female-to-male
adjectiveIndustrial electronics
That changes a female end (usually a socket) of a connection into a male one (with pins, usually a plug).
Industrial electronics
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FET
Initialism of field effect transistor.
FICT
Initialism of Fixtureless In-Circuit Test.
field
Part (usually one half) of a frame in an interlaced signal.
field-programmable gate array
a gate array designed to be configured by the customer or designer after manufacturing in the field, i.e. after manufacturing.
fieldbus
A member of a family of industrial digital communication networks used for real-time distributed control.
first-order hold
A mathematical model of the practical reconstruction of sampled signals that could be done by a conventional digital-to-analog converter and an analog circuit called an integrator.
flash drive
A small electronic device used to store digital data, more portable and robust than a hard drive.
flash memory
A rewritable memory chip that retains its data without a power supply.
flashcard
A solid-state digital memory storage format, commonly found on computers, digital cameras and cellphones.
floating ground
A reference point for electric potential in a circuit which is not connected to the actual earth ground.
floating-point unit
A microprocessor that performs floating-point arithmetic. In older models of computer the FPU was not integrated into the central processing unit, but rather as a coprocessor if included at all.
floor plan
A layout representation of where the major functional blocks of an integrated circuit will be physically placed.
floppy disk
A removable disk used for storing digital data, measuring between 2 and 8 inches diagonally and storing between 80 KB and 240 MB.
floppy disk drive
A floppy drive; a disk drive for floppy disks.
fluxonium
A superconducting artificial atom modelled from Josephson junctions
FPDP
Initialism of Front Panel Data Port.
FPU
Initialism of floating-point unit.
frame-alignment recovery time
The amount of time that elapses between a valid frame alignment signal that is available at the receiving terminal equipment and the moment that frame alignment is established.
frequency domain
The analysis of mathematical functions or signals with respect to frequency, and possibly a phase, rather than time.
frequency multiplier
An electronic circuit that produces an output frequency that is an integral multiple of an input frequency.
full adder
A specific logic circuit that performs an addition operation on three bits.
fuzzy controller
A controller that uses a fuzzy logic ruleset.
gender changer
A coupling device that allows two male or two female connectors to be joined together.
ghosting
The blurry appearance of a television picture resulting from interference caused by multipath reception.
gimmick capacitor
A capacitor consisting of two insulated wires twined together.
graphics processing unit
A specialized electronic circuit designed to accelerate the creation of images in a frame buffer intended for output to a display device.
grid
The third (or higher) electrode of a vacuum tube (triode or higher).
Gunning transceiver logic
A kind of logic signaling used to drive electronic backplane buses, having a voltage swing between 0.4 and 1.2 volts, much lower than that used in TTL and CMOS logic, and symmetrical parallel resistive termination.
half adder
A specific logic circuit that performs an addition operation on two bits.
hard disk
One of a series of parallel magnetic recording disks in a drive unit, used for the recording and retrieval of digital information; used especially in personal computers.
hard drive
An electromechanical data storage device that stores and retrieves digital data using magnetic storage with one or more rigid, rapidly rotating platters coated with magnetic material.
hard-reset
To perform a forceful restart or reinitialization of a device, system, or process, typically by cutting power, or using a dedicated button.
hard-wire
To connect components by means of permanent electrical wires.
hardware description language
Any language from a class of computer, modeling, or specification languages for formal description and design of analogue or digital logic electronic circuits.
hardwired
adjectiveIndustrial electronics
Designed to perform a specific task.
HBM
Initialism of high-bandwidth memory.
HCLK
Acronym of high-speed clock.
HD DVD drive
An optical drive used for reading data from and possibly writing data on an HD DVD.
HDR
Initialism of hard disk recorder or hard drive recorder (“a recording device that records onto a hard disk drive”).
headroom
The ability of a system to reproduce loud sounds free of distortion; dynamic headroom.
heterojunction
Any junction between two different semiconductors; functions as a diode
HF
Initialism of high frequency.
highpass
adjectiveIndustrial electronics
Describing a filter, circuit, or system that rejects or attenuates a frequencies below a specified value while passing those above.
home computer
A computer intended for use in the home.
hot microphone
A microphone that is activated (but not powered) by the sound of the user's voice, allowing it to pick up speech without having to be manually turned on, while still rejecting background noise unaccompanied by speech.
HS-DSCH
High Speed Downlink Shared Channel (in UMTS).
HS-PDSCH
Initialism of High Speed Physical Downlink Shared Channel (in UMTS).
HS-SCCH
Initialism of High Speed Shared Control Channel (in UMTS).
HSUPA
Initialism of High Speed Uplink Packet Access (in UMTS).
human interface device
Any hardware device allowing a user to interact with a computer, such as a keyboard or mouse.
IC
Initialism of integrated circuit.
IDE
Initialism of integrated drive electronics.
IF
Initialism of intermediate frequency.
IGP
Initialism of integrated graphics processor.
iGPU
Initialism of integrated graphics processing unit, a graphics processing unit which has been built into another major system component, such as the CPU or motherboard, and typically utilises system RAM instead of having VRAM chips of its own.
in-plane switching
A type of liquid crystal display (LCD) layered parallel between two glass pieces that is activated by an electric current to produce an image.
inductor
A passive device that introduces inductance into an electrical circuit.
inkjet printer
A device for the printing of documents which that operates by propelling tiny droplets of liquid ink onto paper.
interaxis
adjectiveIndustrial electronics
Pertaining to the perpendicularity (or deviation therefrom) of a set of resolver windings when another set of windings is excited.