Electronics and Technology Acronyms

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

S               - Sulfur.

SA            - Surface Area.

SAE          - Society of Automotive Engineers.

SAM        - Scanning Auger (Acoustic) Microscopy.

SATCOM- Satellite Communications.

SAW         - Surface Acoustic Wave.

SCR         - Silicon Controlled Rectifier.

SCSI        - Small Computer Standard Interface.

SDH         - Synchronous Digital Hierarchy.

SDLC      - Synchronous Data Link Control.

SDRAM  - Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory.

SEM        - Surface Electron Microscopy.

SEMI      - Semiconductor Equipment and Materials Institute.

SEO         - Search Engine Optimization.

SHPE       - Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers.

SHTML   - Server-Side Include Hypertext Markup Language.

SiGe         - Silicon-Germanium.

SIMS       - Secondary Ion Mass Spectroscopy.

SINAD    - Signal Noise and Distortion.

SIP           - Single In-line Package.

SMA        - Sub-Miniature A Connector.

SMC        - Surface-mounted Components.

SMD        - Surface-mounted Device.

SMT        - Surface Mount Technology.

SNAP      - Sub-Network Access Protocol.

SNL         - Sandia National Laboratory.

SNR        - Signal-to-Noise Ratio.

SoC          - System on a Chip.

SOI          - Silicon on Insulator.

SOIC       - Small-Outline Integrated Circuit.

SONET   - Synchronous Optical Network.

SOS         - Silicon on Saphire.

SPARC   - Scalable Processor Architecture.

SPC         - Statistical Process Control.

SPDT      - Single Pole Double Throw Switch.

SPE         - Solid Phase Epitaxy.

SPIE        - International Society of Optical Engineering.

SPICE     - Simulation Program with Integrated Circuit Emphasis.

SPM        - Scanning Probe Microscopy.

SPST       - Single Pole Single Throw Switch.

SQC        - Statistical Quality Control.

SQL         - Structured Query Language.

SR           - Shift Register.

SRAM     - Static Random Access Memory.

SS            - Spread Spectrum.

SSB         - Single Sideband.

SSI           - Small Scale Integration.

SSL          - Secure Sockets Layer.

STDIN     - Standard Input.

STDOUT - Standard Output.

STM        - Scanning Tunneling Microscopy.

STP          - Secure Transfer Protocol./ Shielded Twisted Pair (cable)./ Standard Temperature and Pressure.

SUT         - System Under Test.

SWAT     - Software Action Team.

SWR        - Standing Wave Ratio.

SYNC      - Synchronous.

TCAD    - Technology Computer-Aided Design.

TCM      - Tunneling Current Microscopy./ Trellis Coded Modulation.

TCP/IP   - Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol.

TCE       - Temperature Coefficient of Expansion.

TCM     -  Tunneling Current Microscopy.

TDM     -  Time Division Multiplex.

TDMA   - Time Division Multiple Access.

TDR       - Time Domain Reflectometry.

TE          - Transverse Electric.

TEM      - Tunneling Electron Microscopy./ Transverse Electro-Magnetic.

TEOS    -  Tetraethoxysilane.

TFT        - Thin Film Transistor.

THD      - Total Harmonic Distortion.

TIF         - Tagged Image File image format (aka. TIFF)

TTL        - Transistor-Transistor Logic.

TM        - Transverse Magnetic.

TO         - Transistor Outline Package.

TOF       - Time of Flight.

TQM     - Total Quality Management.

TSOP     - Thin Small Outline Package.

TVS        - Transient Voltage Suppression.

TWT      - Traveling Wave Tube.

UART    - Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter.

UHF       - Ultra High Frequency.

UHV      - Ultra High Vacuum.

UI           - User Interface.

UID        - User Identification.

UJT        - Uni-Junction Transistor.

UL          - Underwriters Laboratories.

ULSI      - Ultra Large Scale Integration.

UNI        - User to Network Interface.

UPC       - Universal Product Code.

UPS        - Uninterruptible Power Supply.

URL       - Uniform Resource Locator.

USART  - Universal Synchronous/Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter.

USB       - Universal Serial Bus.

USOP     - Ultra-small Outline Package.

USRD    - User System Requirement Document.

UTP       -  Unshielded Twisted Pair.

UUT       - Unit Under Test.

UV         - Ultraviolet.