12/23/2004 Engineering & Science Crossword Puzzle

Take a well-deserved break and try your hand at some of these goodies. Every word in the RF Cafe crossword puzzles is specifically related to engineering, mathematics, and science. There are no generic backfill words like many other puzzles give you, so you'll never see a clue asking for the name of a movie star or a mountain on the Russia-China border.

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ACROSS 1 Steel, brass, aluminum, etc. 5 Took measurements at regular intervals 10 Electronic switch device 14 Microwave oscillator puck material, abbr. 16 Degree of IC sophistication, abbr. 17 3 GHz to 30 GHz 18 Logic gate 19 Exponent that returns the original number 22 Device Under Test 23 300 kHz to 3 MHz 24 Electrical safety organization, abbr. 26 Test Point 27 Super glue, abbr. 28 Direct Digital Synthesis 30 Electromagnetic, abbr. 31 Measured 32 Types of memories, abbr. 33 Upper frequency, abbr. 34 Akin to PEs, EEs and AEs 36 A LP filter spec 38 Mechanical Engineer 39 U.S. Spectrum allocation agency 41 Automated Test Equipment 43 1/2 of a byte 44 Low Noise Amplifier 46 Decrease the oxidation number 47 One port of an amplifier 49 2/3 of a triac 51 Groups of 8 bits 53 Measurement standard, abbr. 54 S11 or S21 or S22, for example 55 Signal increasers 56 Microprocessors, abbr. 58 Increases voltage linearly 60 Inductor 62 Digital filter topology, abbr. 63 Parts distributor in Newark, NJ 65 Sample group 66 My son's name 68 Low Noise Amplifier 69 Electronic warfare defense scheme, abbr. 71 Analog-to-Digital 73 Professor's student instructor, abbr. 74 Color image property 76 Modulation type, abbr. 77 Isolation type 80 Bursts of digital data 83 State where National Semiconductor has a plane in S. Portland, abbr. 84 Logic gates 85 10^1 numerical prefix 86 Chemical symbol for arsenic 88 Max or min voltage of a waveform 89 Greek letter 90 Thread cutting tool 92 Last statement in a program 93 Common Gateway Interface 94 Base Station Transceivers 96 Microelectronics manufacturer, abbr. 98 Digital base 99 High-strength structural metal 100 Atom in the Periodic Table 101 Polling line state	DOWN 1 Pointing device 2 Transverse Magnetic 3 Mechanical engineering group 4 Opposes gravity on wing 5 One port on a FET 6 1E6 nanoseconds 7 Comes after MS 8 30 kHz to 300 kHz 9 There's a Little and a Big one of these 10 Temperature-compensated crystal oscillator 11 Move between cells 12 Infrared 13 Coder/Decoder 15 Time Delay 20 Unit of time, abbr. 21 Number system that uses the digits 1 to 9, plus the letters A to F to denote the numbers 10 to 15 25 Low Earth Orbit satellite configuration 26 Transverse Electromagnetic 29 Game for more than one participant 34 Take a reading 35 Symbol for tin 37 Signal-to-Noise Ratio 39 Chemical symbol for iron 40 Arrangement of switches and meters 42 Semiconductor and calculator company 44 U.S. defense firm that sold ICBM stabilization technology to China 45 Change connector type 48 World's only remaining superpower 50 Hz 51 BER, 8 bits at a time 52 Short Message Service 53 Section of a circle 57 Ratio of circumference to diameter 59 Minutes Of Use 61 One port of an amplifier 63 Home state of Los Alamos lab, abbr. 64 Form of martial art 66 Burst of digital data 67 Unit of acidity, abbr. 70 Plug-ins for computer buses 72 Satellite TV system, abbr. 73 Transformer interwinding connection 75 1 78 Quickly changing portion of waveform 79 Famous Colorado ski resort 81 A/D converter vendor in Freemont, CA 82 The 4th dimension 84 Switch position 87 Global System for Mobile Communications 91 Modern battlefield technique, abbr. 93 European equivalent to the U.L. 94 Chemical symbol for beryllium 95 Test equipment, abbr. 97 Government lawyer, abbr.
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