10/21/2002 Engineering & Science Crossword Puzzle

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 RF Cafe: Engineering & science crossword puzzle

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1 Oscillator manufacturer in Whippany, NJ (abbr.)

4 Network controllers

10 Software drafting tool

13 Indium phosphide

15 Undesirable background information

16 Error checking scheme

18 Type of model airplane control system, abbr.

20 Greek letter

22 Carrier-to-noise ratio

23 Video display measurement, abr.

24 Home state of Los Alamos lab

25 Threaded anchors

28 Cause nonlinearities

30 Powers pneumatic devices

31 Waveguide manufacturer in Edinburg, VA

34 Institute of Electrical Engineers (U.K.)

36 Plastic Chip Carrier

38 Coder/decoder

39 Electronic warfare defense

41 Temperature Coefficient

43 Logic gates

45 Gun safety and education organization

46 Type of current flow

47 Wire bundle

48 It's now named Inprise

49 Electromagnetic

50 National Science Board

53 These and cones populate the retina

54 Modulation type

55 Field Effect Transistor

56 Has a positive phase wrt a reference

59 Type of memory

61 Negative temperature coefficient

62 Producer of Delphi programming software

64 1/000 of an inch

66 Elementary particles

68 Describes a waveform that has periodic variation

71 Personal Computer

72 RF resistor manufacturer in Boone, NC

73 Thread cutting tool

75 Peripheral Component Interface

76 Government lawyer, abbr.

77 Line of sight

78 _____-wise linear

80 Low- to mid- frequency connector

82 Charged particle

83 Bill's famous OS

84 Gallium nitride

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2 Semiconductor and calculator company

3 Electrical node

5 Army-Navy spec

6 System On Chip

7 Added solder to tip of iron

8 Capacitor quality spec.

9 Component of product cost

10 No overshooting and no undershooting

11 Type of current flow

12 Micro Channel Architecture

14 Precision radar, abbr.

16 Hz

17 Surface mount technology

19 Low Noise Amplifier

21 United Technologies, abbr.

23 RF switching diode

24 Component of product cost

26 Half of a DIP

27 System On Chip

28 Data conversion device

29 Original equipment manufacturer

32 Short for logarithm

33 Metal parts engineers

35 Archaic reference for outer space

37 Peak of a waveform

39 A faulty bit of programming

40 Wideband CDMA

42 Person responsible for program spending, abbr.

44 Half of DSB

45 Logic gate

46 Automatic network analyzer

51 BER. 8 bits at a time

52 Personal Digital Assistant

55 Network file transfer protocol

56 Line of sight

57 System engineering company

58 Signal-to-noise ratio

60 1/000 of an inch

61 Semiconductor manufacturer

62 Low- to mid- frequency connector

63 Twice a SIP

65 Semiconductor lamp

66 Filter type

67 Logic gates

69 Substrate for mounting components

70 Government lawyers, abbr.

73 Connector family (German origin)

74 Official engineering change document

77 Local Oscillator

78 Ratio of circumference to diameter

79 Modern battlefield technique

81 Super glue, abbr.


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