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ABC of electronics terms

(To find chips for distinct functions, see the functional pages.)

C

Cable

Manufacturers:

Where	Manufacturer
www.daburn.com/	Daburn Electronic
www.specialtycable.com/	Specialty Cable

Cable modem

www.cablelabs.com/	Non-profit research and development consortium of cable television system operators
www.pairgain.com/	George Zimmerman's tutorials

Some of the major players in the multimedia/modem chipset world include:

• Analog Devices
• Broadcom
• Conexant (formerly Rockwell Semiconductor Systems)
• ESS Technology
• Fujitsu-EDE
• Lucent Technologies
• Motorola
• PairGain Technologies (www.pairgain.com/)(T1 granddaddy of companies in the telecomm business).Now called ADC (www.adc.com/).
• ST Microelectronics
• Texas Instruments

See also 'ADSL'.

Cache

CAD/CAM software for PCB's

See EDA.

Caller ID

local	Definition
www.ee.washington.edu/circuit_archive/text/	Look under 'Caller ID Information'

Camera

See Video Camera.

INTEL FOCUSES ON PC CAMERAS
PC Imaging is becoming more compelling and affordable than ever before, thanks to PC camera technologies from Intel.

Intel's new 971 PC Camera Kit is a comprehensive reference design that enables the quick time-to-market development of simpler, easier and more affordable PC Cameras.

See the technology that makes PC Cameras a snap to build, and the press release at..

www.intel.com/pressroom/archive/releases/pi110397.htm

CAN

Capacitor

Captive Fastener

Cardbus

See PCMCIA

Cardbus System Architecture

Don Anderson of Mindshare, Inc

Addison-Wesley,

1996

ISBN: 0201409976

About $25

www.pc-card.com/ - WWW site of PCMCIA

Case

See also Enclosure and Rack

CCITT

See also ANSI, CEN, DIN, IEEE, ISO, NEN

CD

www.licensing.philips.com/information/	Philips: About the CD, CD-ROM, DVD-video, DVD_ROM, DVD+RW standards etc.
www.ifpi.org/	International Federation of the Phonographic Industry
www.ifpi.org/site-content/press/20011220.html	IFPI: About pirated CD's in the Ukraine

CD-ROM programming

CEBus

www.ednmag.com/ednmag/reg/1999/070899/14cs2.htm - Article in EDN

See also Lonworks

Cellular phone

www.worldofcellularsecrets.com/ (gone?)

CEM

Flextronics

Sanmina

Solectron

See also:

OEM	Original equipment manufacturer
local	Other CEM's

CEN

See also ANSI, CCITT, DIN, IEEE, ISO, NEN

Chemical

Chess computer

Chiplist

Chip making

local	MISC mailing list
local	Companies helping with making chips
www-mtl.mit.edu/semisubway.html	Semiconductor Subway: Semiconductor Research

I'm currently doing a project with some of my friends on creating a chip ourselves. We have a small program called IDaSS (Interactive Design and Simulation System) which works at register/buffer/operator/state machine level (mostly for microcontrollers and sorts. You can find it at
www.eb.ele.tue.nl/proj/idassfly.html (beta version, still in development)
It can be output to a silicon compiler to put onto the wafer.
Please let me know if you need any info, the programmer is my teacher.

Marc Rietman <M.H.M.Rietman@stud.tue.nl>

Chipset

developer.intel.com/design/chipsets/	Chipsets from Intel
www.intel.com/design/motherbd/atx.htm	The form factor for the current ATX standard motherboards
www.sysdoc.pair.com/	Tom's Hardware Guide
www.matrix-bios.nl/	Alle Metzlar's BIOS site

See also under BIOS.

Choke

Circuit Breaker

Circuit Schematic

local	About PCB making
transgalactic.freeyellow.com/scm/scm.htm	PWM circuits and more in HPGL
www.doknet.nl/	Order schematics for repairing consumer electronics
www.muzique.com/	Analog Music Zone
www.ee.washington.edu/circuit_archive/	Circuits Archive
www.ee.washington.edu/eeca/circuits/	Circuits
www.hut.fi/Misc/Electronics/circuits/	Circuits
www.vancouver-webpages.com/pub/peter/nmea_interface.txt	NMEA interface schematic
www.ee.ualberta.ca/html/cookbook.html	Electronic Cookbook Archive
ftp.psyber.com/dibsed/CIRCATS/	Gif format schematics (David I. Baldwin)
www.fortunecity.com/tinpan/humperdinck/223/effect.htm	Humperdinck House (Guitar effects)
www.eklektix.com/gfc/elect/	Lots of circuits
www.imagineeringezine.com/links.html	More links to circuit sites
www.uslink.net/~cybercir/	Program with over 1100 electronic circuits etc. (Costs $39)
www.radioshack.com/sw/swb/	Steve's Workbench at Radio Shack
www.capilano.com/schematic/free_schematics.html	At Capilano using their format
www.firebottle.com/ampage/schems/	Musical instruments with tubes
tinpan.fortunecity.com/solidgold/29/	Guitar effects and more
www.solorb.com/gfc/elect/pbscms.html	FC's Electronic Circuits
www.muzique.com/	AMZ musical schematics (slow on 20010513)
www.mitedu.freeserve.co.uk/	Circuit Exchange International
www.web-ee.com/	Electrical Engineering Homepage

Books:

title	order at Amazon USA	price indication
Encyclopedia of Electronic Circuits, Volume 7	ISBN: 0070151164	$32
3,000 Solved Problems in Electrical Circuits (Schaum's Solved Problems Series)	ISBN: 0070459363	$20
The Forrest Mims Engineer's Notebook	ISBN: 1878707035	$16	A have the old Radio Shack version!

John wrote in 'news:sci.electronics.repair':

Does anyone know a good site to find circuit diagrams for televisions? I need a circuit diagram for a 'Toshiba colour TV' model no. 145E7B.

Usual answer for people in the UK: Go to your local public libaray. There is an annually published book of schematics (and other service info) titled "Television Servicing". Normally in the reference dept.

I copied one for a Toshiba 175T9B just this Saturday...

There are also series for VCRs, and for Satellite receivers.

Regards, Mike.

C Programming Language

C++ Library

CND

See Caller ID.

COFF

Common Object File Format

Understanding and Using COFF

By Gintaras R. Gircys

ISBN: 0937175315

O'Reilly & Associates, Inc.

632 Petaluma Avenue

Sebastopol, CA 95472

(O'Reilly is also quite active on the Internet.)

• It's out of print
• O'Reilly has no stock on hand
• They have specifically said it will never be reprinted
• They would be willing to put the info on the web but they have noidea how to do that, so it won't happen any time soon.

Ken Greenberg <ken@calast.com>

Description of the format from SUN.

Emails about COFF.

Coil

Commodore 64/128

Chips that it contained:

6581	C64's sound chip (SID). It has 3 AM* synthsizer channels and one 4-bit sample channel...
6510 CBM	Basically a 6502 with 2 8bit I/O ports added to it (Used for memory paging and tape I/O)	(Or just one 6-bit I/O port?)
6526	CIA (Complex Interface Adapter). A super I/O chip with 2 8bit I/O channels,	a serial port, real-time clock, 2 programmable timer/counters.
906114-01	2Kx4 SRAM*
6569R3	C64's video chip

More about the special chips that they contained

See also:

• Amiga

Communication Program

It's use is mainly:

• Being able to execute commands on the controller and see it's output.
• Being able to upload programs to the controller for testing.
• (Capturing the output of the controller for analyzing.)

Platform	suggested programs to use	where to find?
UNIX	CU	standard
UNIX	Kermit	GNU?
DEC UNIX	Tip	standard
Linux	Minicom (looks like DOS's Telix/Procom)	standard, freshmeat.net/
Windows3.1	'Terminal'	standard
Windows3.1	Procomm for DOS	Simtel, www.qdeck.com/
Windows3.1	Telix for DOS	Simtel
Windows3.1	Telix for Windows	Simtel
Windows95	?
Windows98	?

CompactPCI

CompactPCI
www.compactpci.com/	(gone?)
www.gespac.com/
www.prolog.com/	Bought by the Motorola Computer Group
www.ziatech.com/

CompactPCI Systems Magazine

Compiler

Where	Manufacturer
www.borland.com/	Borland

A CD-ROM for compiler developers

Computer Architecture

www.cs.wisc.edu/~arch/www/

Computer architecture

Connector

• MIDI
• Printer
• SIMM72

home.concepts-ict.nl/~nctnico/docs/simm_pin.txt	SIMM pinouts
www.zettweb.com/semiconductors/hwb/	Connectors in general
www.hut.fi/~then/	Tomi Engdahl's site for PC stuff
theref.aquascape.com/ - (gone?)	TheRef: Mainly floppy and HD* connections

Where	Manufacturer
www.3m.com/	3M
www.advintcorp.com/	Advanced Interconnect
www.amp.com/	AMP* Inc.
www.amphenol.com/	Amphenol
www.bergelect.com/	Berg Electronics
www.ca-online.com/	Circuit Assembly Corp.
www.daburn.com/	Daburn Electronic
www.vishay.com/brands/dale/connectors.html	Dale
www.deutsch.com/	Deutsch
www.edac.net	EDAC
www.elco.com/	Elco
www.hollingsworth.com/	Hollingsworth
www.idinet.com/	Interconnect Devices, Inc.
www.kycon.com/	Kycon Cable and Connector
www.methode.com/	Methode
www.mill-max.com/	Mill-Max
www.molex.com/	Molex Inc.
www.panduit.com/	Panduit
www.phoenixcontact.com/	Phoenix Contact
www.samtec.com/	Samtec
www.trompeter.com/	Trompeter Electronics
catalog.tycoelectronics.com/	Tyco Electronics

See also PCI.

Convert

COP8

See local

Course

• More

CPLD

www.xilinx.com/products/cpldsolutions/

More info

See also FPAA, FPGA, PLD and VHDL.

CPU

CRC

local	CRC
ftp.adelaide.edu.au/pub/rocksoft/crc_v3.txt	CRC Guide (91K)

Crossref IC

Crystal