ABC of electronics terms
(To find chips for distinct functions, see the functional pages.)
Manufacturers:
Cable modem
A modem* for sending digital information over antenna cable systems.
Some of the major players in the multimedia/modem* chipset world include:
- Analog Devices
- Broadcom
- Conexant (formerly Rockwell Semiconductor Systems)
- ESS Technology
- Fujitsu-EDE
- Lucent Technologies
- Motorola
- PairGain Technologies (www.pairgain.com/) (T1 granddaddy of companies in the telecomm business). Now called ADC (www.adc.com/).
- ST Microelectronics
- Texas Instruments
See also 'ADSL'.
Cache
www.howstuffworks.com/cache.htm - How it works
CAD/CAM software for PCB's
Computer Aided Design / Computer Aided Manufacturing software
for making Printed Circuit Board's.
See EDA.
This is the information about the calling party which is send using modem* signals between the first two rings when you're being called. Modern telephone equipment can receive and show this information. It's officially called Calling Number Delivery (CND).
Device for recording still or moving pictures.
See Video Camera.
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ever before, thanks to PC camera technologies from Intel.
Intel's new 971 PC Camera Kit is a comprehensive reference
design that enables the quick time-to-market development of
simpler, easier and more affordable PC Cameras.
See the technology that makes PC Cameras a snap to build,
and the press release at..
www.intel.com/pressroom/archive/releases/pi110397.htm
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Capacitor
Captive Fastener
Cardbus
- See PCMCIA
- Cardbus System Architecture
- Don Anderson of Mindshare, Inc
- Addison-Wesley,
- 1996
-
ISBN: 0201409976
- About $25
- www.pc-card.com/ - WWW site of PCMCIA
Case
See also Enclosure and Rack
Commite' Consultatif Internationaux des Telephone et Telegraph (?)
International institute for telephone and telegraph standards
See also ANSI, CEN, DIN, IEEE, ISO, NEN
Compact Disc.
CD-ROM programming
CEBus
A possible bus for home automation.
www.ednmag.com/ednmag/reg/1999/070899/14cs2.htm - Article in EDN
See also Lonworks
Cellular phone
Also called a mobile phone.
www.worldofcellularsecrets.com/ (gone?)
Contract Equipment Manufacturer. They manufacture the products for OEM's like Cisco, Compaq, Dell, HP, IBM etc.
Flextronics |
Sanmina |
Solectron |
See also:
OEM |
Original equipment manufacturer |
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Comite' Europe'en de Normalisation
European standards commitee
See also ANSI, CCITT, DIN, IEEE, ISO, NEN
Chemical
Chess computer
www.howstuffworks.com/chess.htm - How a chess computer works
Chiplist
Chip making
Can you make your own chips?
I'm currently doing a project with some of my friends on
creating a chip ourselves. We have a small program called IDaSS
(Interactive Design and Simulation System) which works at
register/buffer/operator/state machine level (mostly for
microcontrollers and sorts. You can find it at
www.eb.ele.tue.nl/proj/idassfly.html (beta version, still in development)
It can be output to a silicon compiler to put onto the wafer.
Please let me know if you need any info, the programmer is my teacher.
Marc Rietman <M.H.M.Rietman@stud.tue.nl>
A chipset is a set of chips working together and which are sold as a set.
Usually people mean a set of chips to populate a PC mainboard.
These sets contain all the usual chips that used to be on the original AT
motherboard like the two 8259's the 8255, 8253, 8244, the TTL* glue, the memory
refresh and parity. More modern stuff to set the refresh rates, cycle times etc.
Lately also the IDE*, floppy controller, printer port and serial ports have been
integrated. I'm not sure if the RTC can also be integrated (except for the battery
of course) but I guess so. The integration will never stop of course...
There were also chipsets for VGA* cards and modems etc. though. They were usually
sold together with a software packet so a manufacturer/seller only needed to assemble
the stuff and sell it...
See also under BIOS.
Choke
Circuit Breaker
Circuit Schematic
Schematic drawing for making a PCB*.
Books:
title |
order at Amazon USA |
price indication |
Encyclopedia of Electronic Circuits, Volume 7 |
ISBN: 0070151164
|
$32 |
3,000 Solved Problems in Electrical Circuits (Schaum's Solved Problems Series) |
ISBN: 0070459363
|
$20 |
The Forrest Mims Engineer's Notebook |
ISBN: 1878707035
|
$16 |
A have the old Radio Shack version! |
www.chipdir.nl/amazon/chipdir.php?mode=books&searchtype=KeywordSearch&search=PCB
www.chipdir.nl/amazon/chipdir.php?mode=books&searchtype=KeywordSearch&search=Electrical+Circuits
www.chipdir.nl/amazon/chipdir.php?mode=books&searchtype=KeywordSearch&search=Electronic+Circuits
John wrote in 'news:sci.electronics.repair':
Does anyone know a good site to find circuit diagrams for televisions?
I need a circuit diagram for a 'Toshiba colour TV' model no. 145E7B.
Usual answer for people in the UK: Go to your local public libaray.
There is an annually published book of schematics (and other service
info) titled "Television Servicing". Normally in the reference dept.
I copied one for a Toshiba 175T9B just this Saturday...
There are also series for VCRs, and for Satellite receivers.
Regards, Mike.
C Programming Language
CND
Calling Number Delivery.
See Caller ID.
- Common Object File Format
The book:
- Understanding and Using COFF
- By Gintaras R. Gircys
-
ISBN: 0937175315
from:
- O'Reilly & Associates, Inc.
- 632 Petaluma Avenue
- Sebastopol, CA 95472
- (O'Reilly is also quite active on the Internet.)
- It's out of print
- O'Reilly has no stock on hand
- They have specifically said it will never be reprinted
- They would be willing to put the info on the web but they have no idea how to do that, so it won't happen any time soon.
- Ken Greenberg <ken@calast.com>
- Description of the format from SUN.
- Emails about COFF.
Coil
Famous computers made by CBM.
Chips that it contained:
6581 |
C64's sound chip (SID). It has 3 AM* synthsizer channels and one 4-bit sample channel... |
6510 CBM |
Basically a 6502 with 2 8bit I/O ports added to it (Used for memory paging and tape I/O) |
(Or just one 6-bit I/O port?) |
6526 |
CIA (Complex Interface Adapter). A super I/O chip with 2 8bit I/O channels, |
a serial port, real-time clock, 2 programmable timer/counters. |
906114-01 |
2Kx4 SRAM* |
6569R3 |
C64's video chip |
More about the special chips that they contained
See also:
Communication Program
A communication program is needed to talk from your software development computer with your embedded controller project.
It's use is mainly:
- Being able to execute commands on the controller and see it's output.
- Being able to upload programs to the controller for testing.
- (Capturing the output of the controller for analyzing.)
Platform |
suggested programs to use |
where to find? |
UNIX |
CU |
standard |
UNIX |
Kermit |
GNU? |
DEC UNIX |
Tip |
standard |
Linux |
Minicom (looks like DOS's Telix/Procom) |
standard, freshmeat.net/ |
Windows3.1 |
'Terminal' |
standard |
Windows3.1 |
Procomm for DOS |
Simtel, www.qdeck.com/ |
Windows3.1 |
Telix for DOS |
Simtel |
Windows3.1 |
Telix for Windows |
Simtel |
Windows95 |
? |
Windows98 |
? |
Passive backplane specification for (industrial) PCI*
CompactPCI Systems Magazine
A CD-ROM for compiler developers
There is a CD-ROM from Prime Time Freeware titled Prime Time Freeware
for Unix (version 4-2 is the latest) that contains all sorts of public
domain goodies including an extensive language section with tools like
flex, bison, Cocktail Toolkit, etc. and sources of an enormous number
of language compilers/interpreters etc. They pack other topics like
docprep, cad, databases etc. onto the CDs (4 ?) that constitute the
release which costs $50. You can check out the contents etc. on their
home page www.ptf.com/ptf/.
Ramesh Narayanaswamy
Computer Architecture
This generally means how the central processor is build (RISC* versus CISC* for example).
See also PCI*.
Convert
For converting units see under Unit.
COP8
MCU* from NS
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CPLD
Complex Programmable Logic Device
See also FPAA, FPGA*, PLD* and VHDL.
www.chipdir.nl/amazon/chipdir.php?mode=books&searchtype=KeywordSearch&search=cpld
Central Processing Unit. (What's now a single chip main processor in a computer,
was originally a complete PCB* full with discrete logic.
The 2900 range from AMD could be used, but the big companies like IBM all
used their own designs. These processors were called bit-slice because the
words that were to be handled were sliced into 1 and later 4 bits per
chip (registers, ALU's, busses, buffers).
Some hobbyists even built their own CPU's this way
but the i4004, i4040, i8008 and i8080 generally put a stop to that for most of
them...
www.cs.uregina.ca/~bayko/cpu.html - Great Microprocessors of the Past and Present
Cyclic Redundancy Check
Crossref IC
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