Electronics and Technology Acronyms

    A-C        D-F        G-I        J-L        M-O        P-R        S-U      V-Z       

AAS       - Atomic Absorption Spectroscopy.

ABS       - Antilock Braking System.

AC         - Alternating Current.

ACM     - Association for Computing Machinery.

ACS       - American Chemical Society.

A/D        - Analog to Digital.

ADC      - Analog to Digital Converter.

ADO      - ActiveX Data Objects.

ADSL    - Asymmetrical Digital Subscriber Line.

ADT       - Abstract Data Type.

AEM     - Analytical Electron Microscopy.

AES       - Auger Emission Spectroscopy.

AFC       - Automatic Frequency Control.

AFM      - Atomic Force Microscopy.

AGC      - Automatic Gain Control.

AI          - Artificial Intelligence.

AIChE   - American Institute of Chemical Engineers.

ALCVD - Atomic Layer Chemical Vapor Deposition.

ALD      - Atomic Layer Deposition.

ALE       - Atomic Layer Epitaxy.

ALGOL - Algorithmic Oriented Language.

ALU       - Arithmetic Logic Unit.

AM        - Amplitude Modulation.

AMPS   - Advanced Mobile Phone Service.

AMU     - Atomic Mass Unit.

ANSI     - American National Standard Institute.

APD       - Avalanche Photodiode.

API        - Application Program Interface.

APCVD - Atmospheric Pressure Chemical Vapor Deposition.

APS       - American Physical Society.

ARPA    - Advanced Research Projects Agency.

ASA       - American Standards Association.

ASCII    - American Standard Code for Information Exchange.

ASIC     - Application Specific Integrated Circuit.

ASK      - Amplitude Shift Keying.

ASME   - American Society of Mechanical Engineers.

ASP       - Active Server Pages.

ASTM   - American Society for Testing and Materials.

AT&T   - American Telegraph and Telephony.

ATE      - Automated Test Equipment.

ATM     - Asynchronous Transfer Mode./ Automated Teller Machine.

AWG     - American Wire Gauge.

BCD        -  Binary Coded Decimal.

BCS         -  Bardeen, Cooper and Schieffer Theory of Superconductivity.

BER        -  Bit Error Rate.

BiCMOS -  Bipolar Complementary Oxide Semiconductor.

BGA        -  Ball Grid Array.

BIOS       -  Basic Input/Output System.

BJT         -  Bipolar Junction Transistor.

BLOG     -  Web Log.

BNC        -  Bayonet Normalized Connector.

BOE        -  Buffered Oxide Etchant.

BPSG      -  Boro-phosphosilicate Glass.

BSEE      -  Bachelors of Science in Electrical Engineering.

BSI          -  British Standards Institute.

BTE         -  Boltzmann Transport Equation.

BW          -  Bandwidth.

CAD         - Computer-Aided Design.

CAE         - Computer-Aided Engineering.

CAM        - Computer-Aided Manufacturing.

CAN        - Controller Area Network.

CAPS      -  Computer-assisted Problem Solving.

CASE      - Computer-Aided Software Engineering.

CAT        - Computerized Axial Tomography./ Computer-Aided Testing.

CATV      - Cable Television.

CB           - Citizens Band.

CBGA     - Ceramic Ball Grid Array.

CCD        - Charged Coupled Devices.

CCNA      - Cisco Certified Network Associate.

CCTV      - Closed Circuit Television.

CD           - Compact Disc.

CDF        - Cumulative Distribution Function.

CDMA    - Code Division Multiple Access.

CFC         - Chlorofluorocarbon.

CGA        - Color Graphics Adapter.

CGI         - Common Gateway Interface.

CHMOD - Change Mode.

CIE          - Computer-Integrated Engineering.

CIM        - Computer-Integrated Manufacturing.

CIO         - Chief Information Officer.

CISC       - Complex Instruction Set Computer.

CLK        - Clock.

CMOS    - Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor.

CMRR   - Common-Mode Rejection Ratio.

CNA       - Computer Networks Administration.

CNR       - Carrier to Noise Ratio.

COBOL  - Common Business-Oriented Language.

CODEC  - Coder/Decoder.

CPU        - Central Processing Unit.

CRT        - Cathode Ray Tube.

CSA        - Canadian Standards Association.

CSS         - Cascaded Style Sheets.

CTCP      - Client-to-Client Protocol.

C-V         - Capacitance-Voltage.

CVD       - Chemical Vapor Deposition.

CW         -  Continuous Wave.