The answers to Circuit Cellar’s December electronics engineering crossword puzzle are now available.
Across
1. MOSFET—According to Ed Nisley in his Circuit Cellar 265 2012 article, this type of tester characterizes a transistor’s behavior by computing the drain resistance at each combination of measured voltage and current
5. LORENTZ—Type of force on a charged particle caused by electromagnetic fields
9. TWEED—Tests your engineering know-how in every issue of Circuit Cellar
10. HOMECONTROL—In last month’s “Task Manager,” Circuit Cellar Editor-in-Chief C. J. Abate mentioned that this was one of the hottest topics in the magazine’s earliest issues [two words]
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12. TASK—In his article in this issue, Bob Japenga defines this as an instance of a software program that is utilizing CPU resources to accomplish some purpose
14. WIRTH—Swiss computer scientist who designed the Pascal programming language
16. ILLUMINATION—An LED’s purpose
18. CALLBACK—Enables a lower-level software layer to request a higher-level-defined subroutine
19. ELECTRICALRESISTANCE—German physicist Georg Ohm 1789 – 6 July 1854 first introduced this concept [two words]
Down
2. SHANNON—Cryptographer known as the “father of information theory”
3. AUTONOMOUSROBOT—Does not rely on human interaction [two words]
4. BODEPLOT—Represents a system’s gain and phase as a frequency function [two words]
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6. EAGLE—Commonly used for PCB design
7. TACHOMETER—A device that can help you determine revolutions per minute
8. PROGRAMMABLELOGIC—These types of projects utilize FPGAs, PLDs, and other chips [two words]
11. THERMOELECTRIC—Type of cooling that relies on the Peltier effect to alter heat between two types of materials
13. MAGNETOMETER—Used to measure magnetic fields’ strength and intensity
15. GREENENERGY—Focus of Renesas’s 2012 design challenge [two words]
17. NONCE—Available for a limited time
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