photochop

en-verb

photochop (third-person singular simple present photochops, present participle photochopping, simple past and past participle photochopped)

photochops (present singular third-person)
photochopping (participle present)
photochopped (participle past)
photochopped (past)

This d-c signal is then photochopped in a solid-state oscillation circuit and the resulting a-c signal amplified.

1963, Instrumentation Technology - Volume 10, Issues 1-6, page 15:

Models 2030 and 2031 provided with photochopped voltage pulse and DC voltage signals, respectively.

1990, Narendra S. Goel, John M. Norman, Instrumentation for Studying Vegetation Canopies for Remote Sensing in Optical and Thermal Infrared Regions, →ISBN:

For photochopped anemometers, external power is required to power a light beam that is chopped by a rotating slotted disk.

2012, Gerald Stanhill, Advances in Bioclimatology, →ISBN, page 17:

(electronics, transitive) To convert, by chopping, a DC (or slowly varying AC) input signal into a higher frequency signal.


photochopper

A typical photochopper circuit is made up of two neon bulbs electrically connected in the form of a relaxation oscillator (Fig. 5).

1963, Space/aeronautics - Volume 40, page 98:

... the isolation between the bulb and photochopper must be 170 db.

1966, Richard F. Shea, Amplifier handbook, page 18-66:

Electric pulses with a frequency proportional to the angular velocity of the cups are obtained by means of radial magnets on the rotor axis and fixed transducers or by means of a photochopper.

1998, R. Baudo, Gianni Tartari, M. Munawar, Top of the world environmental research:

(electronics) An optoelectronic device that converts a DC input signal into a higher frequency signal.


floating ground

en-noun

floating ground (plural floating grounds)

(electronics) A reference point for electric potential in a circuit which is not connected to the actual earth ground.


LiPo

(electrochemistry, electronics) A lithium polymer battery Abbreviation of lithium polymer.


Li-ion

lithium ion battery
lithium ion battery#English

(electronics) Abbreviation of lithium ion battery.


SBC

(electronics) Initialism of system basis chip.


lithium-ion battery

lithium-ion battery (plural lithium-ion batteries)

The new trams will join an existing 21-strong Urbos tram fleet in Birmingham. The latter were delivered in 2012, and last year were fitted with Greentech on-board energy storage using lithium-ion batteries to enable catenary-free running. The new trams will have similar equipment.

(electrochemistry, electronics) A form of rechargeable battery containing lithium compounds, but not elemental lithium, used in many consumer electronics devices.


AC adapter

(electronics) An adapter for alternating current.


B battery

(dated, electronics) A battery used to provide the plate voltage for a vacuum tube.


Tx

Alternative form: tx

(uncountable, electronics, telecommunications) Abbreviation of transmission.


synchronverter

This paper sketches the ideas of a viable alternative for traditional remedial controls for power grids with high penetration of renewables, in which the renewables are integrated with synchronverters to mimic the dynamics of conventional generators.

2015, Thanh Long Vu, Spyros Chatzivasileiadis, Konstantin Turitsyn, “Towards Electronics-based Emergency Control in Power Grids with High Renewable Penetration”, in arXiv:


soft error

(electronics, computing) A type of transient error where a signal or datum is momentarily wrong, caused for example by an ionizing particle striking a chip.


3D IC

integrated circuit
integrated circuit#English

(electronics) Initialism of three-dimensional integrated circuit.


ACW

(mathematics, electronics) Abbreviation of anticlockwise.


power cord

(electronics) A cable that connects an electrical appliance to a socket.


CCN

(electronics) Initialism of controlled-controlled not gate.


GTL

GTL (countable and uncountable, plural GTLs)

Gunning transceiver logic
Gunning transceiver logic#English

(electronics) Initialism of Gunning transceiver logic.


breakout board

(electronics) A minimal PCB with a single component, used for easier prototyping.


bed of nails

(electronics) A device for testing a chip, consisting of an array of spring-loaded pins.


(electronics) 2170 (electrochemical battery of a secondary storage cell)


(electronics) 18650 (electrochemical battery of a secondary storage cell)


post-transistor

during the genesis of solid-state electronics and the post-transistor era of integrated circuits for telecommunications, computers, and digital signal machines

the International Business Machines 360 series, which emerged in the late nineteen‐sixties as a major post-transistor family of general purpose computers.

(context, electronics) belonging to the time (late 1960s) after individual transistors were replaced by integrated circuits


fuzzy controller

fuzzy controller (plural fuzzy controllers)

(computing, electronics) A controller that uses a fuzzy logic ruleset.


point-to-point

From point (“individual element in a larger whole; specific location or place; topic of discussion or debate”) + to + point.

printed circuit board
printed circuit board

Travelling directly from a starting point to an ending point, or from one point to another in a series of points without passing through any intermediate points.

(electronics) Being or relating to a method of manually constructing electronic circuits prior to automation and printed circuit boards, where components were individually mounted on the chassis prior to soldering.

punt-naar-punt

being or relating to a method of manually constructing electronic circuits where components were individually mounted on the chassis prior to soldering


D-sub

Clipping of D-subminiature, from the Cannon part numbering system where such connectors’ designations are prefixed with D.

Some serial ports use a 25-contact D-sub, but with few exceptions, a 25-pin serial D-sub on a PC is male, with the female connector on the cable—the reverse of the parallel-port convention. (Other serial ports use 9-pin D-subs instead.)

1996, Jan Axelson, Parallel Port Complete: Programming, Interfacing & Using the PC’s Parallel Printer Port:

(electronics) an electrical connector with two or more rows of pins or sockets surrounded by a D-shaped metal shield


reballing

BGA reballing requires that the stencil match the ball size, inter-ball distance (pitch) and ball configuration of the chip.

2005 November 15, Mark Pollitt, Sujeet Shenoi, “5.2 Reballing”, in Advances in Digital Forensics: IFIP International Conference on Digital Forensics, National Center for Forensic Science, Orlando, Florida, February 13-16, 2005 (IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology), Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 195:

(electronics) The process of reapplying the balls (protruding contacts) on a ball grid array.


HIL

(electronics, embedded systems) Initialism of Hardware-In-the-Loop.


ICNIRP

(electronics) Initialism of International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection.


latch-up

(electronics) A kind of short circuit caused by the inadvertent creation of a low-impedance path between the power supply rails of a MOSFET circuit.


unlooper

(electronics) A device used to break a smart card's microcontroller out of an infinite loop state that makes it otherwise unusable.


wiring harness

wiring harness (plural wiring harnesses)

Remove and discard cable straps (45) securing front wiring harness (11) to main wiring harness (10) and to fuel cutoff control.

1974, Department of the Army, Direct Support and General Support Maintenance Manual for Carrier, Guided Missile Equipment, Self-propelled, page 4-24:

Today, an automobile assembled in the United States could have a Japanese-built engine, a French transmission, a wiring-harness assembly from Mexico, electrical parts from Brazil, and a radio from Taiwan.

1985, International Trade Commission, The Internationalization of the Automobile Industry and Its Effects on the U.S. Automobile Industry, page vii:

(automotive, electronics) A bundle of insulated wires, often held together with straps or other connectors, that transmit signals or electrical current within a vehicle, electronic device, etc., or between them.


FICT

FICT (countable and uncountable, plural FICTs)

(countable, electronics) Initialism of Fixtureless In-Circuit Test.


in-circuit

an in-circuit test

(electronics) Existing or performed within a circuit.


minigrid

(electronics) A component consisting of conductive horizontal and vertical filaments woven together.


Schmitt trigger

Schmitt trigger (plural Schmitt triggers)

Invented by American scientist Otto H. Schmitt in 1934.

(electronics) A comparator circuit with hysteresis implemented by applying positive feedback to the non-inverting input of a comparator or differential amplifier. It converts an analog signal to a digital one.


PSSD

(electronics) Initialism of portable SSD.


ODR

(electronics) Initialism of octal data rate.


EIDE

(electronics) Initialism of Extended Integrated Drive Electronics.


phase angle

(electronics) Angular component of the vector representation of a sinusoid.


deassert

en-verb

deassert (third-person singular simple present deasserts, present participle deasserting, simple past and past participle deasserted)

deasserts (present singular third-person)
deasserting (participle present)
deasserted (participle past)
deasserted (past)

The controller deasserts this line to allow the talker to place status or data on the data bus.

1985, Vinod Kumar Bansal, Design of Microprocessor Based Systems, Wiley Eastern Limited, →OCLC, page 131:

It therefore inserts a wait state into the third data phase by deasserting IRDY# at the start of clock cycle four.

1999, Don Anderson, PCI System Architecture, Addison-Wesley Professional, →OCLC, page 139:

The third requirement is to deassert the outputs to their inactive state in response to the input conditions being satisfied.

2017, Randal Fulton, Airborne Electronic Hardware Design Assurance: A Practitioner's Guide to RTCA/DO-254, CRC Press:

(electronics) To remove a signal on a line.


line card

(electronics, telecommunications) A modular electronic circuit designed to fit on a separate PCB and interface with a telecommunications access network.


CLV

en-noun

CLV (countable and uncountable, plural CLVs)

(electronics) Initialism of constant linear velocity, a qualifier for the rated speed of an optical drive.


power electronics

(electronics) Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see power, electronics. Electronics for controlling electric power and energy.


overpulse

The algorithm then requires that you multiply the interval by 3 to yield a single overpulse.

1985, EDN, Electrical Design News - Volume 30, page 165:

In an electromagnetic launcher such as a railgun for propelling a projectile at high velocity, an overpulse energy recovery circuit is employed to transfer stored inductive energy from a source inductor to the railgun inductance to propel the projectile down the railgun.

1986, Catalog of Government Patents, page 75:

For example, Intel's earlier Intelligent programming algorithm, which is still required for cerdip parts, uses a one millisecond pulse and an overpulse scheme.

1987, Electronic Packaging and Production:

(electronics) An electric pulse that spikes above normal operating levels.


cold cathode

On the open portions of the platforms the loudspeakers are installed on the cold cathode lighting columns.

1962 June, “The Eastern Region completes the Colchester scheme”, in Modern Railways, page 412:

(electronics) 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, photoelectric emission)


deassertion

deassertion (countable and uncountable, plural deassertions)


VDR

Coordinate term: CDR

voltage divider rule
voltage divider rule#English

voltage division rule
voltage division rule#English

(electronics) Initialism of voltage divider rule or voltage division rule.


voltage divider

voltage divider (plural voltage dividers)

Coordinate term: current divider

(electronics) A type of simple electronic circuit which reduces any input voltage by a fixed factor using sources of impedance (such as resistors) connected in series.

Spannungsteiler

circuit that reduces input voltage using sources of impedance


subswitch

(electronics) A simpler switch that is a component of a more complex switch, used in telephone exchanges or data routing.


subchanneled

(radio, electronics, zoology) Divided into subchannels.


pin header

(electronics) A type of electrical connector, consisting of one or more rows of male pins evenly spaced apart.


TCON

(electronics) display timing controller circuit (ASIC or FPGA)


breadboardable

en-adj

breadboardable (comparative more breadboardable, superlative most breadboardable)

more breadboardable (comparative)
most breadboardable (superlative)

(electronics, of an electronic board or component) That can be installed on a breadboard.


ball grid array

en-noun

ball grid array (plural ball grid arrays)

(electronics) A type of surface mount used to connect integrated circuits to printed circuit boards.


DNI

(electronics) Initialism of do not install.


feedpoint

(electronics) The location on an antenna where radio frequency electrical power is applied.


brick-wall limiter

brick-wall limiter (plural brick-wall limiters)

(electronics) A limiter circuit that completely cuts off signals above a specified threshold, rather than merely attenuating the peaks.


gender mender

(electronics) Synonym of gender changer (“electronic coupling device”)


vactrol

From a trademark introduced by Vactec, Inc. in the 1960s.

(electronics) A resistive opto-isolator.


prescaler

(electronics) A counting circuit used to reduce a high-frequency electrical signal to a lower frequency by integer division.


calligraphic projection

(electronics, computer graphics) 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.


QLC

(countable, electronics) Initialism of quad-level cell.


keybounce

Many of you have experienced what we call “Keybounce” — multiple letters from one keystroke.

1978 November, Radio Shack Microcomputer Newsletter:

A typical inexpensive key will settle down within five milliseconds, so if the keyboard scanning software polls the key less often than this, the controller will effectively miss the keybounce.

2004, Randall Hyde, Write Great Code Volume 1: Understanding the Machine, →ISBN, page 348:

(computer hardware, electronics) Multiple recorded keystrokes from a single press of a key on a computer keyboard due to poor electrical contact.


self-clocking

(telecommunications, electronics) Of a signal: able to be decoded without the need for a separate source of synchronization.


MIMO

(electronics, telecommunications) Ellipsis of MIMO technology. (multiple-input multiple-output technology)

MIMO-ODFM

MIMO orthogonal frequency division multiplexing


misclock

When misclock occurs, it is recorded as an audio datum and an alarm is given.

1978, Journal of the Radio Research Laboratories:

After each phase crossing there is a chance of a misclock being produced by jitter induced phase reversal at subsequent clocking edges.

2002, The 2002 45th Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems, page 562:

We will present a model to determine this minimum difference frequency given the acceptable risk of a misclock.

2002, I Shankar, SA Morris, CG Hutchens, “A novel frequency measurement technique for quartz microbalance systems and other resonator-based sensor systems”, in Proceedings: 2nd ISA/IEEE Sensors for Industry Conference:

(electronics) An error in the synchronization or coordination of the sequence or timing of actions by a device.


misclock

en-verb

misclock (third-person singular simple present misclocks, present participle misclocking, simple past and past participle misclocked)

misclocks (present singular third-person)
misclocking (participle present)
misclocked (participle past)
misclocked (past)

This glitch can misclock the DMA state controller and indirectly mess up the memory unit in use.

1977, Conference Proceedings: Computer Faire, page 288:

We didn't get past the start. It was misclocked opened and we got too much lox flow in the main chamber early.

1995, SSME Post Test Diagnostic System: Systems Section, page 57:

This occurred despite an alignment pin design feature to prevent misclocking. It occurred despite a sensitivity test of the system a few days before liftoff to confirm live activity and correct polarity of all of the rate gyros.

2001, Walter Edward Hammond, Design Methodologies for Space Transportation Systems, page 696:

(electronics) To cause or produce a misclock.


SBH

Schottky barrier height
Schottky barrier height#English

(electronics) Abbreviation of Schottky barrier height.


one-hot

(electronics, computer science) A set of bits with only a single high (1) bit, with the remaining bits low (0).


split-ring

split-ring resonator
split-ring resonator

(electronics) Either of a pair of concentric metallic rings with slits on opposite sides, used in split-ring resonators.


eMMC

(electronics) An embedded (“integrated, non-removable”) MMC (“multimedia card”). An electronic memory module designed to be integrated into devices instead of being a removable card, functioning as a storage device or main drive. A variant of the MultiMediaCard format.


coil whine

(mechanics, electronics) A high-pitched whining sound caused by vibrations of electrical components in a device.


demod

demod (third-person singular simple present demods, present participle demodding, simple past and past participle demodded)

demods (present singular third-person)
demodding (participle present)
demodded (participle past)
demodded (past)

General Instrument now claims compression rate of 14 to 1. Also the signal is not demodded at the cable headend, just some form of downconversion, then 1 satellite transponder W/14 services then becomes 14 services in a 6 mhz TV channel.

1997 May 23, Lee Haefele, “Re: All TV ?”, in rec.video.cable-tv (Usenet):

(transitive, electronics, informal) To demodulate.


demod

The saleperson said that Yamaha didn't realize the popularity of demods and they will start production soon after some engineering updates/improvements and they expect delivery in May.

1999 March 12, JackH35785, “Re: Anybody know a cheap source for an AC-3 RF Demodulator?”, in alt.video.laserdisc (Usenet):


brightup

The effect of parasitic brightup of the picture tube glass on the accuracy of position measurements is considered.

1969, V. D. Andreev, Theory of Internal Navigation Aided Systems (page 230)

Any variation of the apparent start of the trace indicates a brightup (unblanking) pulse with a poor leading edge, […]

1971, Leslie Ernest Weaver, Television Measurement Techniques, page 358:

An additional output from the timebase section is the blanking pulse which biases back the grid of the c.r.t. during flyback; this may be supplemented by a “brightup' pulse which switches the beam on during the forward stroke

1973, Ian Robertson Sinclair, Understanding Electronic Circuits, page 184:

[…] but instead are used to modulate the oscilloscope brightness, one brightup of the beam corresponding to each fringe maximum.

2013, C. F. Barnett, M. F. A. Harrison, Plasmas: Applied Atomic Collision Physics, Vol. 2 - Volume 2, page 201:

(electronics) A pulse of the beam (cathode ray) in a cathode ray tube that causes a blank screen to fluoresce.


CTI

(electronics, telecommunications) Initialism of Computer Telephony Integration.


SPI

en-noun

SPI (countable and uncountable, plural SPIs)

Serial Peripheral Interface
w:Serial Peripheral Interface

(electronics) Initialism of Serial Peripheral Interface.


cycloconverter

(electronics) A device that modifies alternating current to a lower frequency without converting it to direct current


nonode

(electronics) A thermionic valve that has nine internal electrodes (typically including seven grids)


monoscope

(electronics) A device that produced a single video image


charactron

Originally a trademark, presumably character + -tron.

(electronics) A form of cathode ray tube used to display letters and other characters


typotron

Originally a trademark, presumably type + -o- + -tron.


cycloconversion

(electronics) The modification of alternating current to a lower frequency without converting it to direct current.


Voc

(electronics, physics) Alternative form of VOC; from V_(OC); Initialism of open-circuit voltage.


Gunning transceiver logic

Invented by William Gunning while working for Xerox.

(electronics) 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.


extension lead

(electronics, UK, Ireland) extension cord


extension reel

(electronics) An extension lead that rolls up, usually into the socket end, which in some cases has more than one socket on it (often 2 or 4).


roll off

en-verb

roll off (third-person singular simple present rolls off, present participle rolling off, simple past and past participle rolled off)

rolls off (present singular third-person)
rolling off (participle present)
rolled off (participle past)
rolled off (past)

rolled-off highs

(electronics) To show reduced response at the upper or lower limits of a frequency range.


chiplet

(electronics) Any of the integrated circuits making up a multi-chip module (MCM).


MCM

en-noun

MCM (countable and uncountable, plural MCMs)

(electronics) Initialism of multi-chip module.


overscaling

(electronics) Adjustment of a parameter to exceed a normal limit


NPN

An NPN, in conjunction with a PNP and resistors, can be used to create logic gates.

NPN transistor
w:Bipolar junction transistor#NPN


superregenerator

(electronics) A superregenerative device


unilateralization

unilateralization (countable and uncountable, plural unilateralizations)


multigated

(electronics) That has multiple gates on a single transistor device


firm error

(electronics, computing) A type of error where a signal or datum becomes wrong and stays wrong until the equipment is power-cycled, but does not physically damage the equipment's hardware.


hard error

(electronics, computing) A type of error which persists even after power-cycling the equipment; associated with permanent physical damage to the equipment's hardware (for instance, from a latch-up).


power-cycle

en-verb

power-cycle (third-person singular simple present power-cycles, present participle power-cycling, simple past and past participle power-cycled)

power-cycles (present singular third-person)
power-cycling (participle present)
power-cycled (participle past)
power-cycled (past)

If the computer's frozen, try power-cycling it.

(electronics, computing) To turn a device off and then back on again, usually to restore proper function by forcing a malfunctioning or unresponsive device to reset or reinitialize, or as a step in troubleshooting the device.


wobbulate

wobbulate (third-person singular simple present wobbulates, present participle wobbulating, simple past and past participle wobbulated)

wobbulates (present singular third-person)
wobbulating (participle present)
wobbulated (participle past)
wobbulated (past)

(electronics) To oscillate between two frequencies, typically by means of a wobbulator


wobbulation

en-noun

wobbulation (usually uncountable, plural wobbulations)

(electronics) oscillation between two frequencies, typically by means of a wobbulator


eFuse

(electronics) An on-chip microscopic fuse used to configure a circuit.


thin-film

(electronics) (of a circuit, electronic, etc.) Made with thin films deposited on a ceramic or glass substrate.


RFFE

(electronics, telecommunications) Initialism of radio frequency front end.


pseudochannel

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-pseudochannel.wav

We may regard the signals to the three speakers as coming from three pseudochannels, having certain signal-to-crosstalk ratios. The ratios for each pseudochannel are those between the voltage, produced by a signal in the pseudochannel, across the intended speaker; and the voltages, produced by that same signal, across the other two speakers.

1961, IRE Transactions on Audio - Volumes 9-10, page 75:

All data to and from primary memory in the IBM/360 model 30 are transmitted over 8-bit (plus parity) data paths including the pseudochannels.

1986, G. W. Gorsline, Computer Organization: Hardware/software, page 250:

For the purpose of over-the-cell routing, the channel intersection graph is extended by pseudochannels.

2000, George Zobrist, VLSI Design Environments, page 31:

A pseudochannel gain is introduced to convert cooperative transmissions to virtual direct transmissions,” researchers in South Korea report.

2012, Issues in Transportation Research and Application, page 300:

The agents.conf file is used to define agents for queues using the agents channel. This channel is similar in nature to the other channel types in Asterisk (local, SIP, IAX2, etc.), but it is more of a pseudochannel in that it is used to connect callers to agents who have logged into the system using other types of transport channel.

2013, Russell Bryant, Leif Madsen, Jim Van Meggelen, Asterisk: The Definitive Guide: The Future of Telephony Is Now, page 349:

ENEOS can inject various stress and monitoring signals into a pseudochannel (e.g., the embedded operating channel of the SONET, the extended super frame data channel of T1 links, and the management channel of proprietary networks).

2017, Wayne C. Bradley, Handbook of Data Center Management:

(electronics, communication) Any data channel that is introduced as a theoretical pathway that does not correspond to a physical channel.


subsignal

(electronics) Any part of a signal that is formed by a combination from several sources


subraster

(electronics) A subset or subgrid of a raster.


octode

(dated, electronics) A thermionic valve that has eight electrodes or similar elements


multiar

(electronics) A device which produces an output signal when a varying voltage applied at one input exceeds an adjustable constant voltage applied at another


alligator clamp

alligator clamp (plural alligator clamps)


digital pre-distortion

digital pre-distortion (countable and uncountable, plural digital pre-distortions)

(electronics) A technique used to increase linearity or compensate for nonlinearity in power amplifiers.


single data rate

(electronics) A communication signaling technique that transfers data on either the rising edge or the falling edge of the clock signal.


octal data rate

(computing, electronics) A memory interface which performs eight bits per clock cycle per lane


uncrowbarred

(electronics) Not equipped with a crowbar circuit.


thermal design power

(electronics) The maximum amount of heat generated by a computer chip or component which the cooling system in a computer is designed to dissipate under any workload.


polyswitch

(electronics) Synonym of resettable fuse


resettable fuse

resettable fuse (plural resettable fuses)

(electronics) A passive electronic component used to protect against overcurrent faults in circuits.


surface-mount technology

Coordinate term: through-hole technology

(electronics) A method in which the electrical components are mounted directly onto the surface of a printed circuit board.


solder stop

(electronics) The material of such a mask.


NSMD

(electronics) Initialism of non-solder mask defined.


solder mask

(electronics) A thin lacquer-like layer of polymer that is usually applied to the copper traces of a printed circuit board for protection against oxidation and to prevent solder bridges from forming between closely spaced solder pads.


surface-mount

surface-mount capacitor

(electronics) Of electronic components, able to be soldered on top of printed circuit boards.

pintaliitos-

of electronic components, able to be soldered on top of printed circuit board

surface-mount assembly

(electronics) Pertaining or relating to the technology of soldering electronic components on top of printed circuit boards.

pintaliitos-

pertaining or relating to the technology


HLS

(automation, electronics) Abbreviation of high-level synthesis.


ring modulation

ring modulation (countable and uncountable, plural ring modulations)

So called because the analog circuit of diodes originally implementing this technique took the shape of a ring.

(electronics) A signal processing function in which two signals (typically a complex signal and a less complex carrier such as a sine wave) are combined to yield an output.


magnetic strip

(electronics, computing) A strip of magnetic material on which data is stored for later retrieval and reading by an electronic device.


one-cold

One-cold encoding has the same advantages and disadvantages as one-hot. The difference is that the active bit is logic zero rather than logic one. One-cold encoding is most useful for systems that have active-low enable signals.

2015, Ronald W. Mehler, Digital Integrated Circuit Design Using Verilog and Systemverilog, Elsevier, →ISBN, page 410:

(electronics, computer science) A set of bits with only a single low (0) bit, with the remaining bits high (1).


toby box

(electronics) A box containing a service (fiber optic microducts, mains water, etc.) set into the street or verge for connection to a property, typically containing a shutoff valve to allow for maintenance at the connected property.


hot microphone

When the captain asked, "What's happening? What's happening?" at 0150:06, his words were not recorded by the hot microphone at the first officer's position; however, the hot microphone recorded the captain's subsequent remarks until it stopped recording cockpit conversation at 0150:25. (None of the relief first officer's comments during the accident sequence were recorded by the hot microphone. For additional information, see the section titled, "Audio Information Recorded by First Officer's Hot Microphone.")

2002 March 13, National Transportation Safety Board, “Events After the Command Captain Returned to the Cockpit”, in Aircraft Accident Brief: EgyptAir Flight 990, Boeing 767-366ER, SU-GAP, 60 Miles South of Nantucket, Massachusetts, October 31, 1999, archived from the original on 2022-05-11, page 62:

(electronics, especially aviation) 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.


center tap

(electronics) A contact made to a point halfway along a winding of a transformer or inductor.


purple plague

(chemistry, electronics) The brittle, bright-purple intermetallic compound AuAl₂, formed when gold and aluminium are heated while in direct contact (for instance, if a gold wire is bonded to an aluminium contact pad and experiences heating due to electrical resistance).

(electronics) The problems caused by the formation of this compound, including the formation of voids in the contact area and the potential for fracture of the gold-aluminium junction.


IOT

inductive output tube
w:inductive output tube

(electronics) Initialism of inductive output tube.


compand

en-verb

compand (third-person singular simple present compands, present participle companding, simple past and past participle companded)

compands (present singular third-person)
companding (participle present)
companded (participle past)
companded (past)

(electronics, transitive) To subject to a companding process.


sand battery

(electronics, historical) An unspillable electrochemical battery whose cells use electrolyte soaked sand – typically used to test telegraph cables at sea.


battery pack

(electronics) 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.

akusto

set of connected batteries or battery cells


memistor

From memory + resistor, coined by Bernard Widrow in 1960.

(electronics) A resistor with memory able to perform logic operations and store information.


quartz crystal

(electronics) A small crystal of quartz accurately cut in certain directions so that it can be vibrated at a particular frequency, to produce an electric signal of constant known frequency.


digital meter

(electronics) A type of measuring device which records the use of electricity and water, and which then electronically reports the usage to a utility company at regular intervals.


digital signal processing

(electronics, technology) The use of digital processing, such as by computers or more specialized digital signal processors, to perform a wide variety of signal processing operations.


digital electronics

(electronics, technology) A field of electronics involving the study of digital signals and the engineering of devices that use or produce them.


axial lead

an axial-lead resistor

(electronics, chiefly attributive) An electrical component with two leads (wires) extending out in opposite directions (along a single axis).


squegger

(electronics) An irregular oscillator, one exhibiting squegging.


second source

(electronics) A company that is licensed to manufacture and sell electronic components originally designed by another company (the first source).


antimetry

(electronics) A property of an electrical network where the normalised impedance of one port is the reciprocal of another.


load voltage

(electronics) The voltage that is able to be supplied by a power source to be consumed by the electrical load.


solion

(electronics, historical) An electrochemical device of the 1950s, intended to replace the transistor in certain situations, and using ions rather than electrons to carry electrical charge.


ballout

(electronics) The pinout of a ball grid array integrated circuit.


PARD

This article describes a power supply conditioning circuit that can reduce Periodic And Random Deviations (PARD) on the output voltages of DC power supplies...

1987, “Power supply conditioning circuit”, in JPL DSN Progress Report 42-90, page 1:

(electronics) Acronym of periodic and random deviations, a form of electrical noise.


current divider

en-noun

current divider (plural current dividers)

Coordinate term: voltage divider

(electronics) A simple electronic circuit which reduces an input current by a fixed factor using sources of impedance (such as resistors) connected in parallel.


nodal analysis

Kirchhoff's current law
Kirchhoff's current law

(electronics) A method of solving for the voltages of nodes in an electric circuit, in which a system of equations is written for the currents (using Kirchhoff's current law) at each node.


mesh current

(electronics) In mesh analysis: a construct representing a component of current associated with a particular mesh (loop); the real current on a wire is the sum of the (either positive of negative, depending on direction) mesh currents running through it.


mesh analysis

Kirchhoff's voltage law
Kirchhoff's voltage law

(electronics) A method of solving for the currents in an electric circuit, in which a system of equations is written for mesh currents (using Kirchhoff's voltage law) around each mesh (loop).


essential mesh

essential mesh (plural essential meshes)

(electronics) In mesh analysis: a simple mesh (loop) which does not contain any other meshes.


supermesh

(electronics) In mesh analysis: a mesh (loop) which contains smaller essential meshes.


Thévenin's theorem

Derived in 1883 by French electrical engineer Léon Charles Thévenin; however, it had been independently derived in 1853 by German physicist Hermann von Helmholtz.

(electronics) A theorem which states that any electric circuit between two terminals containing only resistors, voltage sources, and current sources can be equivalently replaced with a single voltage source and resistor.

Hermann von Helmholtz
Léon Charles Thévenin
Thévenin's theorem


Norton's theorem

Derived by American engineer Edward Lawry Norton in 1926; however, it was independently derived on the same year by German physicist Hans Ferdinand Mayer (hence the alternative name Mayer-Norton theorem).

(electronics) A theorem which states that any electric circuit between two terminals containing only resistors, voltage sources, and current sources can be equivalently replaced with a single current source and resistor in parallel.

Edward Lawry Norton
Hans Ferdinand Mayer
Norton's theorem


PoP

PoP (countable and uncountable, plural PoPs)

package on a package
w:package on a package

(electronics) Initialism of package on a package.


cyber transport system

cyber transport system (plural cyber transport systems)

(US, military, electronics) Synonym of computer network


cyber transport systems

cyber transport systems pl (plural only)

(US, military, electronics) Synonym of computer networking


cyber transport

(US, military, electronics) Synonym of networked (“computer networked”); pertaining to computer networks and computer networking


USART

w:universal synchronous and asynchronous receiver-transmitter

(electronics) Initialism of universal synchronous and asynchronous receiver-transmitter.


trimpot

(electronics) Short for trimmer potentiometer.


DIN connector

(electronics) A cylindrical connector consisting of circular pins protected by a circular wall.


pinch roller

(electronics) A rubber wheel that presses tape against a capstan.


CBDC

digital currency
digital currency#English

(finance, electronics, government) Abbreviation of central bank digital currency.


Darlington pair

Darlington pair (plural Darlington pairs)

(electronics) A pair of transistors with the emitter of one connected to the base of the other and the collectors connected together, acting as a transistor with greater amplification.


Sziklai pair

Named after George Clifford Sziklai (1909–1998), Hungarian-American electrical engineer.

(electronics) A configuration of two bipolar transistors, similar to a Darlington pair but having one NPN and one PNP transistor.


tapeout

(electronics) The point at which the design of an integrated circuit is completed and the photomask is sent out for fabrication.


HEI

HEI (countable and uncountable, plural HEIs)

hot-carrier injection
w:hot-carrier injection

(electronics) Initialism of hot-carrier injection.


connectorize

en-verb

connectorize (third-person singular simple present connectorizes, present participle connectorizing, simple past and past participle connectorized)

connectorizes (present singular third-person)
connectorizing (participle present)
connectorized (participle past)
connectorized (past)

Based on these requirements, the most practical bufferings for intrabuilding cabling are tight buffer and composite buffer. Both of these buffering designs are readily connectorized and offer small bend radii […]

1994, Fiber Optic Designs and Applications, page 26:

(electronics, transitive) To fit with connectors.


battery charger

en-noun

battery charger (plural battery chargers)

(electronics) A device that stores energy in a battery by running an electric current through it.


small appliance

small appliance (plural small appliances)

(electronics) A portable or semiportable machine, generally used on tabletops, countertops or other platforms, to accomplish a household task.


major appliance

major appliance (plural major appliances)

(electronics) A nonportable or semiportable machine used for routine housekeeping tasks such as cooking, washing laundry, or food preservation.


pullability

(electronics) The amount of change in frequency of a crystal oscillator in response to a change in load capacitance.


beltpack

(electronics) A radio transceiver worn on a belt and used in conjunction with headphones and microphone.


energy-intensive

en-adj

energy-intensive (comparative more energy-intensive, superlative most energy-intensive)

more energy-intensive (comparative)
most energy-intensive (superlative)


power-intensive

power-intensive (comparative more power-intensive, superlative most power-intensive)

more power-intensive (comparative)
most power-intensive (superlative)


selfie camera

(electronics, photography) A camera on the same side or surface of a smartphone as the main display, used for taking selfies and making video calls.


first-order hold

en-noun

first-order hold (countable and uncountable, plural first-order holds)

electrical engineering
electrical engineering

digital-to-analog converter
digital-to-analog converter

(electronics, electrical engineering) 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.


bus-holder

(electronics) A weak latch circuit that holds the last value on a tristate bus.


time-to-digital converter

time-to-digital converter (plural time-to-digital converters)

(electronics) A device for recognizing events and providing a digital representation of the time they occurred.


envelope detector

envelope detector (plural envelope detectors)

(electronics) An electronic circuit that takes a relatively high-frequency amplitude modulated signal as input and provides as output the demodulated envelope of the original signal.


peak detector

envelope detector
envelope detector#English

(electronics) Synonym of envelope detector


time alignment

(audio, electronics) The process of delaying the sound emanating from one or more drivers in a loudspeaker or sound system to correct the transient response so that the sound output is simultaneous.


time-aligned

(audio, electronics) Of a sound system, in which the speakers are configured correctly to eliminate timing problems, so that the sound produced by each driver arrives in the listener's ear at the same time.


tristated

the data out drivers are tristated

1984, Northcon/84: Mini/Micro Northwest-84 Conference Record, page 8:

Even after the output enable signal is true, the output remains tristated until the senseamp's cross coupled latch has resolved the data value, […]

2012, Anantha P. Chandrakasan, Robert W. Brodersen, Low Power Digital CMOS Design, page 336:

(electronics) In a high-impedance state that is neither the high output state nor the low output state, and allows other devices to drive the bus without interference from the tristate buffer.


summator

(electronics) A logic circuit or other electronic device whose output is the sum of two or more input signals or values.


CPLD

complex programmable logic device
w:complex programmable logic device

(electronics) Initialism of complex programmable logic device.


low-powered

(electricity, electronics) Possessing little power or capacity.


memory bank

(electronics) A hardware-dependent logical unit of storage in an electronic.


decade box

(electronics) A piece of test equipment used during prototyping of circuits to vary the resistance, capacitance, or inductance by means of a knob or switch.


clearance time

clearance time (countable and uncountable, plural clearance times)

In Fig. 12.5.6A, for example, a fault occurring at point F is detected by the busbar protection which trips the circuit breaker. It is clear, therefore, that the fault will not be disconnected, except possibly by back-up protection involving a long clearance time.

1995, Electricity Training Association, Institution of Electrical Engineers, Power System Protection, page 50:

The amount of time it takes from the initiation of a process until it is completed.

(electricity, electronics) The amount of time from when a fault is detected to when a circuit is automatically reopened.


rise time

rise time (countable and uncountable, plural rise times)

Coordinate term: fall time

(electronics) Of a voltage or current step function, the amount of time taken by a signal to change from a specified low value to a specified high value.


connect time

connect time (countable and uncountable, plural connect times)

(electronics) The amount of time that a circuit is in use, usually in a circuit-switched environment.


fall time

fall time (countable and uncountable, plural fall times)

(electronics) The amount of time taken for the amplitude of a pulse to decrease from a specified value to another specified value.


time-varying

(electricity, electronics) Referring to any voltage of a varying time, current or an electromagnetic wave carrying information.


frame-alignment recovery time

frame-alignment recovery time (uncountable)

(electronics, telecommunications) 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.


transition time

transition time (countable and uncountable, plural transition times)

(electricity, electronics) The amount of time required for the switch output to settle within a given percentage of the final value following a change in the control input level.


hold time

hold time (countable and uncountable, plural hold times)

Coordinate term: setup time

(electronics) The minimum amount of time for which the data input should be held steady after the clock event for reliable sampling.


storage time

storage time (countable and uncountable, plural storage times)

In this article, we report the first long-term measurements of storage time at room temperature.

1995, W. Xie, G.M. Johnson, Y.Wang, J.A. Cooper, Jr., J.W. Palmour, L.A. Lipkin, M.R. Melloch, C. H. Carter, Jr., “Cell Design and Peripheral Logic for Nonvolatile Random Access Memories in 6H-SiC”, in Herb Goronkin, Umesh Kumar Mishra, editor, Compound Semiconductors 1994, page 395:

Each device has its own storage time which may vary from device to device and again it varies with the magnitude of anode current .

2005, PC Sen, Modern Power Electronics, page 110:

Energy density and storage time are the key parameters to be considered when disucssing storage systems.

(electronics) The amount of time that an electronic device can store energy.


pulse repetition time

pulse repetition time (countable and uncountable, plural pulse repetition times)

(electronics, radio) The elapsed time from the beginning of one pulse to the beginning of the next pulse.


repetition time

repetition time (countable and uncountable, plural repetition times)

(radio, electronics) The amount of time from the application of an excitation pulse to the application of the next pulse.


propagation time

propagation time (countable and uncountable, plural propagation times)

(electronics, electrical engineering) In a digital circuit, the amount of time required for a signal or wave to travel from one point of a transmission medium to another.


standby time

standby time (countable and uncountable, plural standby times)

(electronics, telephony, technology) The maximum amount of time in which a mobile phone can be continuously turned on and ready to communicate.


setup time

setup time (countable and uncountable, plural setup times)

Coordinate term: hold time

(electronics) The minimum amount of time for which the data input should be held steady before the clock event for reliable sampling.


time-delay relay

time-delay relay (plural time-delay relays)

(electronics) A type of relay consisting of a built-in time delay function.


pumping time

pumping time (countable and uncountable, plural pumping times)

The setting time should never exceed the pumping time, and preferably should be about half of the total pumping time.

1971, ASTM International (publisher), Sampling of Soil and Rock, page 54:

Instantaneous discharge from aquifer storage does not occur, but storativity does approach a constant value with increasing pumping time.

2001, Michael Kasenow, Applied Ground-water Hydrology and Well Hydraulics, page 384:

Inclusion of a linear current booster (LCB) extends the useful pumping time of the pump motor and enables the use of a smaller motor and a smaller array that is utilized more efficiently.

2004, Roger A. Messenger, Jerry Ventre, Photovoltaic Systems Engineering, Second Edition, page 117:

(electronics, engineering) The amount of time a pump is in operation.


time delay and integration clock

time delay and integration clock (plural time delay and integration clocks)

time delay and integration clocks (plural)

(electronics) A time delay device forming part of a readout integrated circuit.


Early effect

Named after American electrical engineer James M. Early who discovered the effect.

(electronics) The variation in the effective width of the base in a bipolar junction transistor due to a variation in the applied base-to-collector voltage.


Gunn effect

Named after British physicist J. B. Gunn who discovered the effect in 1962.

(electronics) The generation of high-frequency (usually microwave) oscillations within a semiconductor whenever an applied DC voltage exceeds its threshold value.


clock skew

(electronics) 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.


memory effect

(electronics) The situation in which nickel-cadmium rechargeable batteries gradually lose their maximum energy capacity if they are repeatedly recharged after being only partially discharged.


Miller effect

Named after John Milton Miller who discovered the effect.

(electronics, electrical engineering) The increase in the equivalent input capacitance of an inverting voltage amplifier due to amplification of the effect of capacitance between the amplifier's input and output terminals.


Meissner oscillator

Meissner oscillator (plural Meissner oscillators)

Armstrong oscillator
Armstrong oscillator#English

(electronics, less common) Synonym of Armstrong oscillator


Armstrong oscillator

Armstrong oscillator (plural Armstrong oscillators)

(electronics) An electronic oscillator circuit which uses an inductor and capacitor to generate an oscillation.


frequency domain

frequency domain (plural frequency domains)

(mathematics, physics, electronics) The analysis of mathematical functions or signals with respect to frequency, and possibly a phase, rather than time.


time-domain reflectometer

time-domain reflectometer (plural time-domain reflectometers)

(physics, electronics) An electronic instrument used to determine the characteristics of electrical lines by observing reflected pulses.


time-domain reflectometry

(physics, electronics) A technique used to track faults in networks, such as cable breaks or loose connections, in which a pulse of a known shape is transmitted over the network and an echo is created when the pulse strikes an obstacle or cable end.


PGND

(electronics) Abbreviation of power ground.


on silent

(electronics, mobile telephony) A setting on an electronic device that prevents it from producing noise when it receives a call or a message, such as an alert or a notification.


clockrate

(electronics) Rate of clock pulses in an electronic circuit. Alternative form of clock rate.


tech giant

(electronics, business, often in the plural) A large company or corporation which works in the technology industry.


tag strip

(electronics) Solder tags/lugs on a strip used to connect wires by soldering.

terminal strip

Mostly used with strips using screws to establish the connection.


logic high

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(electronics) In binary logic one of the two levels a signal can have.


pull-down resistor

pull-down resistor (plural pull-down resistors)

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(electronics) A resistor that is connected between a signal and ground in a circuit to ensure that the signal is at a low logic level.


logic low

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-logic low.wav


logic level

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-logic level.wav

(electronics) One of a finite number of states (usually two) that a digital signal can have.


mica insulator

(electronics) A sheet of electric insulator material made from mica placed between a power semiconductor device and the heat sink.


cavity magnetron

cavity magnetron (plural cavity magnetrons)

particle accelerator
particle accelerator

(electronics) A high-power vacuum tube used in early radar systems and subsequently in microwave ovens and in linear particle accelerators.