Never Twice the Same Colour (as told to me)

And Picture At Last ?

And PCMCIA
(People Cannot Memorise Computer Industry Acronyms)

That reminds me of "ISDN"

It Still Does Nothing

A gamer mock by those with DSL or T1.

 

That reminds me of "ISDN"

It Still Does Nothing

That was told to me as "I Still Don't No" (as in know)

 

I had dual channel ISDN for a while and "It Still Does Nothing" was pretty close to the mark considering how often it would drop a channel.

 

It still gets to me when otherwise OK writers, who might actually be TECHNICAL writers, start an article without ever considering that not all readers will be current in the latest jargon, including pronouncing some new, cool, acronym as a word. The wiser writers spell it out, capitalizing the letters of the acronym early in the article. Then the uninitiated can pick it up and have a clue, even if they don't get it all. That is booth useful and considerate.

 

DFT= Design For Test
DFM= Design For Manufacturing
FPGA= Field Programmable Gate Array
CPLD = Complex Programmable Logic Device
BJT = Bipolar Junction Transistor

One thing that bugs me is that some people use the word ‘transistor’ to refer only to BJTs, as though the ‘T’ in MOSFET doesn’t relate.

 

It still gets to me when otherwise OK writers, who might actually be TECHNICAL writers, start an article without ever considering that not all readers will be current in the latest jargon, including pronouncing some new, cool, acronym as a word. The wiser writers spell it out, capitalizing the letters of the acronym early in the article. Then the uninitiated can pick it up and have a clue, even if they don't get it all. That is booth useful and considerate.

Particularly annoying when they decide to use an acronym for something that is conventionally written out in full.

The worst I found was an article expounding the health benefits of ACV? What's ACV?
Cider vinegar! with the "A" added to abbreviate the tautologous Apple Cider Vinegar.

 

Particularly annoying when they decide to use an acronym for something that is conventionally written out in full.

The worst I found was an article expounding the health benefits of ACV? What's ACV?
Cider vinegar! with the "A" added to abbreviate the tautologous Apple Cider Vinegar.

And here I thought it was a single Constant Velocity (Joint).

 

PyroTanex was/is imbedded in hard magnesium oxide material.

What we called MIC, mineral insulated cable. We used it for flame resistance in our high-pressure hydrogenation reactors area as instrumentation cable due to frequent hydrogen fires. Ours didn't have the metal braid the military grade stuff did and the outer metal jacket was copper.

And the folks that worked for RCA used to claim it stood for Rotten Cruddy Apparatus.

 

"MIC" is also a "Microwave Integrated Circuit", at least in some publications.

 

I always took it as Ministry of Transport?

Ministry of Truth, as in 1984.

 

Ministry of Truth, as in 1984.

I wonder what George would have made of the 21st century ?

 

I wonder what George would have made of the 21st century ?

“Told you so”

 

PAL = Programmable Array Logic
FPGA = Field Programmable Gate Array
DC = Direct Current
AC = Alternating Current
CCA = Circuit Card Assembly
ANSI = American National Standards Institute
SCR = Silicon Controlled Rectifier
CLK = Clock
RST or MRST = Reset or Master Reset

 

CCA = Cold Cranking Amperes
Can anyone think of an acronym with three meanings?

 

RTS = Request To Send
RTS = ReTurn from Subroutine
RTS = Ring Tip Sleeve

And 130 more:
https://acronyms.thefreedictionary.com/RTS

 

RTS = Request To Send
RTS = ReTurn from Subroutine
RTS = Ring Tip Sleeve

And 130 more:
https://acronyms.thefreedictionary.com/RTS

Context is everything.

 

Here are some commonly used acronyms and synonyms in electronics:

1. **AC** - Alternating Current
2. **DC** - Direct Current
3. **V** - Voltage
4. **I** - Current
5. **R** - Resistance
6. **Ohm** - Ω (Unit of Resistance)
7. **A** - Ampere (Unit of Current)
8. **V** - Volt (Unit of Voltage)
9. **Hz** - Hertz (Unit of Frequency)
10. **W** - Watt (Unit of Power)
11. **F** - Farad (Unit of Capacitance)
12. **H** - Henry (Unit of Inductance)
13. **µF** - Microfarad (10^-6 Farads)
14. **nF** - Nanofarad (10^-9 Farads)
15. **pF** - Picofarad (10^-12 Farads)
16. **kHz** - Kilohertz (10^3 Hertz)
17. **MHz** - Megahertz (10^6 Hertz)
18. **GHz** - Gigahertz (10^9 Hertz)
19. **LED** - Light Emitting Diode
20. **IC** - Integrated Circuit
21. **PCB** - Printed Circuit Board
22. **AC/DC** - Alternating Current/Direct Current
23. **ADC** - Analog-to-Digital Converter
24. **DAC** - Digital-to-Analog Converter
25. **PWM** - Pulse Width Modulation
26. **FET** - Field Effect Transistor
27. **BJT** - Bipolar Junction Transistor
28. **MOSFET** - Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor
29. **CMOS** - Complementary Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor
30. **PLL** - Phase-Locked Loop
31. **RF** - Radio Frequency
32. **EMI** - Electromagnetic Interference
33. **ESD** - Electrostatic Discharge
34. **ESR** - Equivalent Series Resistance
35. **SMD** - Surface Mount Device
36. **DIP** - Dual Inline Package
37. **SPI** - Serial Peripheral Interface
38. **I2C** - Inter-Integrated Circuit
39. **UART** - Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter
40. **USB** - Universal Serial Bus

These are just a few examples, and there are many more acronyms and synonyms used in electronics.

 

Here are some commonly used acronyms and synonyms in electronics:

1. **AC** - Alternating Current
2. **DC** - Direct Current
3. **V** - Voltage
4. **I** - Current
5. **R** - Resistance
6. **Ohm** - Ω (Unit of Resistance)
7. **A** - Ampere (Unit of Current)
8. **V** - Volt (Unit of Voltage)
9. **Hz** - Hertz (Unit of Frequency)
10. **W** - Watt (Unit of Power)
11. **F** - Farad (Unit of Capacitance)
12. **H** - Henry (Unit of Inductance)
13. **µF** - Microfarad (10^-6 Farads)
14. **nF** - Nanofarad (10^-9 Farads)
15. **pF** - Picofarad (10^-12 Farads)
16. **kHz** - Kilohertz (10^3 Hertz)
17. **MHz** - Megahertz (10^6 Hertz)
18. **GHz** - Gigahertz (10^9 Hertz)
19. **LED** - Light Emitting Diode
20. **IC** - Integrated Circuit
21. **PCB** - Printed Circuit Board
22. **AC/DC** - Alternating Current/Direct Current
23. **ADC** - Analog-to-Digital Converter
24. **DAC** - Digital-to-Analog Converter
25. **PWM** - Pulse Width Modulation
26. **FET** - Field Effect Transistor
27. **BJT** - Bipolar Junction Transistor
28. **MOSFET** - Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor
29. **CMOS** - Complementary Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor
30. **PLL** - Phase-Locked Loop
31. **RF** - Radio Frequency
32. **EMI** - Electromagnetic Interference
33. **ESD** - Electrostatic Discharge
34. **ESR** - Equivalent Series Resistance
35. **SMD** - Surface Mount Device
36. **DIP** - Dual Inline Package
37. **SPI** - Serial Peripheral Interface
38. **I2C** - Inter-Integrated Circuit
39. **UART** - Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter
40. **USB** - Universal Serial Bus

These are just a few examples, and there are many more acronyms and synonyms used in electronics.

I appreciate your effort to contribute.

For future posts please consider avoiding unnecessary symbols (and numbers) demanding extra efforts to read what otherwise would be a simple / clear text.

 

AC = Alternating Current
DC = Direct Current
PMU = Power Management Unit

 

An interesting set of additions.
One correction though: Mostly, "generator" refers to a device with a commutator that delivers DC, while an "alternator" produces AC voltage that is rectified, most often with internal diodes. Mostly these devices are the smaller ones that a single person can lift. The big devices seldom abide by the same convention.