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Transistor basics Gain: Hfe, hfe & Beta Transistor specifications Transistor and diode numbering codes Choosing replacement transistors There are many thousands of different types of diode, bipolar transistor and FET. These semiconductor devices have different characteristics according to the way they are designed and made.

Initially manufacturers had to give their own numbers to devices, but soon standard part numbering schemes were used for semiconductor devices including diodes, bipolar transistors and FETs - both JFETs and MOSFETs.

Even though there are standard numbering systems these days, there are many specialised transistors and other semiconductor devices on the market, and these often carry the makers individual part numbers on them. Fortunately many of these are easily identifiable as the devices from particular manufacturers.

Also with the rise of the Internet, the specifications and other details of transistors and many other electronic components are easily found and their full data-sheets can be viewed. Despite this, it is still a very convenient to understand transistor numbering schemes from which it is easy and quick to understand their broad performance.

There are many different ways of organising a numbering scheme. In the early days of thermionic valve (vacuum tube) manufacture, each manufacturer gave a number to the types they manufactured. In this way there were vast numbers of different numbers for devices many of which were virtually identical. It soon became obvious that a more structured approach was required, so that the same device could be bought regardless of the manufacturer.

The same is true for semiconductor devices, and manufacturer independent numbering schemes are used for diodes, bipolar transistors and FETs. In fact there a few semiconductor numbering schemes in use:

The aim of the the industry standard numbering schemes is to allow for the identification and description of electronic components and in this case semiconductor devices including diodes, bipolar transistors and field effect transistors, to have common electronic components and component numbering across several manufacturers. To achieve this, manufacturers register a definition for new electronic components with the relevant agency and then receive a new part number.

This approach enables electronic equipment manufacturing companies to have second sources for their components and in this way assure the supply for large scale manufacturing and also to reduce the effects of obsolescence.

The Pro-Electron numbering scheme to provide a standardised scheme for semiconductor numbering - in particular diodes, transistors and field effect transistors was set up in 1966 at a meeting in Brussels, Belgium.

The scheme for the numbering of semiconductor diodes, bipolar transistors and FETs was based around the format of the system developed by Mullard and Philips for thermionic valve or vacuum tube numbering that had existed since the early 1930s. In this the first letter designated the heater voltage and current, the second and subsequent letters the individual functions within the glass envelope and the remaining numbers indicated the valve based and the serial number for the type.

The Pro-Electron scheme took this and used letters that were seldom used for the heater descriptions to designate the semiconductor type and then used the second letter to define the function. Similarities existed between the valve / tube designations and those used for the semiconductor devices. For example, "A" was used for a diode, etc.

The characters following the first two letters form the serial number of the device. Those intended for domestic use have three numbers, but those intended for commercial or industrial use have letter followed by two numbers, i.e. A10 - Z99.

This is useful to both manufacturers and users because when transistors are manufactured, there is a large spread in the levels of gain. They can then be sorted into groups and marked according to their gain.

Using the numbering scheme it can be seen that a transistor with the part number BC107 is a silicon low power audio transistor and a BBY10 is silicon variable capacitance diode for industrial or commercial use. A BC109C for example is a silicon low power audio transistor with a high gain

JEDEC, Joint Electron Device Engineering Council is an independent industry semiconductor engineering trade organisation and standardisation body. It provides many functions, one of which is the standardisation of semiconductor, and in this case, diode, bipolar transistor and field effect transistor part numbering.

The earliest origins of JEDEC can be traced back to 1924 when the Radio Manufacturers Association was established - many years later this became the Electronic Industries Association, EIA. In 1944, the Radio Manufacturers Association and the National Electronic Manufacturers Association established a body called the Joint Electron Tube Engineering Council, JETEC. This was set up with the aim of assigning and coordinating type numbers of electron tubes, (thermionic valves).

Initial numbering of the semiconductor devices followed the broad outlines of the tube of valve numbering scheme that had been developed: "1" stood for "No filament / heater" and the "N" stood for "crystal rectifier".

The first digit for semiconductor device numbering was repurposed from indicating no filament to the number of PN junctions in the semiconductor device, and the numbering system was described in EIA/JEDEC EIA-370.

Sometimes extra letters are added to the part number and these often refer to refer to the manufacturer. M means the manufacturer is Motorola, while TI means Texas Instruments, although an A added to the part number often means a revision of the specification, e.g. 2N2222A transistors are widely available and these are an updated version of the 2N2222. Interpreting these numbers sometimes requires a little background knowledge.

Following the serial number a suffix can be used to indicate the device has been type approved, i.e. there is a guarantee that it has been manufactured under the right conditions to produce the required semiconductor device.

Despite the fact that there are industry organisations in place to generate device numbers, some manufacturers wanted to produce devices that were unique to them. In some areas it would provide a device with a unique selling point that other manufacturers could not copy.

I know all source code in their most fundamental level is broken down into 1s and 0s. I also know all CPUs at their most fundamental level are broken down into billions of transistors, and then logic gates & ALUs.

Ah, you're missing the STATE MACHINE concept. That's where we can "write code" made out of TTL hardware chips: data-selectors, 4-bit counters, gangs of parallel flipflops. (But all those are the complicated parts, while the idea behind "state machines" is fairly simple.)

"State-machine" is also commonly called "micro-code." Also called "bit-slice" or "microsequencer." It's also labeled as the instruction-decoder inside the processor chip. (So, it's the "tiny person" inside the CPU-chip who reads the opcodes and actually performs the listed actions.)

In all the many intro/popular explanations of computers, they'll teach us all about logic gates, and about full blown embedded processors, but never about the Abstraction Layer that's sandwiched invisibly in between the two. They don't try to explain the tiny man in there.

The simplest state-machine is a ROM chip with its address lines connected to a many-bits digital up-counter. Then, the ROM output bytes are treated as individual wires or control-lines. (It's like a motorized washing-machine timer, stepping between N different settings in succession.) As the binary address counts up, the output-word's eight wires (or sixteen, 24, 32, etc.,) they can produce any timed pattern we want. Just pre-write the desired pattern in the ROM.

This is much like a mechanical music box. Or a controller for light-bulb patterns on 1950s advertising signs: a bunch of rotating disk-cams with leaf-switches on the edges. Carve some hills and valleys into the edge of the bakelite disks, and you can produce any timed light-patterns you desire.

But the true power of the idea will only arise if we connect our binary counter to three or four of the ROM's address-input lines. Then use the remaining extra ROM address-lines as inputs! So for example, if the ROM has 8 addr lines, we can connect our 3-bit up-counter to three of the lines. That way the counter will create a stepped sequence of eight bit-patterns on the ROM output. And, the ROM then stores thirty-two different versions of these, selected by the remaining five addr lines.

Next, use the five ROM address-inputs ...TO SELECT A MACHINE-LANGUAGE OPCODE! Different bits placed on those five extra addr-lines will trigger the different 8-pulse sequences stored in the ROM. Each of 32 possible opcode instructions will be made of 8 steps (or fewer.) Finally, use all the ROM output-bits as control lines.

This output-line here, when high, routes two registers together into the adder, for adding two numbers. This other one is pulse-incrementing the main CPU address register, for stepping through the machine code stored in RAM. This other wire latches the Adder's output, so it can be dumped into one of the CPU registers during ADD instruction. Another one will dump some register into the main address-register, for performing JMP instruction.

In other words, the CPU itself is made of software. But it's a bit-pattern stored permanently in a few words of ROM memory. Change the bit patterns and you alter what the opcodes do. The state-machine is where the deepest level of software is physically made of hardware. Think of the state-machine as the "little man" inside the computer who reads each machine-code instruction and sends pulses to the control-lines which manipulate registers and performs each opcode's little sequence of steps. (And, the microsequencer ROM is the little man's simple brain.)

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