| C | |||
| C | Carbon; Capacitance/Capacitor | ||
| c | Speed of light in vacuum | ||
| C-band | 4-6 GHz (3.7-4.2 downlink, 5.925-6.425 uplink) | ||
| C/N | Carrier to Noise ratio | ||
| C3 | Command, Control and Communicate | ||
| C4 | Controlled Collapse Component Connection | ||
| Ca | Calcium | ||
| CA | CIM Architecture | ||
| CAA | CIM Applications Architecture | ||
| CAB | Competitive Analysis Benchmarking | ||
| CAD | Computer-Aided Design | ||
| CADT | Control Application Development tool | ||
| CAE | Computer-Aided Engineering | ||
| CAF | Controlled Ambient Facility; Cathotic Annodic Filaments | ||
| CAFM | Computer Aided Facilities Management | ||
| CAG | Competitive Analysis Group | ||
| CAGE | Commercial And Government Entity | ||
| CAI | Computer-Assisted Instruction | ||
| CAIBE | Chemically-Assisted Ion Beam Etching | ||
| CALS | Computer-Aided Logistics Support (Air Force Program) | ||
| CAM | Computer-Aided Manufacturing; Content Addressable Memory | ||
| CAPP | Computer Aided Process Planning | ||
| CAPS | Computer-Assisted Problem Solving | ||
| CAR | Computer-Aided Research; Computer-Aided Repair | ||
| CARRI | Computerized Assessment of Relative Risk Impacts | ||
| CASE | Computer-Aided Software Engineering; Computer-Aided Systems Engineering | ||
| CAT | Computer-Aided Testing; Conditional Access Table | ||
| CATV | Cable TV; Community Access TeleVision | ||
| CAW | Construction Analysis Workgroup | ||
| CAWC | Cryogenic Aerosol Wafer Cleaning | ||
| CB | Carbon Black; Conduction Band; Common Base configuration | ||
| CBA | Cell-Based Architecture | ||
| CBCPW | Conductor Backed CoPlanar Waveguide | ||
| CBD | Convergent Beam Diffraction | ||
| CBE | Chemical Beam Epitaxy, aka MOMBE | ||
| CBED | Convergent Beam Electron Diffraction | ||
| CBGA | Ceramic Ball Grid Array | ||
| CBM | Conduction Band Minimum | ||
| CBS | Chemical Bottle Storage Area | ||
| CBT | Computer-Based Training | ||
| CC | Chip Carrier; Cluster Controller; Common Collector; Composite Capabilities | ||
| CCA | Circuit Card Assembly | ||
| CCAPS | Circuit Assembly and Processing System | ||
| CCC | Ceramic Chip Carrier | ||
| CCD | Charge Coupled Device; Configuration Coordinate Diagram | ||
| CCSA | China Communications Standards Association | ||
| CCSL | Compatible Current-Sinking Logic | ||
| CCW | Counter ClockWise | ||
| Cd | Cadmium | ||
| CD | Critical Dimension; Compact Disc | ||
| CDA | Copper Development Association; Clean Dry Air | ||
| CDB | Cell Delineation Block device | ||
| CDE | Chemical Downstream Etch | ||
| CDEM | Customer Delivery Enterprise Model | ||
| CDI | Collector-Diffusion Isolation | ||
| CDM | Common Device Model for SAB | ||
| CDMA | Code Division Multiple Access (handsets) | ||
| CDO | Controlled Decomposition/Oxidation | ||
| CD/OL | Critical Dimension Overlay | ||
| CDPD | Cellular Digital Packet Data | ||
| CDR | Chemical Distribution Room; Compact Disc Rewriteable/Recordable; CorelDraw image format; Clock and Data Recovery | ||
| CD-ROM | Compact Disc Read-Only Memory | ||
| Ce | Cerium | ||
| CE | Capillary Electrophoresis; Common Emitter | ||
| CEA | Constant Efficiency Amplifier; Consumer Electronics Association | ||
| CEC | Cell Evaluation Chip | ||
| CEE | Control Execution Environment | ||
| CEF | Crystal Electric Field | ||
| CEM | Continuous Emissions Monitoring | ||
| CEN | Comité Européen de Normalisation; European Committee for Standardization | ||
| centi | 1.00E-2 (1/100; symbolized by the prefix c) | ||
| CEPT | COMETS Equipment Performance Tracking | ||
| CER-DIP | CERamic Dual In-line Package | ||
| CF | Calibration Factor | ||
| Cf | Californium | ||
| CFA | Component Failure Analysis; Cross-Field Amplifier | ||
| CFC | ChloroFluoroCarbon | ||
| CFD | Computational Fluid Dynamics | ||
| CFI | CAD Framework Initiative; Common Flash-memory Interface | ||
| CFM | Contamination-Free Manufacturing; Continuous Flow Manufacturing; Cubic Foot per Minute | ||
| CFMRC | Contamination-Free Manufacturing Research Center | ||
| CFP | Ceramic Flat Pack | ||
| CGA | Compressed Gas Association; Column Grid Array | ||
| CGBA | Ceramic Ball Grid Array | ||
| CGM | Computer Graphics Metafile image format | ||
| CHF | Critical Heat Flux | ||
| CHR | Communication History Report | ||
| CHTML | Compact Hypertext Markup Language | ||
| CI | Confidence Interval | ||
| CIC | Cleanroom Interface Chamber | ||
| 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) | ||
| CIP | Continuous Improvement Program | ||
| CIS | Center for Integrated Systems; Copper Indium Selenide | ||
| CISC | Complex Instruction Set Computer | ||
| CITIS | Contractor Integrated Technical Information Services | ||
| Cl | Chlorine | ||
| CL | CathodoLuminescence | ||
| CLC | Cancel Lot Cycle | ||
| CLCC | Ceramic Leaded Chip Carrier | ||
| CLIC | Closed-Loop Intensity Control | ||
| CLIW | Customized Long Instruction Word | ||
| CLP | Windows clipboard image format | ||
| Cm | Curium | ||
| CM | Configuration Management; Cassette Module | ||
| CMA | Cylindrical Mirror Analyzer | ||
| CMC | Cassette Module Controller; Copper Molly Copper | ||
| cmil | Circular mil | ||
| CML | Current Mode Logic | ||
| CMM | Capability Maturity Model | ||
| CMOS | Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor | ||
| CMP | Chemical Mechanical Polishing | ||
| CMR | Common-Mode Rejection ratio; Cancel Move Request | ||
| CMS | Coordinate Measuring System; Content Management System | ||
| CMT | Cadmium Mercury Telluride; Chip Mounting Technology | ||
| CMTS | Cable Modem Termination System | ||
| CMUG | Cost Modeling Users Group | ||
| CMX | Corel clipart image format | ||
| CNC | Computer Numerical Control; Condensation Nucleus Counter | ||
| CNDO | Complete Neglect of Differential Overlap | ||
| CNR | Carrier to Noise Ratio (aka C/N) | ||
| CNS | Central Nervous System | ||
| Co | Cobalt | ||
| COB | Chip-On-Board | ||
| COC | Cost Of Consumables | ||
| COD | Consumed Oxygen Demand | ||
| CODEC | COder-DECoder | ||
| COE | Center Of Excellence | ||
| COFDM | Coded Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplex | ||
| COFF | Universal format for binary files (not standard) | ||
| COFI | Codec Filter | ||
| COFISLIC | Codec Filter and Subscriber Line Interface Circuit | ||
| COGS | Cost Of Goods Sold | ||
| COED | Computer Optimized Experimental Design | ||
| COL | Characteristic Orange Luminescence | ||
| COM | Component Object Model | ||
| COO | Chief Operating Officer; Cost Of Ownership | ||
| COOL | Cost Of Ownership Luminator (Wright, Williams, & Kelly) | ||
| 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 | Process capability; Chip Place; Capability Performance; Circularly Polarized | ||
| CP/M | Computer Program/Maintenance | ||
| CPA | Charged Particle Analysis | ||
| CPD | Contact Potential Differences; Concurrent product development; Common Path Distortion | ||
| CPE | Communications, Participation, and Education program; Customer Premises Equipment | ||
| CPGA | Ceramic Pin Grid Array | ||
| CPID | Common Path Intermodulation Distortion | ||
| CPK | Process capability index | ||
| CPL | Capability Performance, Lower | ||
| CPLD | Complex Programmable Logic Device | ||
| CPS | Co-Planar Stripline | ||
| CPU | Central Processing Unit; Capability Performance, Upper | ||
| CPW | Co-Planar Waveguide | ||
| CQFP | Ceramic Quad Flat Pack | ||
| CQN | Closed-Queuing Network | ||
| Cr | Chromium | ||
| CR | Cyclotron Resonance | ||
| CRADA | Cooperative Research And Development Agreement | ||
| CRC | Cyclic Redundancy Check | ||
| CRID | Content Reference IDentifier | ||
| CRL | Certificate Revocation List | ||
| CRM | Cost/Resource Model; Consumer Relationship Management | ||
| CRO | Cathode Ray Oscilloscope | ||
| CRT | Cathode Ray Tube | ||
| Cs | Cesium | ||
| CSA | CIM Systems Architecture; Canadian Standards Agency; Conceil Supérieur de l'Audiovisuel | ||
| CSE | Control Systems Engineering Department | ||
| CSF | Critical Success Factor | ||
| 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 | Cycle Time; Curve Tracing | ||
| 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 | ||
| Cu | Copper | ||
| 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; Curriculum Vitae | ||
| CVC | Chemical Vapor Cleaning | ||
| CVCM | Collected Volatile Condensable Materials | ||
| CVD | Chemical Vapor Deposition | ||
| CVS | Cyclic Voltammetry Stripping | ||
| CW | Continuous Wave; ClockWise | ||
| CWDM | Coarse Wavelength Division Multiplexing | ||
| CYM | CYcle Model | ||
| CZ | CZochralski Process | ||
| CZT | Cadmium Zinc Telluride | ||
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