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
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10. JITTER—Creates an imperfect timing signal
11. ERG—Energy measurement
13. ACOUSTICOHM—Equivalent to µbar s/cm3 [two words]
15. BUFFER—Provides electrical isolation
16. WIFI—Provides movement to smartphones, PCs, and tablets
17. POSIX—An IEEE operating system compatibility standard
18. PEAKTOPEAK—Alterations between high and low values
19. MUTEX—Capable of ensuring atomic access to any shared resource
20. NAKAMURA—University of California, Santa Barbara professor credited with inventing the blue LED
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Down
2. OSCILLATOR—American physicist George W. Pierce (1872–1956); piezoelectric
3. EIGENTONE—A pitch capable of resonance
4. FRETSONFIRE—Open-source gameplay for music lovers [three words]
6. NEGATIVEFEEDBACK—Type of amplifier invented in 1927 by Harold Black [two words]
7. BAFFLE—Sound wave obstruction
9. MORSECODE—A pre-texting means of communication [two words]
12. COMBFILTER—Capable of causing delay [two words]
14. CHIPSET—Intel created the first family of these
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