A

AC

alternating current

ADC

analogue-to-digital converter

ALU

arithmetic and logic unit

AM

amplitude modulation

AMD

advanced micro devices

AMS

analogue and mixed-signal

AND

logical AND operation on two or more digital signals

ANSI

American National Standards Institute

AOI

automatic optical inspection

ASCII

American Standard Code for Information Interchange

ASIC

application-specific integrated circuit

ASP

analogue signal processor

ASSP

application-specific standard product

ATA

AT attachment

ATE

AT equipment

ATPG

AT program generation

AWG

arbitrary waveform generator

American wire gauge

AXI

automatic X-ray inspection

B

BASIC

Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code

BCD

binary coded decimal

BGA

ball grid array

BiCMOS

bipolar and CMOS

BIST

built-in self-test

bit

binary digit

BJT

bipolar junction transistor

BNC

bayonet Neill-Concelman connector

BPF

band-pass filter

BSDL

boundary scan description language

BS(I)

British Standards (Institution)

BST

boundary scan test

C

CAD

computer-aided design

CAE

computer-aided engineering

CAM

computer-aided manufacture

CAT

computer-aided test

CBGA

ceramic BGA

CD

compact disk

CE

chip enable

CERDIP

ceramic DIP

CERQUAD

ceramic quadruple side

CIC

cascaded integrator comb

CISC

complex instruction set computer

CLB

configurable logic block

CLCC

ceramic leadless chip carrier

ceramic leaded chip carrier

CMOS

complementary metal oxide semiconductor

COTS

commercial off-the-shelf

CPGA

ceramic PGA

CPLD

complex PLD

CPU

central processing unit

CQFP

ceramic quad flat pack

CS

chip select

CSOIC

ceramic SOIC

CSP

chip scale packaging

CSSP

customer specific standard product

CTFT

continuous-time Fourier transform

CTS

clear to send

CUT

circuit under test

D

DAC

digital-to-analogue converter

DAE

differential and algebraic equation

DAQ

data acquisition