3D IC
Initialism of three-dimensional integrated circuit.
Industrial electronics
250 terms in this trade.
A battery
A battery used to heat the filament or cathode heaters of electron tubes.
abfarad
A unit of capacitance equal to one billion (10⁹) farads, used in the centimeter-gram-second system of units
ACCH
Initialism of associated control channel.
ACLR
Initialism of adjacent channel leakage power ratio.
ACPR
Initialism of adjacent channel power ratio.
ACRR
adjacent-channel rejection ratio; the resulting measurement of comparing signal strength with a similar signal on another frequency if they are on adjacent channels.
AMOLED
Abbreviation of active matrix OLED, a display technology for use in mobile devices and televisions.
amplifier
An appliance or circuit that increases the strength of a weak electrical signal without changing the other characteristics of the signal.
anchor pylon
A pylon that forms the endpoint of a high-power transmission line and uses horizontal insulators, necessary when interfacing with other modes of power transmission and, due to the inflexibility of the conductors, when significantly altering the direction of the pylon chain.
AND gate
A logic gate performing a Boolean logic AND operation.
ASIC
Acronym of application-specific integrated circuit.
autocorrelator
A device that modifies a signal with a delayed copy of itself in order to detect any periodic signal hidden in the noise
B battery
A battery used to provide the plate voltage for a vacuum tube.
ball grid array
A type of surface mount used to connect integrated circuits to printed circuit boards.
battery cell
A unit that chemically stores energy, consisting of an anode, a cathode, and an electrolyte.
battery pack
A set of batteries or battery cells connected together to deliver a certain voltage, capacity, or power density, often with an integrated battery management system.
battery-backed
adjectiveIndustrial electronics
Of a device, using a battery to maintain operation when not powered by the main electrical supply (e.g. during a blackout).
bed of nails
A device for testing a chip, consisting of an array of spring-loaded pins.
beltpack
A radio transceiver worn on a belt and used in conjunction with headphones and microphone.
BFC
big fucking capacitor - a high-voltage film capacitor suitable for use in power transmission, electric motor starters and applications involving electrical arcs
bioelectronics
The proposed construction of electronic-like circuits from proteins or other biological macromolecules
birdie
An electromagnetic signal generated from within an electronic device.
brick-wall limiter
A limiter circuit that completely cuts off signals above a specified threshold, rather than merely attenuating the peaks.
bring up
To check (a newly-assembled printed circuit board) for errors.
bringup
The process of checking newly-assembled printed circuit boards for defects and ensuring they run as expected.
BSC
Initialism of Basic Spacing between Centers: Used in integrated circuits to specify package mechanical dimensions. This is a theoretical true position dimension and has no tolerance.
bucket brigade
A discrete-time analogue delay line that moves a signal along a line of capacitors, one step at each clock cycle.
burst mode
A mode in which data is transmitted repeatedly without separate transactions.
bus-holder
A weak latch circuit that holds the last value on a tristate bus.
calligraphic projection
A system for displaying or projecting an image composed of a beam of light or electrons directly tracing the image, as opposed to sweeping in raster order over the entire display surface.
capstan
A rotating spindle used to move recording tape through the mechanism of a tape recorder.
card clash
The situation where two or more contactless payment cards are simultaneously detected by a card reader, possibly resulting in the incorrect card, or more than one card, being charged.
cartridge ejector
A mechanism to eject a cartridge from its housing or cartridge drive, often operating on a simple mechanical principle.
CAS
Initialism of channel-associated signalling.
cat's whisker
The wire that touches the crystal in a crystal radio.
cathode ray tube
A vacuum tube that displays still or moving images (such as for a television), by controlling the direction of a cathode ray emitted towards the front of the tube. The front is coated by a layer of fluorescent material, so that it emits light when struck by the beam.
cavity magnetron
A high-power vacuum tube used in early radar systems and subsequently in microwave ovens and in linear particle accelerators.
CCD
Initialism of charge-coupled device (digital camera cell technology).
CCN
Initialism of controlled-controlled not gate.
center tap
A contact made to a point halfway along a winding of a transformer or inductor.
charactron
A form of cathode ray tube used to display letters and other characters
chicken bit
A bit on a chip that can be used to disable one of the features of the chip if it proves faulty or negatively impacts performance.
chip
A hybrid device mounted in a substrate, containing electronic circuitry and miniaturised mechanical, chemical or biochemical devices.
circulator
A passive electronic component with three or more ports, in which the ports can be accessed in such a way that when a signal is fed into any port it is transferred to the next port only
clock
An electrical signal that synchronizes timing among digital circuits of semiconductor chips or modules.
clock generator
a circuit that produces a timing signal for use in synchronizing a circuit's operation.
clock rate
The rate of clock pulses in an electronic circuit.
clock skew
A phenomenon in synchronous digital circuit systems in which the same sourced clock signal arrives at different components at different times due to gate or wire signal propagation delay.
CMOS
Initialism of complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor.
COB
Initialism of chip on board (an LED module or integrated circuit bonded to a circuit board)
coil
A coil of electrically conductive wire through which electricity can flow.
cold cathode
A type of cathode that does not use a heating element to produce emission of cathode rays (electrons), beyond base thermionic emission (usually by field electron emission, secondary emission, or photoelectric emission).
combinational circuit
A switching circuit whose output is determined solely by some combination of its concurrent inputs.
composite video, blanking, and sync
Standardised format of an analog picture-only television signal.
connect time
The amount of time that a circuit is in use, usually in a circuit-switched environment.
coupling
A connection between two electronic circuits such that a signal can pass between them.
CPLD
Initialism of complex programmable logic device.
crossatron
A high-power pulsed modulator device, a cold cathode gas-filled tube that combines useful features of thyratrons, vacuum tubes, and power semiconductor switches.
crosstalk
Undesirable signals from a neighbouring transmission circuit; undesired coupling between circuits.