Electronic Glossary

In SMT assembly process, PCB loader is used to transport bare PCBs to rails before solder paste printing, and this machine can save labor.

Printed Circuit Board Assembly (PCBA), or PCB Assembly.

Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) is a local computer bus for attaching hardware devices in a computer and is part of the PCI Local Bus standard.

What’s PCI Express?   Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) Express, officially abbreviated as PCIe or PCI-e, is a high-speed serial computer expansion bus standard, designed to replace the older PCI, PCI-X and AGP bus standards. It is the common motherboard interface …

What’s PCI-X?   Peripheral Component Interconnect eXtended (PCI-X) is a computer bus and expansion card standard that enhances the 32-bit PCI local bus for higher bandwidth demanded mostly by servers and workstation. It uses a modified protocol to support higher …

PCMCIA stands for Personal Computer Memory Card International Association, was a group of computer hardware manufacturers, operating under that name from 1989 to 2009/2010. Starting with the eponymous PCMCIA card in 1990, it created various standards for peripheral interfaces designed …

Personal Computer Memory Card International Association (PCMCIA): The name of the organization that developed standards for PC cards in the 1990s, but often used for the standard formats themselves. The original document provided physical specifications for three types of cards …

What’s PDIP?   Plastic Dual In-line Package (PDIP) is one of the most mature plastic IC packages still in use today. It is rectangular in shape and has leads extending from both sides along its length, thus forming two sets …

What’s Peak Inverse Voltage?   Peak Inverse Voltage (PIV) is the maximum rated value of an AC voltage acting in the direction opposite to that in which a device is designed to pass current. In semiconductor diodes, PRV (peak reverse …

Peak to Peak (pk-pk) is the difference between the maximum positive and the maximum negative amplitudes of a wave form, as shown below. If there is no direct current (DC) component in an alternating current (AC) wave, then the pk-pk …