Blake Terms

Radio-frequency Circuits
DEFINITION
A mixer in which the input frequencies are cancelled and are
therefore not present at the output
Removal of an unwanted signal by providing a low-impedance
path to ground

TERM
Balanced mixer
Bypassing

The total frequency range over which a PLL can become locked
to a signal

Capture range

A small slab of quartz with attached electrodes and used as a

resonant circuit

Crystal

This means to prevent undesired passage of signals between

circuits

Decouple

A frequency multiplier whose output is twice of the input signal

The frequency at which a VCO operates when its control voltage
is zero
A circuit whose output frequency is a small integer multiple of
the input signal frequency
A device that can produce a large number of output frequencies
from a smaller number of fixed-frequency oscillators
Movement of a signal from one frequency to another using a
mixer-oscillator combination
A small length of wire, connected at only one end and used as a
capacitance to the ground
An artificial ground often consisting an area of foil left on one
side of circuit board
Total range of frequencies over which a PLL, once locked can
remain locked
In some amplifiers, the internal capacitance of the active device
can cause feedback that produces the same effect on the circuit
as a much larger capacitance across the amplifier input
A nonlinear circuit designed to generate sum and difference
frequencies when two or more frequencies are present at its
input
The number by which a digital divider chain divides
A circuit whose output is proportional to the product of the

Doubler
Free-running
frequency
Frequency
multiplier
Frequency
synthesizers
Frequency
translation
Gimmick
Ground plane
Lock range

Miller effect

Mixer
Modulus
Multiplier

instantaneous amplitudes of two input signals

A means of avoiding instability in amplifiers by using negative
feedback
A device whose output voltage is a function of the phase
difference between two input signals
A device that locks the frequency of a VCO exactly to that of an
input signal
An effect that occurs with some materials, such as quartz and
some ceramics, whereby a voltage is produced across the
material when it is deformed
A divider that precedes the main programmable divider in a
frequency synthesizer
In a frequency synthesizer, the smallest amount by which the
output frequency can be changed
The frequency at which a single component becomes a resonant
circuit, because of the presence of stray capacitance or
inductance, or both
A frequency multiplier whose output frequency is three times
than that of the input signal
A reversed-biased diode used as a voltage-variable capacitor
An oscillator whose frequency can be controlled by changing the
external controlled voltage
The time it takes a charge carrier to cross from the emitter to
the collector is called
The conditions for sinusoidal oscillation from an amplifier are
called
What inductance would you use with a 47-pF capacitor to make
a tuned circuit for 10 MHz? (round to 2 significant figures)
What value of Q is required for a 10-MHz tuned circuit to have a
bandwidth of 100 kHz?
A tuned-circuit amplifier with a gain of 10 is being used to make
an oscillator. What should be the value of the feedback ratio to
satisfy the Barkhausen criteria?
If a varactor has a capacitance of 90 pF at zero volts, what will
be the capacitance at 4 volts?
An oscillator has a frequency of 100 MHz at 20C, and a tempco
of +10 ppm per degree Celsius. What will be the shift in
frequency at 70C?

Neutralization
Phase detector
PLL, phaselocked loop
Piezoelectric
effect
Prescaler
resolution
Self-resonant
frequency
Tripler
Varicap, varactor
VCO, voltagecontrolled
oscillator
Transit time
Barkhausen
criteria
5.4 uH
100
0.1
30 pF
50 kHz