Electronic Glossary

Flash gold is hard gold with a maximum thickness of 3 micro inches. It is very thin and requires special handling.

Flash Memory is an electronic non-volatile computer memory storage medium that can be electrically erased and reprogrammed. The two main types of flash memory, NOR flash and NAND flash, are named after the NAND and NOR logic gates. The individual …

What Is Flat Pack?   Ceramic, Glass, Metal FlatPack (sometime Flat Pack, or Flat Package) is a rectangular package with leads on opposite sides of the package, and square package (Quad Flat Pack, QFP) with leads are on all four …

Flip Chips are structures that house circuits interconnected face down directly to the substrate with solder bumpers without leads, and are utilized to minimize printed circuit board surface area when compact packaging is required.

What is a Flip Flop?   In electronics, a Flip Flop (sometimes Flip-flop) is a circuit with two stable states that can be used to store binary data. The stored data can be changed by applying varying inputs. Flip flops …

The Floating-gate MOSFET (FGMOS), also known as a Floating-gate MOS Transistor or Floating-gate Transistor, is a type of metal–oxide–semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET) where the gate is electrically isolated, creating a floating node in direct current, and a number of secondary …

Flow Soldering is also called Wave Soldering. Flow Soldering is a bulk PCB assembly process used in printed circuit boards manufacturing. The circuit board is passed over a pan of molten solder, in which a pump produces an upwelling of …

Flux, or Solder Flux, is a kind of chemical used in automatic PCB assembly, hand soldering, or rework. It is basically used to clean surface of PCB before soldering process. These oxides deposited on the board may not permit good …

See Frequency Modulation (FM)

Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA; often written with “Failure Modes” in plural) is the process of reviewing as many components, assemblies, and subsystems as possible to identify potential failure modes in a system and their causes and effects. For …