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• Passive analogue filter development
  ...roughs and have been the source of enormous profits for telecommunications companies. It should come as no surprise, therefore, that the early development of fi ...lectronics with the addition of [[transducer]]s to convert to and from the electrical domain. Indeed some of the earliest ideas for filters were acoustic resonat
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• Digital electronics
  ...ignal state. Relatively small changes to the analog signal levels due to [[Engineering tolerance|manufacturing tolerance]], [[Path loss|signal attenuation]] or [[ The output of a logic gate is an electrical [[Electrical current|flow]] or voltage, that can, in turn, control more logic gates.
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• Thermal management of electronic devices and systems
  ...Electronic circuit|circuit]]ry must be dissipated to improve [[Reliability engineering|reliability]] and prevent premature [[failure]].<ref>[http://www.aavidtherm ...ynamic heat dissipation capability of a device, in an analogous way to the electrical case.<ref>[http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=1624&page=59 Materials
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• Electronic design automation
  ...collectively referred to as '''DMV'''. Within a few years there were many companies specializing in EDA, each with a slightly different emphasis. The first tra ...he [[semiconductor fabrication]] facilities, or "fabs", and design-service companies who use EDA software to evaluate an incoming design for manufacturing readi
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• Moore's law
  ...rved as a goal for an entire industry. This drove both [[marketing]] and [[engineering]] departments of [[semiconductor]] manufacturers to focus enormous energy a ...act url=http://www.stfc.ac.uk/Resources/PDF/Lasers50_final1.pdf |publisher=Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council |accessdate=2011-08-22}}</ref>
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• Single-sideband modulation
  ...nt of [[amplitude modulation]] that more efficiently uses [[electric power|electrical power]] and [[bandwidth (signal processing)|bandwidth]]. ...[[frequency-division multiplexing]] (FDM). FDM was pioneered by telephone companies in the 1930s. This enabled many voice channels to be sent down a single phy
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• Oscilloscope types
  ...tion of a second to remain on the screen for several minutes or longer. An electrical circuit can then be deliberately activated to store and erase the trace on ...of this type, with storage at the phosphor, were made by Tektronix. Other companies, notably Hughes, earlier made storage oscilloscopes with a more-elaborate a
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• IEEE-488
  ...y to implement using the technology at the time, using a simple parallel [[electrical bus]] and several individual control lines. For example, the HP 59501 Power ...entation'', '''IEEE-488''' (now IEEE-488.1). It formalized the mechanical, electrical, and basic protocol parameters of GPIB, but said nothing about the format o
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