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NU Horizons - Electronics acronyms Category: Electronics and Engineering > Electronics Acronyms Date & country: 29/03/2012, USA Words: 76

N-CHANNEL
Negative-type Material Channel (MOSFET)

L2CAP
Logical Link Control and Adaption Protocol (part of Bluetooth Software Stack)

VCO
Voltage Controlled Oscillator

G-FSK
Gaussian Frequency Shift Keying

TRIAC
Triode AC switch

USB
Universal Serial Bus www.usb.org

TO
Transistor Outline (JEDEC Designation)

SOT
Small Outline Transistor

TDMI
Thumb© Instruction, Debugger, Multiplier, ICE (powerful set of features of the ARM CPU)

SOI
Silicon on Insulator(chip techcnology)

SMD
Surface Mounted Device

SIMOX
Seperation by iMplantation of OXygen (chip process technology)

SEM
Scanning Electron Microscope

SDK
Software Development Kit

SAW
Surface Acoustic Wave (filter)

SCR
Silicon Controlled Rectifier

RF
Radio Frequency

QPL
Qualified Parts List

QoS
Type(s) of quality of service/priority-engines supported: Source Port, MAC Address, IEEE 802.1p, TOS-field (DiffServ)

POS
Packet over SONET. A metropolitan area network or wide area network transport technology that carries IP packets directly over SONET transmission without any data link facility.

PNP
Positive/Negative/Positive structure (Bipolar Transistor)

PLL
Phase Locked Loop

PMOS
P-channel Metal-Oxide Semiconductor

PIN
Particle Impact Noise

Physical layer
An integrated circuit that performs an interface function between the communications system and the physical media.

NPN
Negative/Positive/Negative structure (Bipolat Transistor)

NMOS
N-channel Metal-Oxide Semiconductor MOSFET)

MOSFET
Metal-Oxide Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor

MIPSâ„¢
Millions of instructions per second.

MIL-S-19500
Military Specification Discrete Semiconductors

MIL-STD-750
Military Standard Test Methods for MIL-S-19500

MIL-I-4520
MIL Specification Inspections Specification

MIL-C-45662
Calibration Requirements

MIL-Q-9858
MIL Specification Quality Specification

MCP
Multi-Chip Package

Metropolitan Area Network
A network that connects computers within a metropolitan area such as a city.

LNA
Low Noise Amplifier

LMP
Link Manager Protocol (part of Bluetooth Software Stack)

JTAG
Joint Test Action Group (interface for in-circuit debugging and testing)

JEDEC
Joint Electron Device Engineering Council

JFET
Junction Field-Effect Transistor

JANTX
Joint Army/Navy with eXtra Testing requirements

JANTXV
JANTX with Visual inspection requirements

JANS
Joint Army/Navy

JAN
Joint Army/Navy

ISM
Industrial, Scientific, Medical (a global, public radio frquency band, 2.4GHz)

IRM
Image Rejection Mixer

IRM
Input monitoring rate. Incoming packets are monitored on a per-flow basis for bandwidth reservation and conformance checking.

IF
Intermediate Frequency

ICE
In-Circuit Emulator

IC
Integrated circuit. Miniaturized circuitry on a silicon chip designed and connected into logic blocks to perform a specialized task.

HCI
Host Controller Interface

GSI
Government Source Inspection (or Government Inspector)

Gm-C
Transconductance component filter tuning technique employing comparison of reference clock with the oscillator frequency, resulting in adjustment of frequency characteristics of the Gm-C filter.

FHSS
Frequency Hopping Spread Spectrum

FET
Field-Effect Transitor

FEC
Forward Error Correction

EPI
Epitaxial Layer

ESD
Electrostatic Discharge

EHI
External hardware interface

DO
Diode Outline (JEDEC Designation)

DIAC
Diode AC switch

DESC
Defense Electronic Supply Center

DCAS
Defense Contract Administration Service

CVSD
Continuous Variable Slope Delta Modulation

CSP
Chip Size Package

CPU
Central Processing Unit. The brain of any computer system consisting of data registers, computational circuits, a control block, and I/O (input/output).

CMOS FET
Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor FET

CMOS
Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor. A technology that creates integrated circuits that use less power than those made with other MOS (metal oxide semiconductor) or bipolar processes.

Bluetooth SIG
Bluetooth Special Interest Group www.bluetooth.org

Bluetooth
Commemorates a Danish king of the 10th century who unified Denmark and Norway. Nowadays, Bluetooth unifies communication devices with computing devices wirelessly.

BGA
Ball Grid Array(IC package)

ATM
Asynchronous Transfer Mode. A network technology for both local area networks and wide area networks that supports real-time voice, video and data.

ARM7
32-Bit RISC CPU core designed by ARM Ltd., UK

AQL
Acceptance Quality Level

AMBA
Advanced Microcontroller Bus Architecture (internal bus of ARM CPU)