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| T-BGA |
tape ball grid array |
| T/H |
track and hold |
| T/R |
transmit and receive |
| TAB |
tape automated bonding |
| TAC |
Technical Activity Committee |
| TACS |
Total Access Communication System (British cellular) |
| tan |
tangent |
| TAP |
test access part |
| TAPI |
telephone application program interface |
| TAT |
transatlantic telephone (cable) |
| TAV |
transverse acoustic-wave voltage |
| Tbit |
terabit |
| Tbit/sec |
terabits per second |
| TC |
temperature coefficient |
| TCAP |
transaction capabilities application part |
| TCC |
temperature coefficient of capacitance |
| TCE |
temperature coefficient of expansion |
| TCE |
Technical Computing Environment |
| TCE |
thermal coefficient of expansion |
| TCIF |
Telecommunications Industry Forum |
| TCM |
thermal conduction module |
| TCM |
trellis-coded modulation |
| TCO |
total cost of ownership |
| TCP |
tape carrier package |
| TCP/IP |
Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol |
| TCR |
tape carrier ring |
| TCR |
temperature coefficient of resistance |
| TCXO |
temperature compensated crystal oscillators |
| TDAC |
time-domain alias cancellation (synonymous with MDCT) |
| TDD |
time-division duplex |
| TDDS |
time-division duplex system (communications) |
| TDM |
time-division multiplexing (communications) |
| TDMA |
time-division multiple access (communications) |
| TDR |
time domain reflectometer |
| TE |
transverse electric |
| TEC |
thermal electrical cooler |
| TEGFET |
2-D electron-gas field effect transistor |
| TEM |
transverse electromagnetic |
| TF |
transfer function |
| TFF |
thin-film filter |
| TFI |
transport format indicator |
| TFP |
thin flat package |
| TFT |
thin-film transistor |
| TFT-LCD |
thin-film transistor liquid crystal display |
| THB |
temperature humidity bias |
| THD |
total harmonic distortion |
| THHN |
Thermoplastic high heat-resistant coated nylon |
| 3D |
three-dimensional |
| TIA |
Telecommunications Industry Association (Washington, DC) |
| TIA |
time-interval analyzer |
| TIC |
tape-automated bond in cap |
| TIFF |
tagged image format file (computer graphics) |
| TIGA |
Texas Instruments' Graphics Architecture |
| TiN |
titanium nitride |
| TIR |
total indicated reading |
| TISSS |
Tester Independent Software Support System (DOD program) |
| TL1 |
Transaction Language 1 |
| TLB |
translation-look-aside buffer |
| TLC |
thin-layer chromatography |
| TLIM |
transmission-line model |
| TLM |
transmission line matrix |
| TLM |
triple-layer metal |
| TM |
traffic management |
| TMC |
transfer mode converter/switch port termination |
| TMN |
Traffic Management Network |
| TMRC |
Technology Marketing and Research Council |
| TMSL |
test and measurement systems language |
| Tn |
digital carrier, type n |
| TN |
twister nematic (LC display) |
| TO |
transistor outline package |
| TOP |
thin outline package |
| TPC |
Transaction Processing Council (standard) |
| TPC |
transmit power control |
| tpi |
tracks per inch |
| TPQFP |
test-pad quad flat pack |
| TPU |
time processor unit |
| TQC |
total quality control |
| TQFP |
tape quad flat pack |
| TQFP |
thin quad flat pack |
| TQM |
total quality management |
| Tr |
transition time |
| TRAM |
transputer random access memory (module) |
| triac |
triac bidirectional rectifier (two SCRs used in antiparallel) |
| TRP |
Technology-Reinvestment Program |
| TSB |
Telecommunications Standardization Bureau |
| TSOP |
thin small outline package |
| TSP |
temperature-sensitive parameter |
| TSSOP |
thin-scaled small-outline package |
| TSSOP |
thin-shrink small-outline package |
| TST |
time-space-time |
| TTC |
Telecommunications Technology Committee (Japan) |
| TTC |
time-to-collection (data acquisition) |
| TTL |
transistor-transistor logic |
| TTY |
teletypewriter |
| TUV |
Technische Uberwachungs-Verein (German test lab) |
| TVI |
TV interface |
| TVRO |
television receive-only (DBS) |
| TVS |
transient-voltage suppressor |
| TwinVQ |
transform-domain-weighted interleaved vector quantization |
| 2-D |
two-dimensional |
| TXCO |
temperature compensated oscillator |
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| uA |
microampere |
| UART |
universal asynchronous receiver-transmitter (communications) |
| UBR |
unspecified bit rate |
| UBS |
uninterruptible battery system |
| uC |
microcomputer |
| uC |
microcontroller |
| UCOM |
Users' Committee of Foreign Semiconductors |
| UDI |
Universal Digital Interface |
| UDP |
User Datagram Protocol (Internet) |
| UDPs |
user-defined primitives |
| UDWDM |
ultradense-wavelength-division multiplexing |
| uF |
microfarad |
| ug |
microgram |
| uH |
microhenry |
| UHF |
ultrahigh frequency |
| UHV |
ultrahigh vacuum |
| UIL |
User Interface Language (Open Software Foundation) |
| UJT |
unijunction transistor |
| UL |
Underwriters' Laboratory |
| ULSI |
ultra large-scale integration |
| um |
micron |
| UMTS |
Universal Mobile Telecommunication System |
| UN |
United Nations |
| UNEP |
United Nations Environment Program |
| UNI |
User Network Interface (standard) |
| uP |
microprocessor |
| UPnP |
Universal Plug and Play (www.upnp.org) |
| UPC |
universal product code |
| UPS |
uninterruptible power source |
| UPSR |
unifine pitch |
| US |
Upstream |
| USART |
transmitter |
| USAT |
ultrasmall aperture terminal |
| USB |
Universal Serial Bus |
| USDC |
US Display Consortium |
| USE/DA |
Users Society for Electronic Design Automation |
| usec |
microsecond |
| USTA |
US Telephone Association |
| UTC |
Universal Coordinated Time |
| UTOPIA |
Universal Test and Operations Physical Interface for Asynchronous
Transfer Mode |
| UTP |
unshielded twisted pair |
| UTQFP |
ultrathin quad flat pack |
| UTRA |
UMTS Terrestrial Radio Access |
| UTSOP |
ultrathin small-outline package |
| UUT |
unit under test |
| uV |
microvolt |
| UV |
ultraviolet |
| UV-PROM |
ultraviolet-erasable PROM |
| UVLO |
undervoltage lockout (thresholds) |
| uW |
microwatt |
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| V |
volt |
| V ac |
volts alternating current |
| V dc |
volts direct current |
| V-MOS |
v-groove MOS |
| V/F |
voltage to frequency |
| VA |
volt-ampere |
| VAFC |
VESA Advanced Feature Connection |
| VAR |
value-added reseller |
| VAR |
volt-ampere, reactive |
| VB |
visual Basic (multimedia software) |
| VBI |
vertical blanking interval (TV) |
| VBR |
variable bit rate (networking) (nrt - non-real time; rt - real time) |
| VBX |
Visual Basic extension |
| VC |
virtual channel |
| VCA |
voltage-controlled amplifier |
| VCD |
variable center distance |
| VCI |
virtual channel indicator/identifier (network) |
| VCIF |
VESA Display Information Format |
| VCO |
voltage-controlled oscillator |
| VCPU |
video compression processor unit |
| VCR |
videocassette recorder |
| VCSEL |
vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser |
| VCVA |
voltage-controlled variable attenuator |
| VCXO |
voltage-controlled crystal oscillator |
| VDE |
visual development environment |
| VDE |
video-decompression engine |
| VDSL |
very high-rate digital subscriber line (40 Mbps downstream) |
| VESA |
Video Electronics Standards Association |
| VF |
vacuum fluorescent (display) |
| VF |
voice frequency (300 to 3400 Hz) |
| VFC |
voltage-to-frequency converter |
| VFD |
vacuum fluorescent display |
| VFEA |
VMEbus Futurebus + Extended Architecture |
| VFO |
variable-frequency oscillator |
| VGA |
video-graphics adapter |
| VGA |
video-graphics array |
| VGA |
video graphic accelerator (circuit) |
| VGA |
Video Graphics Adapter |
| VHADSL |
very-high-bit-rate asymmetric digital subscriber line |
| VHDL |
very-high-density logic |
| VHDL |
very-high-speed integrated-circuit hardware-description language |
| VHDSL |
very-high-bit rate digital subscriber line |
| VHF |
very high-frequency (30 kHz to 300 MHz) |
| VHSIC |
very high-speed IC |
| VIL |
vertical in-line |
| VISA |
virtual instrument software architecture |
| VISA |
VXI System Alliance (standard) |
| VITA |
VMEbus International Trade Association |
| Vital |
VHDL Initiative Toward ASIC Libraries (organization) |
| VLAN |
virtual local-area network |
| VL Bus |
VESA local bus |
| VLC/VLD |
variable length coding, variable length decoding |
| VLF |
very low frequency (below 30 kHz) |
| VLIW |
very long instruction word (computer architecture) |
| VLS |
virtual library system |
| VLSI |
very-large-scale integration |
| VMC |
VESA Media Channel (bus) |
| VME |
versa module eurocard |
| VME |
virtual machine environment |
| VMEbus |
versatile modular E-bus (from former VERSAbus-E) |
| VMTP |
Versatile Message Transaction Protocol (communications) |
| VNA |
vector network analyzer |
| VOD |
video-on-demand |
| VoIP |
voice over Internet Protocol |
| VOST |
VESA Open Set Top (group) |
| VOX |
voice-operated threshold (communications) |
| VP |
virtual path |
| VP |
video processor |
| VPAK |
vertical package |
| VPCI |
virtual path connection identifier |
| VPD |
vapor phase dissolution |
| VPE |
vapor phase epitaxy |
| VPEC |
Virginia Power Electronics Center (Blacksburg, VA) |
| VPI |
virtual path indicator/identifier (network) |
| VPM |
vertical package module |
| VPN |
virtual private network |
| VPP |
VXI Plug-and-Play (systems alliance) |
| VPS |
vapor phase soldering |
| VQ |
vector quantization |
| VQFP |
very-fine-pitch quad flat pack |
| VR |
virtual reality |
| VRAM |
video random-access memory |
| VRD |
virtual retina display |
| VRM |
voice recognition module |
| VROOMM |
Virtual Runtime Object-Oriented Memory Manager |
| versus |
versus |
| vs |
versus |
| VSAT |
very small aperature terminal (satellite transceiver with 30-40cm disk) |
| VSB |
vestigial sideband |
| VSB |
VME Subsystem bus |
| VSELP |
vector-sum excited linear-predictive (speech coding) |
| VSIM |
virtual surface image memory |
| VSO |
very small-outline |
| VSOP |
very small outline package (Japanese MFP) |
| VSS |
VHDL system simulator |
| VSWR |
voltage standing-wave ratio (RF and microwave) |
| VTCO |
voltage-temperature cutoff (battery charging) |
| VTVM |
vacuum tube Voltmeter |
| VU |
volume unit (meter) |
| VXCO |
voltage-controlled crystal oscillator |
| VXI |
VME eXtensions for Instrumentation |
| VXIbus |
VMEbus eXtension for Instrumentation |
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| W |
watt |
| WAIS |
wide-area information server (Internet) |
| WAN |
wide-area network |
| WAP |
Wireless Application Protocol |
| WB |
wire bonded |
| WDM |
wavelength-division multiplexing |
| WFQ |
weighted fair queuing |
| Whr |
watthour |
| WLAN |
wireless local area network |
| WLL |
wireless local loop |
| WMA |
Windows Media Audio |
| WML |
Wireless Markup Language |
| WORM |
write once, read many (optical desk) |
| wPKI |
wireless public-key infrastructure) |
| wpm |
words per minute |
| WRAM |
window RAM |
| WRED |
weighted random early discard |
| WRR |
weighted round robin |
| WSI |
wafer scale integration |
| WTLS |
wireless transport-layer security |
| WUT |
wafer under test |
| WWW |
World Wide Web of the Internet |
| WYSIWYG |
what you see is what you get |
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| X-MOS |
high-speed metal-oxide semiconductor |
| XA |
extended architecture (CD-ROM) |
| XDR |
external data representation |
| xDSL |
Digital Subscriber Line |
| XGA |
extended graphics adapter |
| XIP |
execute-in-place |
| XIWT |
Cross-Industry Working Team (information transmission) |
| XML |
eXtensible Markup Language |
| XPG |
X/Open Portability Guide (standard group) |
| XRF |
x-ray fluorescence (spectroscopy) |
| XTP |
Express Transfer Protocol (communications) |
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| YAG |
ytrrium-aluminum garnet |
| YIG |
yttrium iron garnet (microwave device material) |
| YTD |
year to date |
| YUV |
luminance/chrominance |
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| ZCS |
zero-current switching |
| ZIF |
zero insertion force |
| ZIP |
zigzag-in-line package |
| ZnO |
zinc oxide |
| ZVS |
zero-voltage switching |
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