, 302, 885, 1016f.
telephone
audio bandwidth, 727
current, 934ff.
holding current, 919
permissible loading, 935ff.
states of, 935ff.
telescope drive, 275, 548
teletype, 805
tempco
of bandgap reference, 338f., 994f.
of base current, 136
of FET, 159
FET drain current, 122
of gate leakage, 136
of MOSFET drain current, 159
of offset voltage, 192, 399ff.
temperature-compensated oscillator, 302
temperature-compensation transistor, 74
temperature control, 105, 619, 992
temperature sensor (see also thermistor), 338f., 988ff.
design example, 982
IC sensors, 338f., 994f.
micropower, 948
quartz thermometer, 995
thermocouple, 988ff., 990t, 1008
temperature-stabilized oscillator, 303
terminal, barrier strip, 837
terminal, computer, 677
terminal count, DMA, 706
termination
ac, 602
bus, 678
test
built-in, 777
power-on, 777
testing
bare PC board, 848f.
batch, 861
TeX , 716, 719
text formatter, 716
thermal
offset, 417f.
resistance, 313
stability, 93ff.
thermal runaway, 93ff., 159
absent in FET, 122
thermal shutdown, 343
thermistor, 105, 364, 992f.
linearizing, 992
thermocouple, 988ff., 990t, 1008
Thevenin's theorem, 11f., 58f.
generalized, 44
Thomson filter, 271
three-state, 487, 691
buffer, 801
three-terminal regulator, 325, 342t, 346t
adjustable, 344f., 346t
three-way switch, 54f.
threshold
logic, 473, 475
scatter in logic, 974
skew, 556
spread in 555
threshold voltage, Schmitt trigger, 232
time (see also timer, timing)
acquisition, 638
to amplitude converter, 1035
delay, 25, 907
domain, 23
fall, 907ff.
fall-through, 541
hold, 510
latency, 541, 809, 975
removal, 554
ripple-through, 541
rise, 906ff.
settling, 151, 268, 409, 467
setup, 510, 552, 753, 755
storage, 907f.
time clock, micropower (see also clock, calendar), 968
time-interval measurement, 1022f.
time-out, bus, 764
time-out power switching, 973
time-to-amplitude converter (TAC), 1035
timed wake-up, 965
timekeeping interrupt, 968
timer (see also time; timing), 556, 943
boiled-egg, 773
CPU, used in UART, 983
digital, 522
digital pulse, 798
ICs, 286ff., 963
interrupt request by, 793, 796
micropower, 965ff.
timing (see also time, timer), 510
anaylsis, 824f.
interface, different from conversion speed, 810
memory, 527, 766ff., 812ff.
68008 read/write, 754
software performance, 796f.
timing constraints, memory, 766ff., 812ff.
relaxed, 768
timing diagram handshake, 809
tin roof, rain on, 432
tip and ring, 935ff.
title block, 1057
TMOS, 158
TNC connector, 55f.
toggle, 510
token-ring network, 735
tools, 841
``top-down'' programming, 777
totem-pole, 689, 691
trailing edge, 687
latch, 768, 800
tranparent latch, 523, 753, 656, 800
transceiver, 560t, 603, 801
transconductance, 114ff., 130ff., 444
amplifier, 79
defined, 78
FET and BJT compared, 130
as function of I_C, 130f.
as function of I_D, 130f.
as function of V_GS, 130
model, 79ff.
of transistor, 78
transducer (see also sensor), 987ff.
displacement, 1001ff.
light-level, 996ff.
magnetic field, 1007
particle, 1008ff.
pressure, 1004f.
radiation, 1008ff.
strain, 1001ff.
temperature (see also thermistor), 338f., 988ff.
transfer function, 7f.
transform, Fourier, 1037f.
transformer, 28f., 328f., 460, 462, 610
balun, 881
flyback, 357f., 374
heating in, 47, 329
leakage current, 917f.
for minimum noise, 443
rating of, 329
toroidal, 457
transmission line, 443, 461, 882
variable, 58
transient capture, 651
transient current in DRAMs, 815f.
transient suppressors, 326t, 860
transimpedance amplifier, 79, 184, 235, 962, 1039
transistor (see also FET; MOSFET), 109t, 314t, 877t
active region, 70
amplifier, 76
bad biasing of, 71
base-emitter breakdown, 68, 578
base spreading resistance, 872
beta, 62f.
bias, 70
bipolar, 61ff.
bootstrapping, 96ff.
capacitances, 102ff.
cascode connection, 75, 79, 89, 103, 128f., 868, 913, 950
clipping in, 70
collector as current source, 64
collector-emitter breakdown voltage, 74
common-emitter amplifier, 76f.
as current amplifier, 62
current source, 72ff., 129
cutoff, 70
Darlington connection (see also Darlington), 94
data sheet, 1073ff.
diode biasing of, 93
dissipation, 312ff.
Early effect, 74ff., 81, 88f., 110
Ebers-Moll model, 62, 79ff.
emitter follower, 65
emitter impedance of, 81
FET (see also FET), 113ff., 125t, 126t, 164t
FET as BJT replacement, 125
field effect (see also FET), 113ff.
follower (see also emitter, follower, op-amp), 65, 133ff.
f_T, 866
grounded base, 103
high electron mobility (HEMT), 904
high-frequency model, 863ff., 905ff.
h-parameter model, 61f.
inductive loads with, 64
intrinsic emitter resistance, 81
JFET, 113ff., 125t
LC collector load, 87f., 883ff.
low-capacitance, 950
low-noise, 438ff., 445
matched biasing, 86
matched pair, 96, 123, 128t, 216
Miller effect in, 101ff.
MOSFET (see also MOSFET), 113ff., 126t, 164
MOSFET and BJT compared, 165
noise, 436ff.
noise comparison, 441f.
npn, 62
operating current, 864
outboard pass, 353f.
in parallel, 320f.
pass, 311
photo, 596, 996f.
pnp, 62
power, 158ff., 312ff., 314t
push-pull, 316
quiescent point, 70
RF (radiofrequency), 877t, 950
rules of thumb, 81
safe operating area (SOA), 74, 159f., 321, 368
saturation, 63, 70, 165f., 1062f.
series, 371f.
small-signal, 109t
sound, 413
stored charge in, 104
superbeta, 95f.
switch, 63, 116ff.
tables, 109t, 314t, 877t
temperature compensation, 74
temperature dependence in, 81
transconductance of, 78ff., 130
unijunction, 285, 377, 968
transitions, slow, 971
transmission gate, 494ff.
transmission line, 602, 879ff.
in frequency domain, 880
mismatched, 880, 915
quarter-wave section, 881
transformer, 882
transparent latch, 523, 753, 756, 800
transresistance amplifier, 79, 184, 235, 962, 1039
trap filter, 42
trapezoidal driver, 605
traveling-wave tube (TWT), 904
triangle wave, 17
oscillator, 240, 258, 285, 288ff.
trickle charge, 927
trigger, 1045ff.
sweep, 796
triggering, cross, 825
trigonometric-function generator, 293f.
trimmer, 57
op-amp offset, 192
problems with, 422
programmable, 819
TRI-STATE, 487f.
true, 472
true rms, 327, 452, 454
truth table, 478ff.
generalized, 500
TTL, 484ff., 568
characteristics, 486f.
noise immunity, 579
problems with, 554ff.
tuned circuit (see also LC circuit), 41, 87f., 869
Q of, 88
as transistor load, 138
tuned circuit (see also LC circuit), 87f., 883ff.
tuning fork crystal, 968
oscillator, 298
tunnel diode, 14f., 49, 886, 891, 904, 1060f.
twisted pair, 456, 460
Twist-'n-flat cable, 712
two-part connector, 852
2's complement, 476, 739f., 794
typical, 475
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