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Topics beginning with "C"
C7 Common Channel Signaling System No. 7 or Signalling System 7 a widely used ITU signalling protocol standard for PSTN telephone calls.
Cable Assemblies enable IO signal paths.
Cable Assembly bound / sheathed group of wire or fiber conductors.
Cable Fault Finders Use time domain reflectometry to locate signal loss or a Murray loop bridge.
Cable Fault Locators Use time domain reflectometry to locate signal loss or a Murray loop bridge.
Cable Finders detect an induced or directly transmitted signal through a cable to trace its location.
Cable Locators detect an induced or directly transmitted signal through a cable to trace its location.
Cable Modems Modulate - Demodulate data signals over CATV.
Cables
Cable TDR
Cable Television Community Antenna Television or. Community Access Television service.
Cable Testers evaluate the integrity of wire or fiber bundles.
Cable Tracers Identify a wire's path.
Cable Trackers Identify a wire's path.
Cable TV Community Antenna Television or. Community Access Television service.
Calibration maintains accuracy of test asset by correcting out of specification conditions.
Calibration Services Adjust test elements to desired specifications.
Calibration Software Generate a reading during a calibration, analyze it, and manage the calibration data.
Calibrators ascertain instrument graduation deviation and rectify to precision known values.
Call Analyzers
Call-Generation check telecom networks by call event validation.
Call Generators check telecom networks by call event validation.
Calorimeters measure heat during an event and the heat capacity of the material.
CAMAC Computer Automated Measurement And Control. Standard parallel bus for Data Acquisition with 450ns transfer rate.
Cameras capture images.
CAN Controller Area Network
Can bus Controller Area Network
CANBus Controller Area Network
Cannabis fibrous plant used as a textile and drug.
CANopen Industrial open networking standard for sensors, actuators and controllers.
Capacitance measured in farads the amount of stored charge.
Capacitance Bridges A bridge that compares capacitance of a reference capacitor to DUT.
Capacitance Decade Boxes
Capacitance Meters Measure capacitors.
Capacitor A non-conductor storing electrical energy.
Capacitor Testers
Car four wheeled vehicle.
Carbon Dioxide An acidic oxide chemical compound.
Carbon Monoxide a toxic gas devoid of odor, color and taste.
CardBus CardBus is a 32-bit bus for connecting peripherals to laptops at a bandwidth of 133MB/s.
Cargo good conveyed by vehicle.
Carriers Carrier devices are practical for adapting your product to a standard interface for testing on the bench or in the chamber.
CASS Consolidated Automatic Support System USN
CAT Computer Aided Test
CAT5 Category 5 cable.
CAT6 Category 6 cable.
CAT 6 Category 6 cable.
CAT 7 telecommunication premises cabling standard operating at 600 MHz.
Category 5 Category 5 cable.
CATV Community Antenna Television or. Community Access Television service.
CATV Power Meters Detect, measure, and monitor the intensity of a CATV signal.
CATV Test
CCD Devices for recording images, typically consisting of an integrated circuit (IC) with an array of coupled capacitors.
CCS7 Common Channel Signaling System No. 7 or Signalling System 7 a widely used ITU signalling protocol standard for PSTN telephone calls.
CCTV Video surveillance system consisting of cameras, linked by secure cables directly to viewing and recording devices.
CCTV Testers
CD A Compact recording Disc.
CD Analyzers
CDMA A technique for spread-spectrum multiple access digital communication.
CDMA2000 Is the code-division multiple access (CDMA) version of the IMT-2000 standard, operating at > 144 Kbps to < 2 Mbps.
Ceilometers
Cell Phone A mobile telophone which uses short range trasmitters in overlapping cells, arranged in a network with a common central unit making connections to regular telephone lines.
Cellular A wireless telecom network composed of overlapping coverage areas called cells.
Cellular Phone A mobile telophone which uses short range trasmitters in overlapping cells, arranged in a network with a common central unit making connections to regular telephone lines.
Cement binding ingredient unto itself, concrete or mortar.
Central Office Switch Telephone Exhcange
Certifiers Assure standards are met.
Cesium References A primary frequency standard in which electronic transitions between the two hyperfine ground states of cesium-133 atoms control the output frequency.
Cesium Standards A primary frequency standard in which electronic transitions between the two hyperfine ground states of cesium-133 atoms control the output frequency.
CF Flash technology storage that retains data without a battery.
CG a reference signal source outputing multiple harmonics of the input signal.
Chambers an enclosed isolated enviroment to perform controlled analysis.
Charge Amplifiers A high-gain voltage amplifier with negative, capacitive feedback for converting a charge into a low impedance output voltage.
Charge-Coupled Device Devices for recording images, typically consisting of an integrated circuit (IC) with an array of coupled capacitors.
Chart Recorders Input a record to paper.
Chassis Infrastructure housing for instrument cards typically containing a power supply, cooling fans and emi shielding.
Checkers Prove out evaluation criterion.
Chemiluminescence light light during a chemical reaction.
Chip Passive or active components test and their interconnected circuitry in silicon or germanium.
Chromatic Dispersion Light's differential group delay through a waveguide; ie. optical fiber.
Chromometers color standard reference to subject of comparison.
Chucks Hold DUTs in place.
Circuit Breaker A switch automatically thrown in the event of a short or overload.
Circuit Breaker Finders match a circuit to a breaker.
Circuit Testers Analyze board, semiconductor, and cable interconnections.
CISPR Comité International Spécial des Perturbations Radioélectriques (Special international committee on radio interference).
Clampmeters combine meter and current probe into integrated instrument.
Clamp Meters combine meter and current probe into integrated instrument.
Clamp Multimeters
Classification order by relation to shared values.
Clips afix test lead to UUT, DUT or component.
Clocks measure time.
Cloud computer services available on demand over the internet.
CMOS Complementary Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor is a low power and heat integrated circuit.
CO a toxic gas devoid of odor, color and taste.
CO2 An acidic oxide chemical compound.
Coaxial Matrix route radio frequency signals through a a grid array.
Coaxial Probes Coaxial Probes spring contact up to 20 GHz.
Coaxial Switches Route RF offering excellent signal repeatability and isolation.
Coaxial Switching Route RF offering excellent signal repeatability and isolation.
Code
Code Analysis
Code Analyzers
Code Debug Program to locate run-time errors.
Code Debuggers Program to locate run-time errors.
Code Debugging Program to locate run-time errors.
Code Division Multiple Access A technique for spread-spectrum multiple access digital communication.
Coercivity magnetic field necessary to demagnetize a material.
COFDM Coded Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing.
Coil One or more spiral turns of a conductor.
Collimators Align and line up rays.
Color Analyzers Luminance and chromaticity measurement of color displays.
Colorimeters measuring human perceived color brightness, hue, and saturation.
Colorimetry measuring color brightness, hue, and saturation.
Color Meters Measure color, illuminance and color temperature.
Comb Generators a reference signal source outputing multiple harmonics of the input signal.
COMINT COMmunications INTelligence
COMM The transmission of data from one computer to another, or from one device to another. (sbc.webopedia.com)
Communication The transmission of data from one computer to another, or from one device to another. (sbc.webopedia.com)
Communication Analyzers
Communication Protocol set of rules governing the formatting and handling of communication systems.
Communications Test
CompactFlash Flash technology storage that retains data without a battery.
CompactPCI Compact PCI is designed to address the needs of industrial/embedded users who need the performance and functionality of PCI in a more rugged package.
Compact PCI Compact PCI is designed to address the needs of industrial/embedded users who need the performance and functionality of PCI in a more rugged package.
CompactPCI Backplanes
CompactPCI Chassis A metal frame that serves as the structural support for a CompactPCI bus. (sbc.webopedia.com)
CompactPCI Controllers
CompactPCI Digitizers
CompactPCI Express electro-mechano interoperability with PXI Express.
Comparators Contrast similar or divergent values.
Compatibility works together with...
Compliance assures conformance.
Compliance Test The assurance of device compliance with specifically defined requirements.
Component Testing of individual hardware or software components or groups of related components.
Component Analyzers
Component Test A combination of two or more interrelated equipment (sets) arranged in a functional package to perform testing of particular components. (atis.org)
Component Testers
Component Video Analog YPbPr video signal over two or more paths.
Composite Video Picture only analog video made up of sync pulses, luminance and chrominance source signals.
Compressor Reduce volume by pressing together.
Computed Tomography use of X-rays or ultrasound to scab abd cross section an object.
Computer Devices that accept and process data in accordance with a stored program, generating results. (atis.org)
Computer Aided Test Computer Aided Test
Conditioners
Conductivity Meters Measure units of siemens per metre.
Conduit 1) channel's liquids or solids. 2) means of protecting wire or wireless connections.
Confocal imaging from light only of the scopic target.
Conformance assures device performance within a specific range of requirements.
Connectors dock multiple contact or data junctions.
Consulting People who are experts in their fields and advise others.
Contactors Electro mechano connection between the DUT and ATE interface board.
Contaminant
Contamination
Continuity Test devices which measure shorts over a large amount of test points.
Continuity Test Verification of a complete circuit.
Continuity Testers Verify circuits by providing an audible or visible indication when a sufficiently low resistance is applied between input probes.
Continuous Wave Wave having a constant amplitude and frequency.
Continuous Waveform Wave having a constant amplitude and frequency.
Contour Projectors Measure the profile of small flat objects or camparison check.
Control Known value
Controllers direct and or manage action.
Control Software
Converters Change a form or value and shows or transforms it into a different scale or value.
Conveyance is a means or process of transport.
Core Loss inductor energy loss due to changing magnetic field.
Corona
COTS Commercial off the shelf
Countermeasure remove or mitigate a threat.
Counters detect the number of events.
Countersurveillance measures to discover and avoid surveillance.
Counter Surveillance measures to discover and avoid surveillance.
Counter / Timers
Couplers enable a signal to be used in another circuit.
Coupling Network Inject RF disturbance signals.
CPLD Complex programmable logic device.
CPU Central Processing Unit. Computer components responible for executing processes. CPUs execute calculations, manipulate data, generate control signals, and store results.
Crack material separation flaw.
Crate Infrastructure housing for instrument cards typically containing a power supply, cooling fans and emi shielding.
Crawford Cells transversal electromagnetic mode cells.
Crawlers
Crockmeters test color fastness of textiles and leather.
Crowdsourced teams of people, exercising test regimes assuring application fulfillment.
CRT Cathode Ray Tube
Crush compress to point of destruction.
Cryo cold to extreme cold.
Cryogenic Probes
Crypto
Cryptography
Crystal Oscillators A crystal or piezoelectric element which resonates at a precise frequency made from quartz, rubidium or ceramics.
Crystals
CSA Canadian Standards Association
CSP Test connector assemblies that mate with the pads on an integrated circuit's chip size packaging.
CT 1) Current Transformer 2) Computed Tomography
C.T. transfers accurately proportional levels of current to multiple circuits.
CT Test measures insulation, excitation current, turns ratio, winding polarity saturation and/or winding resistance. Current Transformers
Current
Current Calibrators An accurate current units of measure to facilitate comparison to and adjustment of instruments.
Current Clamps measure AC or AC-DC amperage without contacting conductors.
Current Comparators
Current Detectors
Current Generators Produce electric current.
Current Injection
Current Loggers
Current Meters Measure current using either "Average responding" meters reading linear loads or "True RMS" meters measuring non linear loads.
Current Probes measure AC or AC-DC amperage without contacting conductors.
Current Profilers measure water current velocity across a range of depths.
Current Sensors detect AC or DC electrical current.
Current Shunts Resistors with known accurate values to measure current.
Current Sources
Current Transducers
Current Transformers transfers accurately proportional levels of current to multiple circuits.
Current Transformer Test measures insulation, excitation current, turns ratio, winding polarity saturation and/or winding resistance. Current Transformers
Current-Voltage measure of current flow as a function of voltage.
Curve Tracers curve tracers are pieces of electronic test equipment similar to an oscilloscope. They can not only test transistors and other devices but evaluate the functional specifications as well.
CW Wave having a constant amplitude and frequency.
CW Lasers Continuous wave lasers output energy in pulses lasting in duration >0.25s.
Cyber Security
Cyclers