Electrical Engineering Crossword (Issue 279)

The answers to Circuit Cellar’s October electronics engineering crossword puzzle are now available.

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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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Electrical Engineering Crossword (Issue 279)

by Circuit Cellar Staff time to read: 1 min