Engineering Glossary
Do you know your Accumulator from your Zener diode? Can you tell the difference between an EPROM and an EEPROM? Whether you are a novice to the electronics world or you just need to brush up on some of the terminology, Farnell has the world's definitive Electronic Glossary on all things electronic.
A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z |
A
- Actuating force
- Actuator
- ADC
- Advanced Very Large Scale Integration
- ALU
- American Standard Code for Information Interchange
- Analogue
- Analogue DI
- Analogue oscilloscope
- Analogue semi-custom
- Analogue signal processing
- Angular Velocity
- Application Specific Integrated Circuit
- Application specific standard product
- Arithmetic logic unit
- ASCII
- ASIC
- ASSP
- AVLSI
B
C
- Capacitor
- Capacitor Microphone
- Capacitor-Start Motor
- Capture Ratio
- Carbon Microphone
- Carbon Resistor
- Card Cage
- Card Extractor
- Card Stiffener
- Cardbus
- Carrier
- Carrier Frequency
- Carrier Wave
- Cartridge Fuse
- Cascade Amplifier
- Cascading
- Case Temperature
- Caster
- CdsSPICE
- Central Processing Unit
- Chip carrier
- Chip/Die
- Chip-level integration
- Chip-On-Board
- CIM
- Circuit
- Circuit simulation
- CISC
- Class 'B'
- Class 'S'
- Closed architecture
- CMOS
- CMOS2, CMOS3, CMOS35
- COB
- Collector
- Communication triggering
- Comparator
- Compiler
- Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor
- Complex Instruction Set Computer
- Computer-Aided Design
- Computer-Aided Engineering
- Computer-Aided Manufacturing
- Computer-Integrated Manufacturing
- Conductor
- Controller Area Network
- Converter
- CPU
- Current
- Current probe
- Custom integrated circuit
D
E
F
G
H
I
- Incandescent Light Bulb
- Incident Wave
- In-Circuit Meter
- Incoherent
- Input/Output
- Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistor
- Insulated Gate Field-Effect Transistor
- Insulation Displacement Connector
- Insulator
- Integrated Circuit
- Integrated Drive Electronics
- Integrated Injection Logic
- Intelligent DiscreteTM
- Intelligent Power ICTM
- Inverse Feedback Counter
J
K
L
M
- Machine Language
- Machine Tool Transformer
- Magic-T Junction
- Magnet Wire
- Magnetic Amplifier
- Magnetic Circuit
- Magnetic Field
- Magnetic Flux
- Magnetic Head
- Magnetic Hysteresis Loop
- Magnetic induction
- Magnetic Lines of Force
- Magnetic Microphone
- Magnetic Poles
- Magnetic Trip Element
- Magnetism
- Magnetron Oscillator
- Magnitude Comparator
- Main Lobe
- Make-Before-Break
- Manchester Encoding
- Mark
- Marking
- Mask
- Mask ROM
- Master Oscillator
- Master Oscillator Power Amplifier
- Master-Slave Flip Flop
- Master-Slave Timing
- Matched Load
- Matching Transformer
- Maximal Length Sequence
- Maximum Clock Frequency
- Maximum Limit
- Maximum Power Dissipation
- Maximum Ratings
- Maximum Safe Operating Area
- Maximum Usable Frequency
- Maxterm
- Maxwell
- Maxwell Bridge
- MCT
- MCU
- MDO
- Medium-Scale Integration
- MegaFET
- Memory
- Memory integrated circuit
- MESFET
- Metal Oxide Semiconductor
- Metal Oxide Semiconductor Field Effect Transistor
- Metal-Oxide Varistor
- Metal–Semiconductor Field Effect Transistor
- Microcomputer
- Microcontroller
- Microprocessor
- Mil
- Mixed Domain Oscilloscope
- Mixed Signal Oscilloscope
- MOPA
- MOS
- MOS Controlled Thyristor
- MOS transistor
- MOSFET
- MOV
- MPU
- MSI
- MSO
- Multilayer TVS
- Multiplexer
- Multiplexing
- Multiplier
- Mux
N
O
P
- Package type
- Packet
- Packet Format
- Packet Switching
- Pad
- Pad Layout
- Paired Cable
- Paper Capacitor
- Parabolic Reflector
- Parallax Error
- Parallel Circuit
- Parallel Data
- Parallel Port
- Parallel Tuned Circuit
- Parallel-Negative Limiter
- Parallel-Positive Limiter
- Parallel-Resonant Circuit
- Parallel-to-Serial Converter
- Parametric Amplifier
- Paraphase Amplifier
- Parasitic Capacitance
- Parasitic Oscillation
- Photoresist
- Pin-Grid Array
- Plastic Leaded Chip Carrier
- Plastic Quad Flat Pack
- PLCC
- PMOS
- P-N junction
- PNP transistor
- Potential Failure Mode and Effects Analysis
- Power BiMOS
- Power MOSFET
- Power transistor
- PQFP
- Printed circuit
- Probe
- Programmable Read-Only Memory
- PROM or OTP ROM
- P-type semiconductor
- Pulse
- Pulse-Width Modulation
- PWM
Q
R
S
- S/H
- Safe Operating Area
- Safety Factor
- Safety Margin
- Sallen-Key Filter
- Sample and Hold
- Sample rate
- Sampling
- Sampling Interval
- Sampling Oscilloscope
- Sampling Rate
- SAR
- Satellite
- Satellite Eclipse
- Satellite-Sun Conjunction
- Saturable-Core Reactor
- Saturation
- Saw Tooth
- Saw Tooth Oscillator
- S-Band
- Scaling Factor
- Scanning
- Schematic
- Silicon-controlled rectifier
- Sine wave
- Single In-line Package
- SIP
- Small Outline Integrated Circuit
- Small-Scale Integration
- SMD
- SMT
- SO or SOIC
- SOA
- Software
- SPICE
- SRAM
- SSI
- Standard Military Drawing
- Static Random Access Memory
- Stepper
- Successive Approximation Register
- Surface-Mount Technology
- Switch
- Switched capacitor
- System-level integration