3/29/2005 Engineering & Science Crossword Puzzle

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RF Cafe: Engineering & science crossword puzzle

ACROSS

1 Magnetic memory component

5 Powers pneumatic devices

8 Specialty connector manufacturer in North Andover, MA

12 This turns off a diode

16 1/000 of an amp

18 Ad-hoc On Demand distance Vector

19 Glue together

20 Ratio of circumference to diameter

21 Logic family, abbr.

23 Colorado Springs military school, abbr.

24 Exponent that returns the original number

25 BER, 8 bits at a time

26 Divide into segments for sampling

28 Analog-to-Digital

29 Opposite of I.D.

30 Drill a hole

31 Move between cells

33 ___-AZIMUTH telescope mount

35 Short for terminal

36 Shaft retainer

38 Mass desertion

40 Modulation type

41 Collection of points whose coordinates satisfy a given relation

42 Test Equipment

43 Powerful mathematics software

47 French mathematician who is recognized as the founder of number theory

51 Total Access Communication System

52 Family of TTL logic

54 Physical unit by which power is measured

55 Air in motion

56 10^1 numerical prefix

57 10e-9 second unit

59 1E6 bits per second

61 Amplitude Shift Keying

62 Direction of fiberglass filament

63 PCB thru-hole

65 BASIC looping keyword

66 Home state of Los Alamos lab

67 It cancels a zero

68 European spectrum allocation agency, abbr.

70 1e-6 mA

71 Describes a computer language like BASIC

74 Above bottoms

75 Surface Mount Technology

76 The quotient of the sum of several quantities and their number

DOWN

2 Logic gate

3 Government program to bring electricity to farms, abbr.

4 Electronic Variable Optical Attenuator

5 Colorado city

6 Network department, abbr.

7 Ctr+Alt+Del

8 A straight or curved continuous extent of length without breadth

9 Software drafting tool, abbr.

10 Unix, Linux or Windows

11 Million Multiply Accumulate, abbr.

13 Erbium Doped Fiber Amplifier

14 One type of this is valence

15 Electrical conductor

17 Property of a lens that allows it to focus all wavelengths to the same point

20 Statistical mate to a combination

22 Screwdriver, pliers, wire cutter, or soldering iron

25 A component Microsoft Office

27 Programmable logic device, abbr.

30 Beryllium oxide

32 1000 * uA

34 Has a positive phase wrt a reference

35 Mate to an RX

36 Person responsible for program spending, abbr.

37 Computer monitor cable type

38 30 GHz to 300 GHz

39 Adjust a pot

44 L-C resonating circuit

45 Cellphone display

46 Chemical symbol for arsenic

48 Modern battlefield technique, abbr.

49 Type of memory

50 Reliability measure, abbr.

52 Tiers of a PCB

53 Change from a "1" to a "0"

55 Computer communication scheme, abbr., pl.

56 Resistor manufacturer in Yankton, SD

58 Physical equipment location

60 Isolator, oscillator vendor in Tampa, FL

62 Sample groups

64 Material testing organization, abbr.

67 Silicon transistor type

69 Institute of Electrical Engineers (U.K)

71 Galilean moon

72 Half of the day

73 10^1 numerical prefix


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