Electrical Engineering Crossword (Issue 287)

The answers to Circuit Cellar’s April electronics engineering crossword puzzle are now available.287 crossword (key)

Across

1. BEAMFORMING—Signal processing technique

7. HETERODYNERECEIVER—Converts a signal to an intermediate frequency [two words]

8. AMIGA—A high-resolution PC based on Motorola’s 6800 microprocessor family

9. NAGLING—Creates “Russian doll”-type packets to improve a TCP/IP network’s performance

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10. SERVERBLADE—A thin circuit board designed for one specific application [two words]

15. FUZZING—Tests for coding and security errors

17. PHASECHANGE—Nonvolatile RAM [two words]

18. WALLEDGARDEN—Restricts access to Web content and services [two words]

19. SERIALBACKPACK—A PCB interface that goes between a parallel LCD and a microcontroller [two words]

20. SLACKWARE—Open-source, Linux-based OS

Down

2. ROOTMEANSQUARE—Determines an AC wave’s voltage [three words]

3. ROENTGEN—IBM’s active matrix LCD

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4. KERNELPANIC—Happens when a fatal error is detected [two words]

5. BIPHASEENCODING—Requires a state transition at the end of every data bit [two words]

6. PERMITTIVITY—Ability to be polarized

11. VOODOO—Helps create realistic 3-D graphics

12. FLANGING—An audio process that combines signals to create a comb filter effect

13. BREADBOARDING—Used for circuit design experimentation

14. STATOHM—Five of these equal approximately 4.5 × 1012

16. TELEDACTYL—Utilizes human speech to code

 

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Electrical Engineering Crossword (Issue 287)

by Circuit Cellar Staff time to read: 1 min