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Digital Electronics Vocab

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1. Milli






2. 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.






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






4. F and Hertz (Hz) or Cycles per sec.






5. Insulating board containing conductive tracks for circuit connections.






6. 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.






7. V or E and Volt (V)






8. P and Watt (W)






9. C and Farad (F)






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






11. Nano






12. Abbreviation of System International - a system of practical units based on the meter - kilogram - second - ampere - Kelvin - mole - and candela.






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






14. A square IC package with leads on all four sides designed for surface mounting on a circuit board.






15. I and Ampere or Amp (A)






16. Tool with an internal heating element used to heat surfaces being soldered to the point where the solder becomes molten.






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






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






19. Milli






20. An electrical device used to store electrical charge.






21. 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.






22. 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.






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






24. Tera






25. Insulating board containing conductive tracks for circuit connections.






26. C and Farad (F)






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






28. 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






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/






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






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






32. 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.






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






34. A series of logic 1s and 0s plotted as a function of time.






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






36. 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.






37. P and Watt (W)






38. 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.






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






40. Mega






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






42. 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.






43. 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






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






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






46. A series of logic 1s and 0s plotted as a function of time.






47. 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.






48. Micro






49. Are and Ohms






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