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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