3GPP
Initialism of Third Generation Partnership Project.
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a-c
Initialism of alternating current.
absorption
The retaining of electrical energy for a short time after it has been introduced to the dielectric.
active
Any component that is not passive. See Passivity (engineering).
actuator
A relay that controls the flow of electricity.
aligner
A system that produces integrated circuits by precision photolithography.
alternator
An electric generator which produces alternating current through mechanical means.
antimetry
A property of an electrical network where the normalised impedance of one port is the reciprocal of another.
arbiter
A component in circuitry that allocates scarce resources.
arcover
The unwanted arcing of electricity from one component to another, caused for example by the presence of contaminants.
autorouter
A computer program that canautomatically route tracks on a circuit board.
autozeroing
A sampling technique that measures an offset from zero and later compensates by subtracting the difference.
backplane
A circuit board that connects several connectors in parallel to each other, so that each pin of each connector is linked to the same relative pin of all the other connectors, forming a computer bus.
ballout
The pinout of a ball grid array integrated circuit.
base
The name of the controlling terminal of a bipolar transistor (BJT).
biotelemetry
The use of telemetry to monitor, measure and record physiological data of an organism
blip
A small dot registered on electronic equipment, such as a radar or oscilloscope screen.
blivet
An electronic signal that is normally high or on, but goes low for a very short period and then returns to high. A low going spike.
bricking
The state of an electronic device being rendered completely unusable by a failed or corrupted firmware or software change.
chiplet
Any of the integrated circuits making up a multi-chip module (MCM).
circuit
Enclosed path of an electric current, usually designed for a certain function.
clamper
A circuit that restricts the amplitude of a waveform.
clipper
A circuit which prevents the amplitude of a wave from exceeding a set value.
companding
A process in which noise in a signal is reduced by selective compression and expansion
compandor
Any device used in companding
corona
A luminous appearance caused by corona discharge, often seen as a bluish glow in the air adjacent to pointed metal conductors carrying high voltages.
CRT
A display device using a cathode ray tube, such as early televisions or monitors.
cue
A marker or signal that triggers something, such as the start of an audio recording.
cycloconverter
A device that modifies alternating current to a lower frequency without converting it to direct current
datapad
A tablet computer, a personal mobile device.
daughterboard
A circuit board that is an extension of a motherboard or other card.
decade
A set of resistors, capacitors, etc. connected so as to provide even increments between one and ten times a base electrical resistance.
default
the original software programming settings as set by the factory
digit trunk
Synonym of bus (“an electrical conductor or interface serving as a common connection for two or more circuits or components”)
diode
An electronic device that allows current to flow in one direction only; used chiefly as a rectifier.
directivity
A measure of the performance of an antenna compared to an isotropic antenna; the ratio of the maximum value of radiation intensity to the average radiation intensity.
displacement
The transfer of electricity along tubes of induction and thereby polarizing a dielectric.
dock
A device designed as a base for holding a connected portable appliance for providing the necessary electrical charge for its autonomy, or as a hardware extension for additional capabilities.
downlead
An electrical cable connecting an outdoor structure to an indoor or in-ground structure.
duplexer
A accessory of some printers that automatically flips pages to print on both sides.
dwell
A planned delay in a timed control program.
edge-triggered
adjectiveEnergy and utilities
Describing a circuit or component which is either positive-edge-triggered or negative-edge-triggered.
EEPROM
Electrically erasable programmable read-only memory.
EFF
Initialism of Electronic Frontier Foundation.
elaboration
The process of taking a parsed tree of an abstract integrated circuit definition in a language such as Verilog and creating a hierarchy of module instances that ends with primitive (atomic) gates and statements.
electrical bus
Synonym of bus (“an electrical conductor or interface serving as a common connection for two or more circuits or components”)
electrophoresis
The migration of electrically charged molecules through a medium under the influence of an electric field.
envelope
A curve that bounds another curve or set of curves, as the modulation envelope of an amplitude-modulated carrier wave in electronics.
equalizer
An electronic audio device for altering the frequencies of sound recordings.
fanin
The degree to which a component has separate inputs entering it.
feedpoint
The location on an antenna where radio frequency electrical power is applied.
flatpack
A surface-mounted circuit board with leads attached in the plane of the board.
flip-flop
A bistable; an electronic switching circuit that has either two stable states (switching between them in response to a trigger) or a stable and an unstable state (switching from one to the other and back again in response to a trigger), and which is thereby capable of serving as one bit of memory.
floorplanning
The act of designing a floor plan (electronic circuit design).
FPC
Initialism of flexible printed circuit.
gain
The factor by which a signal is multiplied.
gating
The control of the flow of signals based on certain conditions or criteria.
geothermy
The process and practice of harvesting heat produced by the Earth to be used as an energy source.
ground
An electrical conductor connected to the earth, or a large conductor whose electrical potential is taken as zero (such as a steel chassis).
GST
One of various compounds of germanium, antimony, and tellurium used as a phase change material, including GeSbTe.