Robert Lacoste's The Darker Side

Index

A

• AC

  • in conducting loop, 58

  • DC vs., 7

  • impedance matching, 6–8

  • mismatch example, 8, 9f

  • notions about, 267

• Active power, 267–268

• AC-to-DC switched mode converter, 280

• AD6640, 125–127

• AD9833, 187–188

• AD9910, 188, 189f

• AD9912, 190

• Adaptive dispersion compensation engine, 208

• Adaptive equalization, 207–208, 211

• ADISimPLL, 166

• Amplitude-shift keying, 217

• Analog high-pass filter, 211

• Antenna, 235

  • designs of, 236

  • ground plane, 237f

  • half-wave dipole, 236, 237f, 238

  • impedance matching, 235–236

  • isotropic, 238

  • loading capacitors added to, 245f

  • microstrip, 240–244, 242f–243f

  • quarter-wave, 237–238, 239f

  • radiation pattern of, 235, 238

  • in real life, 246–248

  • reflection coefficient of, 245f–246f

  • resonant, 240–241

  • simulation of, 238

• Anti-aliasing filter, ...