Electronic engineering

Electronic engineering

Electronic engineering is an engineering discipline focused on the design, fabrication, testing and operation of circuits, electronic components, devices, and systems.

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bifurcated contact

Engineering; Electronic engineering

A forked contact whose parts act as two contacts in parallel for increased reliability.

AMTOR

Engineering; Electronic engineering

A form of amateur-radio data communications, in which the accuracy of a group of characters in a message is checked periodically by the receiving station. If an error appears likely, then the ...

charge-coupled device (CCD)

Engineering; Electronic engineering

A form of analog-to-digital converter that generates a digital signal output representing an analog image input. The transfer of stored charges provides the method of operation. Used in machine ...

current-sinking logic

Engineering; Electronic engineering

A form of bipolar digital logic. Current flows from one stage to the input of the stage immediately before.

complementary constant-current logic

Engineering; Electronic engineering

A form of bipolar logic with high operating speed and high component density.

digital logic

Engineering; Electronic engineering

A form of Boolean algebra, consisting of negation, conjunction, and disjunction, in which the binary digit 1 has the value “true” and 0 the value “false” (in positive logic) or vice versa (in ...

A form of companding law frequently used in European electronics (the mu-law is more often used in North America). A nonlinear transfer characteristic in companding circuits. It can be continuous, or ...