Glossary of Acronyms
Variants of commonly used acronyms (i.e., CLK, SCLK, SCL) are included herein, due to various industry standards that utilize different naming conventions.
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| 3D | three dimensional |
A
| AC | alternating current |
| ADC | analog-to-digital converter |
| AEC | aluminum electrolytic capacitor |
| AEC | Automotive Electronics Council |
| AED | automated external defibrillator |
| AFE | analog front end |
| AGM | absorbed glass mat |
| Ah | amp-hour |
| ANSI | American National Standards Institute |
| ANT | Adaptive Network Topology |
| ARM | Advanced RISC Machine or Acorn RISC Machine |
| ASCII | American Standard Code for Information Interchange |
| ASIC | application-specific integrated circuit |
| ASME | American Society of Mechanical Engineers |
| AUTOSAR | Automotive Open System Architecture |
| AWG | American Wire Gauge |
B
| BDCM | brushed DC motor |
| BGA | ball grid array |
| BIOS | basic input/output system |
| BLDC | brushless DC (re: motors) |
| BJT | bipolar junction transistor |
| BMS | battery management system |
| BOM | bill of materials |
| BPF | band pass filter |
| BT | Bluetooth |
| BTLE | Bluetooth Low Energy |
| BW | bandwidth |
C
| CAD | computer-aided design |
| CAN | Controller Area Network |
| CD | compact disc |
| CE | Conformité Européene or European Conformity |
| CHRT | Chien−Hrones−Reswick tuning |
| CISC | Complex Instruction Set Computer |
| CJ | cold junction (re: thermocouples) |
| CLK | clock |
| CMOS | complementary metal-oxide semiconductor |
| CMRR | common-mode rejection ratio |
| CPLD | complex programmable logic device |
| CPM | contract PCB manufacturer ... |
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