The answers to Circuit Cellar’s October electronics engineering crossword puzzle are now available.
Across
1. ERASABLE—The second “E” in EEPROM
4. NYCRESISTOR—Brooklyn, NY-based open-community workspace [two words]
5. WHITEHAT—A hacker with ethics may don one of these [two words]
6. WIMAX—aka, IEEE 802.16
8. STRUCTUREDQUERY—A type of data-management language [two words]
9. PACKETSWITCHING—Data grouping method [two words]
11. VOLTOHMMETER—Capable of measuring voltage, current, and resistance [three words]
12. ELUA—It’s free, open source, and embedded
13. BUCK—A switched-mode power supply converter
14. GOODPUT—This can be calculated by dividing a transmitted file’s size by the amount of time it takes to transfer the file
16. GRAYCODE—One bit makes a difference [two words]
17. UBUNTU—Linux-based OS
18. WEARLEVELING—When applied to a flash memory, this technique can level out the amount of writes to any given memory block across the entire memory chip [two words]
19. MOODLE—E-learning software developed by Australian computer scientist Martin Dougiamas
20. CROSSEDFIELD—This type of microwave amplifier can also be used as an oscillator [two words]
Down
2. LONGTERMEVOLUTION—Wireless communication standard [three words]
3. CHEMILUMINESCENCE—A chemical reaction that creates a light emission
7. BAXANDALL—A negative-feedback circuit used in high-quality audio amplifiers
10. MICROKERNEL—µK
15. PAUSEUS—BASIC command that creates a microsecond-based delay
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