Device Prefix for Transmission Lines

Apr 07, 2005 2 Replies

How about W? That is commonly used for wire, and transmission lines are just wire with specifications.

NOTE: to reply, remove all punctuation from email name field Ned Forrester n_f_orrester@whoi.edu 508-289-2226 Applied Ocean Physics and Engineering Dept. Oceanographic Systems Lab http://adcp.whoi.edu/ Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA 02543, USA

I'm wondering if there is a generally accepted device prefix for transmission lines. When drawing a schematic, we all name our resistors "Rx", with x some unique identifier, our capacitors "Cx", for transistors we have "Tx" or "Qx", and so on. But what about (microstrip or coplanar or whatever) transmission lines? I mean, they are not exactly "ordinary" devices, but in the documentation about a circuit's design, I sometimes feel the need to name a line segment explicitly, like "line [whatever] was adjusted to yield a phase shift of ...". I'd call them "Lx" (for Line), but that's reserved for inductors. "LTx" would be a possibility, but I do not like two-character-prefixes that much.



Any opinions on that?



Regards,



Paul


"Ned Forrester" schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:d312hf$omu$ snipped-for-privacy@baldur.whoi.edu...

Definitely the cutest definition of a transmission line I've ever heard of :-))

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