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Digital Electronics Vocab
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. A very common IC package with two parallel rows of pins intended to be inserted into a socket of through holes drilled in a printed circuit board.
Conventional Current
Fuse
Dual In-Line Package (DIP)
Seven-Segment Display
2. The instantaneous voltage of a waveform. Often used to mean maximum amplitude - or peak voltage - or a pulse.
Current
Amplitude
Engineering Notation
Digital Multimeter
3. Milli
SI Prefix for 10E(-3)
Symbol and Unit for Resistance
Plastic Leaded Chip Carrier (PLCC)
SI Prefix for 10E(-12)
4. Process of joining two metallic surfaces to make an electrical contact by melting solder (usually tin and lead) across them.
Current
Soldering
Digital Waveform
Digital
5. Signal in the form of a rectangular pulse train or a square wave.
Clock Digital
Amplitude
Soldering Iron
Resistor
6. A circuit board for wiring temporary circuits - usually used for prototypes or laboratory work.
Breadboard
SI Prefix for 10E(-12)
SI Prefix for 10E(12)
Plastic Leaded Chip Carrier (PLCC)
7. Circuit that is capable of sensing and holding a signal until the event that changed the signal can be addressed.
Diode
Symbol and Unit for Frequency
Current
Event Detector
8. I and Ampere or Amp (A)
Conductor
Symbol and Unit for Current
Dual In-Line Package (DIP)
Shift Register
9. Signal in the form of a rectangular pulse train or a square wave.
Soldering Iron
Symbol and Unit for Power
Clock Digital
Digital Waveform
10. V or E and Volt (V)
Symbol and Unit for Capacitance
Symbol and Unit for Voltage
Resistor Color Code
Frequency Divider
11. An IC package similar to a DIP - but smaller - which is designed for automatic placement and soldering on the surface of a circuit board.
Solder Bridge
Small Outline IC (SOIC)
Symbol and Unit for Current
Plastic Leaded Chip Carrier (PLCC)
12. C and Farad (F)
Small Outline IC (SOIC)
Symbol and Unit for Frequency
Printed Circuit Board
Symbol and Unit for Capacitance
13. Nano
Analog
Event Detector
Symbol and Unit for Resistance
SI Prefix for 10E(-9)
14. Component made of material that opposes flow of current and therefore has some value of resistance.
Transistor
Symbol and Unit for Frequency
Resistor
Analog
15. Coding system of colored stripes on a resistor to indicate the resistor's value and tolerance.
Resistor Color Code
Atom
SI Notation
SI Prefix for 10E(-6)
16. Process of joining two metallic surfaces to make an electrical contact by melting solder (usually tin and lead) across them.
SI Prefix for 10E(-9)
Symbol and Unit for Resistance
Resistor
Soldering
17. Coding system of colored stripes on a resistor to indicate the resistor's value and tolerance.
Resistor Color Code
Analog
Conductor
Symbol and Unit for Current
18. Pico
SI Prefix for 10E(-12)
Engineering Notation
Analog
Symbol and Unit for Voltage
19. A series of logic 1s and 0s plotted as a function of time.
Solder
LED
Digital Waveform
SI Prefix for 10E(6)
20. Term derived from 'transfer resistor.' Semiconductor device that can be used as an amplifier or as an electronic switch.
Transistor
Digital Waveform
Conventional Current
Analog
21. A way of representing a physical quantity by a series of binary numbers. A digital representation can have only specific discrete values.
Digital
SI Prefix for 10E(12)
Conventional Current
Scientific Notation
22. Metallic alloy of tin and lead that is used to join two metal surfaces.
Breadboard
Resistor
Solder
Analog
23. Milli
Seven-Segment Display
SI Prefix for 10E(-3)
Conventional Current
Seven-Segment Display
24. Are and Ohms
Engineering Notation
Plastic Leaded Chip Carrier (PLCC)
Symbol and Unit for Resistance
SI Prefix for 10E(9)
25. A way of representing some physical quantity - such as temperature or velocity - by a proportional continuous voltage or current. An analog voltage or current can have any value within a defined range.
Small Outline IC (SOIC)
SI Prefix for 10E(-3)
Soldering Iron
Analog
26. The direction of current flow associated with positive charge in motion. The current flow direction is from a positive to negative potential - which is in the opposite direction of electron flow.
Engineering Notation
Conventional Current
Transistor
Digital
27. Numbers entered as a number from one to ten multiplied by a power of ten.
Scientific Notation
Solder Bridge
Diode
Symbol and Unit for Power
28. A group of flip-flops (typically 4 or 8) that are arranged so that the values stored in the flip-flops are shifted from one flip-flop to the next for every clock.
Shift Register
Atom
Printed Circuit Board
Clock Digital
29. Electronic test equipment that can perform multiple tasks. Typically one capable of measuring voltage - current - and resistance. More sophisticated modern digital multimeters also measure capacitance - inductance - current gain of transistors - and/
Digital Waveform
Symbol and Unit for Power
Digital Multimeter
Digital
30. Insulating board containing conductive tracks for circuit connections.
Printed Circuit Board
Atom
Symbol and Unit for Frequency
SI Prefix for 10E(12)
31. Giga
Shift Register
SI Prefix for 10E(6)
SI Prefix for 10E(9)
Transistor
32. The direction of current flow associated with positive charge in motion. The current flow direction is from a positive to negative potential - which is in the opposite direction of electron flow.
Dual In-Line Package (DIP)
SI Prefix for 10E(-12)
Conventional Current
Scientific Notation
33. A movement of electrical charges around a closed path or circuit.
Current
Amplitude
SI Prefix for 10E(3)
SI Prefix for 10E(9)
34. Term derived from 'transfer resistor.' Semiconductor device that can be used as an amplifier or as an electronic switch.
Conductor
SI Prefix for 10E(3)
Transistor
Event Detector
35. A two terminal device that conducts in only one direction.
Printed Circuit Board
SI Prefix for 10E(6)
Diode
Dual In-Line Package (DIP)
36. A square IC package with leads on all four sides designed for surface mounting on a circuit board.
Dual In-Line Package (DIP)
Current
Conventional Current
Plastic Leaded Chip Carrier (PLCC)
37. A floating point system in which numbers are expressed as products consisting of a number greater than one multiplied by an appropriate power of ten that is some multiple of three.
Engineering Notation
Conductor
Soldering
Symbol and Unit for Power
38. Numbers entered as a number from one to ten multiplied by a power of ten.
Soldering Iron
Symbol and Unit for Resistance
Scientific Notation
Small Outline IC (SOIC)
39. F and Hertz (Hz) or Cycles per sec.
Symbol and Unit for Frequency
Small Outline IC (SOIC)
SI Notation
Plastic Leaded Chip Carrier (PLCC)
40. Abbreviation of System International - a system of practical units based on the meter - kilogram - second - ampere - Kelvin - mole - and candela.
Printed Circuit Board
SI Notation
Digital
SI Prefix for 10E(-6)
41. Any material that allows the free movement of electric changes - such as electrons - to provide an electric current.
Atom
Conductor
Symbol and Unit for Frequency
Fuse
42. C and Farad (F)
Symbol and Unit for Capacitance
Analog
Seven-Segment Display
Shift Register
43. A way of representing a physical quantity by a series of binary numbers. A digital representation can have only specific discrete values.
SI Prefix for 10E(3)
Digital
Shift Register
Scientific Notation
44. P and Watt (W)
SI Prefix for 10E(9)
Digital Waveform
Symbol and Unit for Power
Engineering Notation
45. Tool with an internal heating element used to heat surfaces being soldered to the point where the solder becomes molten.
Soldering Iron
Shift Register
Digital Waveform
Symbol and Unit for Current
46. P and Watt (W)
Symbol and Unit for Power
Breadboard
Solder Bridge
SI Notation
47. Mega
SI Prefix for 10E(6)
Atom
Plastic Leaded Chip Carrier (PLCC)
Analog
48. Any material that allows the free movement of electric changes - such as electrons - to provide an electric current.
Conventional Current
Symbol and Unit for Resistance
Solder
Conductor
49. The smallest particle of an element that still has the same characteristics as the element.
Solder
Atom
Conventional Current
Frequency Divider
50. F and Hertz (Hz) or Cycles per sec.
Resistor Color Code
LED
Resistor Color Code
Symbol and Unit for Frequency