| C |
Capacitance or capacitor |
| C |
Carbonc |
| c |
Centi (10-2) |
| C |
Centigrade. |
| c |
Speed of light in vacuum |
| C & W |
Cable and Wireless |
| C (Q) |
Coulomb |
| CA |
CIM Architecture |
| CAA |
CIM Applications Architecture |
| CAD |
Command Area Development |
| CAD |
Computer Aided Designing. |
| CADT |
Control Application Development tool |
| CAE |
Computer-Aided Engineering |
| CAF |
Cathotic Annodic Filaments |
| CAFM |
Computer Aided Facilities Management |
| CAG |
Competitive Analysis Group |
| CAI |
Computer-Assisted Instruction |
| CAIBE |
Chemically-Assisted Ion Beam Etching |
| CALS |
Computer-Aided Logistics Support (Air Force Program) |
| CAM |
Computer aided manufacture |
| CAM |
Conditional Access Module. |
| CAM |
Content Addressable Memory |
| CAN |
Control Area Network. |
| CAPP |
Computer Aided Process Planning |
| CAPS |
Computer-Assisted Problem Solving |
| CAR |
Computer-Aided Repair |
| CAR |
Computer-Aided Research |
| CARRI |
Computerized Assessment of Relative Risk Impacts |
| CASE |
Computer-Aided Software Engineering |
| CASE |
Computer-Aided Systems Engineering |
| CAT |
Career Aptitude Test. |
| CAT |
Computer-Aided Testing |
| CAT |
Computerized Axial Tomography. |
| CAT |
Conditional Access Table |
| CATV |
Cable TV |
| CATV |
Community Access TeleVision |
| CAW |
Construction Analysis Workgroup |
| CAWC |
Cryogenic Aerosol Wafer Cleaning |
| CB |
Citizen's band |
| CB |
Common base configuration |
| CB |
Conduction Band |
| CBA |
Cell-Based Architecture |
| CBCPW |
Conductor Backed CoPlanar Waveguide |
| CBD |
Convergent Beam Diffraction |
| CBED |
Convergent Beam Electron Diffraction |
| CBGA |
Ceramic Ball Grid Array |
| CBM |
Conduction Band Minimum |
| CBT |
Computer-Based Training |
| CC |
Chip Carrier |
| CC |
Common collector |
| CC |
Composite Capabilities |
| CCA |
Circuit Card Assembly |
| CCAPS |
Circuit Assembly and Processing System |
| CCC |
Ceramic Chip Carrier |
| CCD |
Charge Coupled Device |
| CCD |
Configuration Coordinate Diagram |
| CCK |
Complimentary Code Keying. |
| CCSA |
China Communications Standards Association |
| CCSL |
Compatible Current-Sinking Logic |
| CCW |
Counter ClockWise |
| CD |
Compact Disc. |
| CD |
Critical Dimension |
| CDA |
Clean Dry Air |
| CDAC |
Centre of Development of Automatic Computing. |
| CDB |
Cell Delineation Block device |
| CDE |
Chemical Downstream Etch |
| CDEM |
Customer Delivery Enterprise Model |
| CDI |
Collector-Diffusion Isolation |
| CDMA |
Code Division Multiple Access |
| CDO |
Controlled Decomposition/Oxidation |
| CDPD |
Cellular Digital Packet Data |
| CDR |
Clock and Data Recovery |
| CDR |
Compact Disc Rewriteable/Recordable |
| CDR |
CorelDraw image format |
| CD/OL |
Critical Dimension Overlay |
| CE |
Common Emitter |
| CE |
Consumer Electronics. |
| CEA |
Constant Efficiency Amplifier |
| CEA |
Consumer Electronics Association |
| CEC |
Cell Evaluation Chip |
| CEE |
Control Execution Environment |
| CEF |
Crystal Electric Field |
| CEM |
Continuous Emissions Monitoring |
| CEPT |
COMETS Equipment Performance Tracking |
| CF |
Calibration Factor |
| CFA |
Component Failure Analysis |
| CFA |
Cross-Field Amplifier |
| CFC |
ChloroFluoroCarbon |
| CFD |
Computational Fluid Dynamics |
| CFI |
CAD Framework Initiative |
| CFI |
Common Flash-memory Interface |
| CFL |
Compact Flourscent Lamps. |
| CFM |
Contamination-Free Manufacturing |
| CFM |
Continuous Flow Manufacturing |
| CFMRC |
Contamination-Free Manufacturing Research Center |
| CFP |
Ceramic Flat Pack |
| CGA |
Column Grid Array |
| CGI |
Common Gateway Interface. |
| CGM |
Computer Graphics Metafile image format |
| CHF |
Critical Heat Flux |
| CHR |
Communication History Report |
| CHTML |
Compact Hypertext Markup Language |
| CID |
Charge-injection device |
| CIDf |
Content ID form |
| CIE |
Computer-Integrated Engineering |
| CIM |
Computer-Integrated Manufacturing |
| CIM-OSA |
Computer-Integrated Manufacturing-Open Systems Architecture (ESPRIT
program) |
| CIS |
Center for Integrated Systems |
| CISC |
Complex Instruction Set Computers. |
| CITIS |
Contractor Integrated Technical Information Services |
| CL |
CathodoLuminescence |
| CLCC |
Ceramic Leaded Chip Carrier |
| CLIC |
Closed-Loop Intensity Control |
| CLIW |
Customized Long Instruction Word |
| CLP |
Windows clipboard image format |
| CM |
Cassette Module |
| CM |
Configuration Management |
| CMC |
Cassette Module Controller |
| CMC |
Copper Molly Copper |
| CML |
Current Mode Logic |
| CMM |
Capability Maturity Model |
| CMOS |
Complimentary Metal Oxide Semiconductor. |
| CMP |
Chemical Mechanical Polishing |
| CMRR |
Common Mode Rejection Ratio. |
| CMS |
Content Management System |
| CMS |
Coordinate Measuring System |
| CMT |
Chip Mounting Technology |
| CMTS |
Cable Modem Termination System |
| CMUG |
Cost Modeling Users Group |
| CMX |
Corel clipart image format |
| CNC |
Computer Numerical Control |
| CNC |
Condensation Nucleus Counter |
| CNR |
Carrier to Noise Ratio (C/N) |
| CNS |
Central Nervous System |
| COB |
Chip-On-Board |
| COC |
Cost Of Consumables |
| COD |
Consumed Oxygen Demand |
| CODEC |
COder-DECoder |
| COE |
Center Of Excellence |
| COED |
Computer Optimized Experimental Design |
| COFDM |
Coded Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplex |
| COFI |
Codec Filter |
| COFISLIC |
Codec Filter and Subscriber Line Interface Circuit |
| COGS |
Cost Of Goods Sold |
| COL |
Characteristic Orange Luminescence |
| COM |
Component Object Model |
| COMSAT |
Communications sattelite corporation. |
| COO |
Cost Of Ownership |
| CORBA |
Common Object Request Broker Architecture |
| CORE |
Composite Object Reference |
| COSS |
Common Object Services Specification |
| COT |
Customer-Owned Tooling |
| COTS |
Commercial Off The Shelf |
| CP |
Capability Performance |
| CP |
Chip Place |
| CP |
Circularly Polarized |
| CPA |
Charged Particle Analysis |
| CPD |
Common Path Distortion |
| CPD |
Concurrent product development |
| CPD |
Contact Potential Differences |
| CPE |
Communications, Participation, and Education program |
| CPE |
Customer Premises Equipment |
| CPGA |
Ceramic Pin Grid Array |
| CPID |
Common Path Intermodulation Distortion |
| CPLD |
Complex Programmable Logic Devices. |
| CPRM |
Content Protection for Recoverable Media. |
| CPS |
Co-Planar Stripline |
| CPT |
Colour Picture Tube. |
| CPW |
Co-Planar Waveguide |
| CP/M |
Computer Program/Maintenance |
| CQFP |
Ceramic Quad Flat Pack |
| CQN |
Closed-Queuing Network |
| CR |
Cyclotron Resonance |
| CR |
Junction diode |
| CRADA |
Cooperative Research And Development Agreement |
| CRC |
Cyclic Redundancy check. |
| CRID |
Content Reference IDentifier |
| CRL |
Certificate Revocation List |
| CRM |
Consumer Relationship Management |
| CRM |
Cost/Resource Model |
| CRO |
Cathode Ray Oscilloscope. |
| CRT |
Cathode Ray Tube |
| CSA |
Canadian Standards Agency |
| CSA |
CIM Systems Architecture |
| CSE |
Control Systems Engineering Department |
| CSG |
Constructive Solids Geometry |
| CSIC |
Customer Specific Integrated Circuit |
| CSL |
Current-Steering Logic |
| CSMA/CD |
Carrier-Sense, Multiple-Access/Collision Detection |
| CSO |
Composite Second Order |
| CSP |
Chip Scale Package |
| CSPED |
Concurrent Semiconductor Production and Equipment Development |
| CSR |
Consumer Service Representative |
| CSS |
Cascading Style Sheets language |
| CST |
CIM Systems Technology |
| CSTR |
Continuous Stirred Tank Reactor |
| CSU |
Channel Service Unit |
| CSV |
Comma-Separated Variable |
| CT |
Computer Tomography. |
| CT |
Curve Tracing |
| CT |
Cycle Time |
| CT |
Total capacitance |
| CTB |
Composite Triple Beat |
| CTC |
Cluster Tool Controller; Counter Timer Circuit |
| CTE |
Coefficient of Thermal Expansion |
| CTEM |
Conventional Transmission Electron Microscopy |
| CTF |
Contrast Transfer Function |
| CTI |
Cycle Time Improvement |
| CTL |
Complementary Transistor Logic |
| CTMC |
Cluster Tool Modular Communications |
| CTV |
Colour Tele Vision. |
| CUB |
Central Utility Building |
| CUBES |
Capacity Utilization Bottleneck Efficiency System |
| CUI |
Common User Interface |
| CUSUM |
CUmulative Sum |
| CUT |
Dr Halo image format |
| CV |
Capacitance-to-Voltage |
| CV.C |
Chemical Vapor Cleaning |
| CVCM |
Collected Volatile Condensable Materials |
| CV.D |
Chemical Vapor Deposition |
| CV.S |
Cyclic Voltammetry Stripping |
| CW |
ClockWise |
| CW |
Continuous transmission |
| CW |
Continuous Wave |
| CWDM |
Coarse Wavelength Division Multiplexing |
| CY.M |
CYcle Model |
| C/N |
Carrier to Noise ratio |
| C3 |
Command, Control and Communicate |
| C4 |
Controlled Collapse Component Connection |
| Cd |
Cadmium |
| CD-ROM |
Compact Disc Read-Only Memory |
| CER-DIP |
CERamic Dual In-line Package |
| cm |
Centimeter |
| cmil |
Circular mil |
| CRT |
Cathode ray tube |
| CT |
Total capacitance |
| Cu |
Copper |
