Electronic Glossary

A beveled edge is typically used to make the leading edge of a circuit board more pointed so that it can be inserted into a connecting device. The standard is a 30 degree bevel. An example would be a PCI …

An angled edge of a printed circuit board usually for gold fingers. The standard beveling angles are 30°, 45° and 60°.

Ball Grid Array (BGA) is a type of surface-mount packaging (a chip carrier) used for integrated circuits. BGA packages are used to permanently mount devices such as microprocessors. A ball-grid array can provide more interconnection pins than can be put …

A DC voltage applied to a device to control its operation.

BINary is a popular directory name in the Unix world for storing executable programs, device drivers and other binary files. See bin file.

What Is A Bin File?   In Binary or Bin File, the .BIN extension is used for a variety of files including graphics and other non-text files. See Binary and BIN. A binary file is a computer file that is …

(1) A binary is an executable program. See BIN and BIN File. (2) Meaning two. Binary is the principle behind digital computers. All input to the computer is converted into binary digits that are either 0 or 1. For example, …

Alloy consisting of two metals (e.g. tin/lead or tin/silver).

A Binary Code represents text, computer processor instructions, or any other data using a two-symbol system. The two-symbol system used is often “0” and “1” from the binary number system. The binary code assigns a pattern of binary digits, also …

Bipolar Junction Transistor (BJT) is a three terminal device in which emitter to collector current is controlled by base current.