Description

The BC183 is an NPN General Purpose Amplifier. A signal's power can be increased by an electronic device known as an amplifier, electronic amplifier, or (informally) amp (a time-varying voltage or current). It is a two-port electrical circuit that amplifies signals delivered to its input terminals using electricity from a power source to create signals with correspondingly increased amplitude at the output. The gain of an amplifier—that is, the ratio of output voltage, current, or power to input—is used to determine how much amplification it offers. A circuit with a power gain larger than one is referred to as an amplifier.

Features

• Efficiency, the ratio between the power of the output and total power consumption

• Linearity, the extent to which the proportion between input and output amplitude is the same for high amplitude and low amplitude input

• Noise, a measure of undesired noise mixed into the output

• Gain, the ratio between the magnitude of output and input signals

• Bandwidth, the width of the useful frequency range

Applications

• Process control

• Communications

• Computers

• Power and signal sources

• Displays and measuring systems