Trigger characteristics of transistor flip-flop was studied. It is convenient to discuss the characteristic on
C-
R plane, where
C and
R represent trigger capacitor and diode-back-bias resistor respectively. The authors found three kinds of boundary lines; the first is a frequency-independent trigger boundary (DC boundary), the second a frequency-dependent trigger boundary and the third an anti-noise boundary. The area on
C-
R plane surrounded by these three lines is an allowable domain for that frequency. The values of
C and
R must be selected within this allowable domain. Communication capacitor aids high frequency gain and makes it possible to flip the flip-flop circuit by the positive feedback principle, but the anti-noise boundary goes too far to the right at the large value of the capacitor and there exists no allowable domain. The allowable range of the value of the capacitor is relatively narrow. The authors recommend the values of communication capacitor,
C and
R for both the low frequency use and high frequency use transistors. An interesting fact was found that necessary trigger current is minimum at the optimum
C-
R combination. The necessary trigger current is independent of the clock pulse frequency. The measured values of the necessary trigger current are available for expediting the design of clock pulse generator circuit.
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