The answers to Circuit Cellar’s April electronics engineering crossword puzzle are now available.
Across
2. STOKESSHIFT—Can reduce photon energy [two words]
8. HYSTERESISLOOP—Its area measures the energy dispersed during a magnetization cycle [two words]
11. NANDGATE—A shoe in when playing “true or false?” [two words]
13. YOCTOPROJECT—An open-source alliance designed to help Linux aficionados [two words]
15. RANKINE—°R
17. INTERNALNET—A network that resides in and around you
18. SEQUENTIALCIRCUIT—Dependent on past input [two words]
19. NANOHENRY—Its abbreviation is the same as the state bordered by Massachusetts, Maine, and Vermont
20. BINARYCODEDDECIMAL—Makes good use of a 4- or 8-bit nibble [three words]
Down
1. BIREFRINGENCE—Divides light into ordinary and extraordinary rays
3. SQUIRREL—An object-oriented programming language
4. SMARTMETER—Records and shares energy usage information [two words]
5. MESHANALYSIS—A circuit evaluation method [two words]
6. LYOTFILTER—Uses [1. Down] to produce a narrow frequency range of wavelengths [two words]
7. LINEARREGULATOR—Keeps things steady [two words]
9. BRAGGDIFFRACTION—Occurs when electromagnetic radiation disperses [two words]
10. AUTODYNE—An amplifying vacuum tube-based circuit
12. FEMTOWATT—10–15 W
14. UNIJUCTION—Can be used to measure magnetic flux
16. PEAKER—Increases gain at higher frequencies
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