Electronic Glossary

What’s FCPGA Package?   A Flip-chip Pin Grid Array (FC-PGA or FCPGA) is a form of pin grid array (PGA) in which the die faces downwards on the top of the substrate with the back of the die exposed. This …

Functional Testing (FCT) is a crucial and final PCB Assembly Manufacturing step prior to integration of the PCB assemblies into complete systems.

Feed-Thru VIA is a plated through hole (PTH) in a Printed Circuit Board that is used to provide electrical connection between a trace on one side of the board to a trace on the other side. Since it is not …

What is Ferrite?   Ferrite is a ceramic-like material with magnetic properties that are useful in many types of electronic devices. Ferrites are hard, brittle, iron-containing, and generally gray or black and are polycrystalline – i.e., made up of a …

What is a Ferrite Bead?   A Ferrite Bead is a passive device that filters high-frequency noise energy over a broad frequency range. It becomes resistive over its intended frequency range and dissipates the noise energy in the form of …

Inductors   Inductors are an electronic component that store electrical energy in a magnetic field when electrical current passes through. They are made using an insulated wire wound into a coil. When electricity flows into this coil from left-to-right direction, …

What are Ferrites?   Ferrites are usually ferrimagnetic ceramic compounds derived from iron oxides. Magnetic (Fe3Q4) is famous example. Like most of the other ceramics, ferrites are hard, brittle, and poor conductors of electricity.     Many ferrites adopt the …

A Field-Effect Transistor (FET) is a unipolar device, which functions as a voltage amplifier.

What Is FET Biasing?   In electronics, Biasing is the setting of initial operating conditions (current and voltage) of an active device in an amplifier. Many electronic devices, such as diodes, transistors and vacuum tubes, whose function is processing time-varying …

Flat Flexible Cable (FFC) refers to any variety of electrical cable that is both flat and flexible, with flat solid conductors. A flexible flat cable is a type of flexible electronics. However, the term FFC usually refers to the extremely …