Electronic Glossary

A PCB manufacturing process for obtaining conductive patterns by the selective deposition of conductive material on CCL or unclad base material.

Audio Frequency (AF)

Artificial Intelligence (AI) are devices and applications that exhibit human intelligence and behavior, including robots, self-driving cars, medical diagnosis and the ever-improving areas of voice, face and natural language recognition. Virtually every industry from finance to agriculture is using or …

The Automotive Industry Action Group (AIAG) is a not-for profit association founded in 1982 and based in Southfield, Michigan. It was originally created to develop recommendations and a framework for the improvement of quality in the North American automotive industry. …

Automatic identification and data capture (AIDC), also commonly called as Automatic Identification, Auto-ID and Automatic Data Capture, which refers to the methods of automatically identifying objects, collecting data about them, and entering them directly into computer systems, without human involvement. …

Alternating Current (AC) is an electric current that rises to a maximum in one direction, falls back to zero and then rises to a maximum in the opposite direction and then repeats.

see Amplitude Modulation (AM) and FM

The surrounding environment coming into contact with the system or component in question.

a unit of electrical current, also referred to as amp.

Amplifier is a circuit that increases the voltage, current, or power of a signal. Amplifier is also a device that accepts a low-power signal and outputs a high-power signal that matches the waveform of the input. Amplifiers are available to boost …