Multivibrator: A circuit with positive feedback and two active devices, designed so that one device conducts while the other cuts off. There are three types:…

Medium-scale integration (MSI): Circuits with 10 to 100 integrated components.

MPP value or Output Voltage Swing: Also called the output voltage swing. This is the maximum unclipped peak-to-peak output of an amplifier. With an op…

Motorboating: A low-pitched putt-putt sound that comes out of a loudspeaker. It indicates that an amplifier is oscillating at a low frequency. The cause is…

Monolithic IC: An integrated circuit that is entirely on a single chip.

Mixer: An op-amp circuit that can have a different voltage gain for each of several input signals. The total output signal is a superposition of…

Miller's theorem: It says a feedback capacitor is equiva­lent to two new capacitances, one across the input and the other across the output. The most…

Midband: We have defined this as 10f1 to 0.1f2. In this range of frequencies, the voltage gain is within 0.5 percent of the maximum voltage gain.

Metal-oxide Semiconductor FET (MOSFET): Often used in switching amplifier applications, this transistor provides extremely low power dissipation even with high currents.

Measured Voltage Gain: The voltage gain that you calculate from the measured values of input and output voltage.

Maximum Forward Current: The maximum amount of current that a forward-biased diode can withstand before burning out or being seriously degraded.

Majority Carrier: Carriers are either free electrons or holes. If the free electrons outnumber the holes, the electrons are the majority carriers. If the holes…

Large-scale integration (LSI): Integrated circuits with more than 100 integrated components.

Lower Trip Point (LTP): One of the two input voltages at which the output voltage changes states. LTP = -BVsat.

Loop Gain: The product of the differential voltage gain A and the feedback fraction B. The value of this product is usually very large. If…