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Semiconductors

Any solid material with electrical conductivity due to electron flow (as opposed to ionic conductivity) of a magnitude between that of a conductor and that of an insulator.

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though beyond the scope of this glossary.

Semiconductors; Test equipment

DFT technique where a pin's output is wrapped back in to it's input (or the input of another pin). This can allow some testing of pins that are not contacted directly by the ...

tristate

Semiconductors; Test equipment

A high-impedance third state for a device output.

pogo pin

Semiconductors; Test equipment

A kind of spring-loaded pin formed of two small tubular sections joined together with an internal spring and with a contactor formed on the end of the smaller tube; used to ...

decibel (dB)

Semiconductors; Test equipment

A logarithmic measure of the ratio of two signal levels: dB = 20 log (Voltage1 / Voltage2) dB = 10 log (Power1 / Power2)Variants on the decibel (dB) used in ...

discrete cosine transform

Semiconductors; Test equipment

A mathematical operation that compresses video data in JPEG and MPEG files.

cyclic redundancy check (CRC)

Semiconductors; Test equipment

A mathematically generated number that data receivers use to verify the proper bit arrangement in a bit stream.

common-mode rejection ratio (CMRR)

Semiconductors; Test equipment

A measure of an instrument's ability to ignore or reject interference from a signal that is common to the instrument's input terminals, but relative to ground. (Expressed in ...