The answers to Circuit Cellar’s May electronics engineering crossword puzzle are now available.Across 1.            MOSIPROTOCOL—Adds a state indicating ownership [two words] 3.            SPECTROMETER—Measures wavelengths 8.            SHELL—Protects an operating system’s kernel 10.          CHARGE—Q 12.          ASSIGN—A FORTRAN control statement 13.          HALL—American physicist (1855–1938) … Continue reading →

The answers to Circuit Cellar’s April electronics engineering crossword puzzle are now available. Across 1.         BITDENSITY—Bits per inch of magnetic tape, for example [two words] 3.         KALMANFILTER—aka LQE [two words] 5.         EMBEDDEDSECURITY—Circuit Cellar columnist Patrick Schaumont covers this topic with articles … Continue reading →

The answers to Circuit Cellar’s March electronics engineering crossword puzzle are now available. Across 1.     JACOBSLADDER—Climbing arc [two words] 5.     WOZNIAK—Apple I 8.     SPARKCOIL—Uses a low-voltage DC supply to create high-voltage pulses 10.   JITTER—Creates an imperfect timing signal 11.   ERG—Energy measurement … Continue reading →

The answers to Circuit Cellar’s February electronics engineering crossword puzzle are now available. Across 3.            CONFORMALCOATING—Used on PCBs intended for extreme environments [two words] 4.            LOOP—An often repetitious code sequence 7.            VUMETER—Measures program volume [two words] 8.            GALVANOMETER—An electric current identifier … Continue reading →

The answers to Circuit Cellar’s January electronics engineering crossword puzzle are now available. Across 1.     ICONOSCOPE—The first widely used television camera tube 5.     INTERRUPTROUTINE—Responds to disturbances [two words] 8.     RADIXPOINT—Separates a number’s integer part from its fraction part [two words] 11.   … Continue reading →