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(computing) 8514/Adapter, a video interface card and 4:3 display standard for computers, made obsolete in 1990 by the XGA video standard.
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(computing) shorthand for "eight data bits, no parity, one stop bit", the most common configuration for serial lines, e.g. EIA-232.
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(radio) Automatic Frequency Control (radio & TV technics)
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Acronym of aggregate maximum bit rate.
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A controller of any array of equivalent hardware components.
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(computing) Advanced Technology Attachment; a computer bus technology primarily designed for transfer of data to and from a hard disk. (Renamed PATA when SATA came into existence to more clearly distinguish the two.)
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An ISDN subscriber line that provides two B channels and 1 D channel.
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(computing, telecommunications) A unit of data transmission symbol rate; the number of signalling events per second.
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(computing, informal) A technique for serial communications using software instead of dedicated hardware. The software directly sets and samples the state of pins on the microcontroller.
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(telecommunications) The insertion of non-information bits (binary digits) into a data stream.
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(networking) Excessive buffering of packets which may cause delays (latency) or jitter (latency variation) in packet-switched networks, particularly during high load.
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(computer graphics) Initialism of Color Graphics Adapter, an obsolete computer display standard preceding EGA and VGA, offering a palette of 16 colours, of which only a few could be displayed on screen at one time.
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(electronics) A hybrid device mounted in a substrate, containing electronic circuitry and miniaturised mechanical, chemical and/or biochemical devices.
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(electronics) Any of the integrated circuits making up a multi-chip module (MCM).
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(informal, computing) A microchip manufacturer.
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(electronics) An integrated circuit, typically installed in a personal computer or other electronic devices.
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(countable, electronics) Acronym of digital-to-analog converter. [(electronics) A device that converts a finite resolution digital signal to an infinite resolution analog signal.]
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(electronics) The speed at which data is sent over a data link or channel; generally expressed in bytes per second
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(computing) The transmission speed of a communications channel; measured in bits or bytes per second.
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Alternative spelling of data rate [(electronics) The speed at which data is sent over a data link or channel; generally expressed in bytes per second]
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(electronics, countable) digital signal processor
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(computer hardware) Data Terminal Equipment
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(electronics) An on-chip microscopic fuse used to configure a circuit.
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(electronics) The process of taking a parsed tree of an abstract integrated circuit definition in a language such as Verilog and creating a hierarchy of module instances that ends with primitive (atomic) gates and statements.
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(business) electronics manufacturing service: a type of OEM (original equipment manufacturer) service.
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(computer hardware, semiconductors) A non-final version of an integrated circuit meant for product development, validation, or demonstration purposes.
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(semiconductors) An integrated circuit that is composed of an array of programmable logic devices that do not come pre-connected; the connections are programmed electrically by the user.
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(computer graphics) Extended Video Graphics Array, a computer display standard of the 1990s, supporting non-interlaced graphics at a resolution of 1024×768 pixels.
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(computing) A type of SCSI capable of transferring data at rates up to 10 MB per second on an 8-bit SCSI cable.
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(computing) A type of SCSI capable of transferring data up to 20 megabytes/s on a 16-bit bus.
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(often) FAT16B, the version of this file system storing the number of clusters in a volume as a 16-bit integer but using a 32-bit integer to represent the total number of sectors in a volume, allowing for larger volume and file sizes.
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(informal, uncommon) exFAT.
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A method for interconnecting semiconductor devices to external circuitry with solder bumps that have been deposited onto the chip pads.
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A plant that produces chips out of semiconductors in the microelectronics industry.
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(computing, electronics) A controller that uses a fuzzy logic ruleset.
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(technology) the PowerPC G4 microprocessors produced by Apple.
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(computer hardware) Initialism of graphics processing unit ( an electronic circuit dedicated to generating graphics and displaying images) [(computer hardware) A specialized electronic circuit designed to accelerate the creation of images in a frame buffer intended for output to a display device.]
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(computing) an individual processor in some parallel processing systems
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(computing, of a microprocessor) Composed of six cores.
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An electronic circuit constructed of individual devices bonded to a substrate or PCB.
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a transmission band used in cable television in Europe
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(computing, electrical engineering) input/output
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(computing) in-circuit emulator, in-circuit emulation
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(semiconductors) A thin chip, usually of silicon, consisting of at least two interconnected semiconductor devices, mainly transistors.
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A photonic device that integrates multiple information signals which are composed of light of various wavelengths.
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Input/Output Operation(s) Per Second, a common benchmark for hard disks and other computer storage media.
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(microelectronics) A hermetically sealed top piece on a microchip such as the integrated heat spreader on a CPU.
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(computing) Motherboard.
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(computing) Microchannel Architecture, a computer bus standard (expansion bus) for connecting of internal components.
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(electronics) An integration type for digital circuits that contain hundreds of transistors providing dozens of logic gates per chip.
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(physics) A capacitor with memory, whose capacitance depends on past input.
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An experimental multiterminal electronic component, a combination of memristor and transistor, that might be used in the construction of artificial neural networks.
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(computing, dated, countable) short form of microcomputer
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Integrated circuit; microprocessor.
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The use of microcomputers.
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controlled by a microcontroller
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(computing, electronics) A microcomputer on a single chip, used to control some device such as an automobile engine or a toy.
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(computing) Any of several simpler operations that form a more complex machine instruction
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The use of microprocessors.
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A small networked computer with limited capabilities.
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(computing) million instructions per second
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(computing) A type of SCSI capable of transferring data up to 10 megabytes/s on a 16-bit bus.
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Situated on the same chip (of silicon etc)
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(computing, historical) The character set used by the Commodore PET and related computers.
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(computing) personal navigation device; a portable electrical product to navigate the user
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A programmable electronic device used in industrial automation to provide logic and sequencing controls for machinery.
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Initialism of quadrature amplitude modulation. [(radio) A modulation scheme that conveys data by applying amplitude modulation to two carrier waves at once. These two waves, usually sinusoids, are out of phase with each other by 90° and are thus called quadrature carriers. Commonly abbreviated QAM.]
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(computing, historical) In cathode-ray-tube storage systems, the number of times that a value can be read from a given cell without corrupting adjacent stored values.
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(computer hardware) Serial ATA (Serial Advanced Technology Attachment), a computer bus technology primarily designed for transfer of data to and from a hard disk. It is the successor to the legacy Advanced Technology Attachment (ATA) standard.
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(electronics, communication) Sideband.
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A communications system (or part thereof) characterised by moderately high speeds, the same in each direction
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Any device used to store and retrieve digital information that is manufactured using integrated circuit technology.
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An electronic circuit used to refresh the value of a bit stored in a DRAM integrated circuit.
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(semiconductor industry) A microchip production run that is part of a multi-project wafer service.
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A wafer of silicon on which an integrated circuit has been built; a microchip
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A type of serial line that transmits data at a rate of 1544 (or 1536) kilobits per second.
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(electronics) display timing controller circuit (ASIC or FPGA)
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A model of microprocessor production in which each microarchitecture change is followed with a die shrink of the process technology.
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(electronics) tracks per inch
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(electronics) An integration type for digital circuits that contain more than one million transistors providing hundreds of thousands of logic gates per chip.
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(computing) A version of SCSI that uses an 8-bit bus and supports data rates of up to 20 megabytes/s.
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(telecommunications) symbol duration time.
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(electronics) An integration type for digital circuits that contain hundreds of thousands of transistors providing hundreds of thousands of logic gates per chip.
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Alternative form of very large scale integration [(electronics) An integration type for digital circuits that contain hundreds of thousands of transistors providing hundreds of thousands of logic gates per chip.]
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(electronics) A rarely-used system of building very large integrated circuit networks that use an entire silicon wafer to produce a single "super-chip".
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(computing) A type of SCSI-2 interface which uses a 16-bit bus and supports transfer rates up to 20 megabytes/second.
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(computing) A cross between the Ultra SCSI and Wide SCSI interfaces which uses a 16-bit bus.
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(computing) The (maximum) rate at which data can flow through a cable
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(computer graphics) Initialism of widescreen ultra-extended graphics array: a display resolution of 1920 × 1200 pixels with a 16:10 aspect ratio.
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(computer graphics) Extended Graphics Array, a computer display standard of the 1990s, offering various resolutions and palettes and using a 4:3 aspect ratio.
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Abbreviation of microcontroller. [(computing, electronics) A microcomputer on a single chip, used to control some device such as an automobile engine or a toy.]
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