Electronic Glossary

General type of solder mask applied by screen. Usually refers to types of solder mask like SR-1000 and PC-103/4. LPI is NOT a type of wet mask.

A slender needle-shaped growth between conductors and lands which occurs after the printed board has been manufactured.

Wi-Fi, sometimes called WiFi, is a family of wireless network protocols, based on the IEEE 802.11 family of standards, which are commonly used for local area networking (LAN) of devices and internet access, allowing nearby digital devices to exchange data …

In PCB field, WIP (Work in Process) are partially finished printed circuit boards (PCBs) or PCB assemblies (PCBAs) being fabricated or waiting for further processing in queue under the roof of a turnkey PCB assembly manufacturer. With the management of …

Usual definition: single solid or stranded group of conductors having a low resistance to current flow. Used to make connections between circuits or points in a circuit. Besides its usual definition of a strand of conductor, wire on a printed …

Wire Bondable Gold also called Soft Gold. It is softer than other gold finishes which allows it to be bonded to more easily for stronger and more conductive and stronger connections. It is 99.99% pure – 24 carat gold with …

The method used to attach very fine wire to semiconductor components (dice) to interconnect these components with each other or with package leads. There are aluminum wire bonding, silver wire bonding and gold wire bonding.

Resistor in which the resistive element is a length of high resistance wire or ribbon usually nichrome wound onto an insulating form.

A portion of a board riddled with plated-through holes on a 100-mil grid. Its purpose is for accepting circuits which may be found necessary after a PCB has been manufactured, stuffed, tested and debugged.

What’s Wireless?   Wireless Communication (or just Wireless, when the context allows) is the electromagnetic transfer of information between two or more points that do not use an electrical conductor as a medium by which to perform the transfer. The …