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Digital Electronics Vocab

Subject : engineering
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. C and Farad (F)






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






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






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






5. I and Ampere or Amp (A)






6. Pico






7. A circuit board for wiring temporary circuits - usually used for prototypes or laboratory work.






8. Nano






9. Tera






10. 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.






11. An electrical device used to store electrical charge.






12. An IC package similar to a DIP - but smaller - which is designed for automatic placement and soldering on the surface of a circuit board.






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






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






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






16. 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.






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






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






19. Insulating board containing conductive tracks for circuit connections.






20. Mega






21. 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






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






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






24. Giga






25. Are and Ohms






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. Kilo






28. Mega






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






30. Are and Ohms






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






32. A protective device in the current path that melts or breaks when current exceeds a predetermined maximum value.






33. Giga






34. 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.






35. I and Ampere or Amp (A)






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






37. 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/






38. Insulating board containing conductive tracks for circuit connections.






39. 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






40. 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.






41. 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.






42. 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.






43. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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