Complete Wireless Design
If you want to climb the learning curve with grace, and start designing what you need immediately, this easy-to-understand guide will help you design an entire radio system from the ground up.
TABLE OF CONTENTS Complete Wireless Design
Glossary
- Active device
- Any component that can amplify a DC and/or AC signal, such as a JFET, BJT, MOSFET, etc.
- Active region
- The 0.2-V range of V BE in which a BJT is capable of amplifying an incoming signal. It is the region between saturation ( V BE = 0.8 V) and cutoff ( V BE = 0.6 V); within these two V BE values the I B , and thus the I C , is controlled.
- AGC saturation point
- An area in which any further increase in AGC voltage becomes nonlinear, or saturates, at the AGC knee.
- Application specific integrated circuit (ASIC)
- A custom-designed and -built integrated circuit.
- Automatic noise limiter (ANL)
- A diode circuit that is located after the baseband detector to cut off any noise spikes that would reach the audio section of an AM or SSB receiver.
- Average power
- Since peak power is the power at the highest amplitude of a digital pulse, most measuring devices would have difficulty measuring a rapid and changing peak amplitude. They instead will normally measure only the average power of a signal over time (about 1 second). The signal itself may have peaks that are 10 times or more higher in amplitude than this average power over time, but these are not uniform, nor are they predictable.
- Backplane
- A common connection point for multiple components, circuits, or systems.
- Balanced amplifier
- A push-pull power amplifier.
- Ballast resistor
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