Electronic Glossary

What’s LLP Package?   The Leadless Leadframe Package (LLP) is a leadframe based chip scale package (CSP) that may enhance chip speed, reduce thermal impedance, and reduce the printed circuit board (PCB) space required for SMT assembly. The small size …

A source drives a load. Whatever component or piece of equipment is connected to a source and draws current from a source is a load on that source.

What is a Load Current?   A Load Current is the amount of electrical current that is passed from a power supply to the device or component receiving the power. Most power supply are only capable of providing certain amounts …

What is a Load Impedance?   A Load or Load Impedance is the concept of connecting a device or component to the output of a functional block, thus drawing from it a measurable amount of current. For example, you can …

What is Load Regulation?   Load Regulation is the capability to maintain a constant voltage (or current) level on the output channel of a power supply despite changes in the supply’s load (such as a change in resistance value connected …

Science of dealing with the principle and applications of gates, relays and switches.

What Are Logic Circuits?   Logic circuits are electronic circuits that perform some type of processing or controlling function. See logic device. Logic circuits use two different values of a physical quantity, usually voltage, to present the Boolean values true …

What Is A Programmable Logic Device (PLD)?   A Programmable Logic Device (PLD) is an electronic component used to build reconfigurable digital circuits. Unlike integrated circuit (IC) which consists of logic gates and have a fixed function, a PLD has …

What is a Logic Gate?   A Logic Gate is an idealized model of computation or physical electronic device implementing a Boolean function, a logical operation performed on one or more binary inputs that produces a single binary output. Depending …

Electronic components come in a multitude of different shapes and sizes, and not all of those shapes or sizes will fit neatly into convenient Tape-and-Reel, Cut Tape, Tube or Tray packaging. When none of these options will suffice, the final …