10/21/2002 Engineering & Science Crossword Puzzle

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ACROSS 1 Oscillator manufacturer in Whippany, NJ (abbr.) 4 Network controllers 10 Software drafting tool 13 Indium phosphide 15 Undesirable background information 16 Error checking scheme 18 Type of model airplane control system, abbr. 20 Greek letter 22 Carrier-to-noise ratio 23 Video display measurement, abr. 24 Home state of Los Alamos lab 25 Threaded anchors 28 Cause nonlinearities 30 Powers pneumatic devices 31 Waveguide manufacturer in Edinburg, VA 34 Institute of Electrical Engineers (U.K.) 36 Plastic Chip Carrier 38 Coder/decoder 39 Electronic warfare defense 41 Temperature Coefficient 43 Logic gates 45 Gun safety and education organization 46 Type of current flow 47 Wire bundle 48 It's now named Inprise 49 Electromagnetic 50 National Science Board 53 These and cones populate the retina 54 Modulation type 55 Field Effect Transistor 56 Has a positive phase wrt a reference 59 Type of memory 61 Negative temperature coefficient 62 Producer of Delphi programming software 64 1/000 of an inch 66 Elementary particles 68 Describes a waveform that has periodic variation 71 Personal Computer 72 RF resistor manufacturer in Boone, NC 73 Thread cutting tool 75 Peripheral Component Interface 76 Government lawyer, abbr. 77 Line of sight 78 _____-wise linear 80 Low- to mid- frequency connector 82 Charged particle 83 Bill's famous OS 84 Gallium nitride	DOWN 2 Semiconductor and calculator company 3 Electrical node 5 Army-Navy spec 6 System On Chip 7 Added solder to tip of iron 8 Capacitor quality spec. 9 Component of product cost 10 No overshooting and no undershooting 11 Type of current flow 12 Micro Channel Architecture 14 Precision radar, abbr. 16 Hz 17 Surface mount technology 19 Low Noise Amplifier 21 United Technologies, abbr. 23 RF switching diode 24 Component of product cost 26 Half of a DIP 27 System On Chip 28 Data conversion device 29 Original equipment manufacturer 32 Short for logarithm 33 Metal parts engineers 35 Archaic reference for outer space 37 Peak of a waveform 39 A faulty bit of programming 40 Wideband CDMA 42 Person responsible for program spending, abbr. 44 Half of DSB 45 Logic gate 46 Automatic network analyzer 51 BER. 8 bits at a time 52 Personal Digital Assistant 55 Network file transfer protocol 56 Line of sight 57 System engineering company 58 Signal-to-noise ratio 60 1/000 of an inch 61 Semiconductor manufacturer 62 Low- to mid- frequency connector 63 Twice a SIP 65 Semiconductor lamp 66 Filter type 67 Logic gates 69 Substrate for mounting components 70 Government lawyers, abbr. 73 Connector family (German origin) 74 Official engineering change document 77 Local Oscillator 78 Ratio of circumference to diameter 79 Modern battlefield technique 81 Super glue, abbr.
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