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Digital Electronics Vocab

Subject : engineering
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1. A solder connection that exhibits poor wetting and is characterized by a grayish - porous appearance due to excessive impurities in the solder - inadequate cleaning prior to soldering - and/or the insufficient application of heat during the soldering






2. A two terminal device that conducts in only one direction.






3. The instantaneous voltage of a waveform. Often used to mean maximum amplitude - or peak voltage - or a pulse.






4. A solder connection that exhibits poor wetting and is characterized by a grayish - porous appearance due to excessive impurities in the solder - inadequate cleaning prior to soldering - and/or the insufficient application of heat during the soldering






5. 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.






6. An array of seven independently controlled light-emitting diodes (LED) or liquid crystal display (LCD) elements - shaped like a figure-8 - which can be used to display decimal digits and other characters by turning on the appropriate elements.






7. The process of applying a thin coat of solder to materials prior to their being soldered; for example - application of a light coat of solder to the filaments of a conductor to hold the filaments in place prior to soldering the conductor.






8. Term derived from 'transfer resistor.' Semiconductor device that can be used as an amplifier or as an electronic switch.






9. V or E and Volt (V)






10. Pico






11. An electrical device used to store electrical charge.






12. An electrical device used to store electrical charge.






13. 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.






14. Metallic alloy of tin and lead that is used to join two metal surfaces.






15. A two terminal device that conducts in only one direction.






16. A movement of electrical charges around a closed path or circuit.






17. Any material that allows the free movement of electric changes - such as electrons - to provide an electric current.






18. Term derived from 'transfer resistor.' Semiconductor device that can be used as an amplifier or as an electronic switch.






19. Tera






20. Tera






21. A circuit the produces a digital output signal that is half the frequency of the input.






22. 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.






23. 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.






24. Signal in the form of a rectangular pulse train or a square wave.






25. The unwanted formation of a conductive path of solder between conductors.






26. The process of applying a thin coat of solder to materials prior to their being soldered; for example - application of a light coat of solder to the filaments of a conductor to hold the filaments in place prior to soldering the conductor.






27. Component made of material that opposes flow of current and therefore has some value of resistance.






28. Micro






29. Process of joining two metallic surfaces to make an electrical contact by melting solder (usually tin and lead) across them.






30. The smallest particle of an element that still has the same characteristics as the element.






31. Giga






32. Are and Ohms






33. Light-emitting diode. An electronic device that conducts current in one direction only and illuminates when it is conducting.






34. Kilo






35. Circuit that is capable of sensing and holding a signal until the event that changed the signal can be addressed.






36. Metallic alloy of tin and lead that is used to join two metal surfaces.






37. I and Ampere or Amp (A)






38. 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.






39. Insulating board containing conductive tracks for circuit connections.






40. A way of representing a physical quantity by a series of binary numbers. A digital representation can have only specific discrete values.






41. Kilo






42. C and Farad (F)






43. Numbers entered as a number from one to ten multiplied by a power of ten.






44. 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/






45. Are and Ohms






46. An array of seven independently controlled light-emitting diodes (LED) or liquid crystal display (LCD) elements - shaped like a figure-8 - which can be used to display decimal digits and other characters by turning on the appropriate elements.






47. 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.






48. The unwanted formation of a conductive path of solder between conductors.






49. Numbers entered as a number from one to ten multiplied by a power of ten.






50. Coding system of colored stripes on a resistor to indicate the resistor's value and tolerance.