User contributions for Philip
23 April 2024
- 14:5014:50, 23 April 2024 diff hist +248 N Glossary:Circular economy Created page with "A circular economy is one where a minimum of items or their parts are sent for landfill or incineration, and a high proportion are either reused, repaired or recycled, so minimising the consumption of raw materials and the pre-use carbon footprint." current
- 14:4514:45, 23 April 2024 diff hist +201 N Glossary:Repair Created page with "Repair is the second option (after reuse) in a circular economy. It has been shown that many devices sent for recycling could actually be repaired relatively easily and hence given a new lease of life." current
- 14:4214:42, 23 April 2024 diff hist +225 N Glossary:Reuse Created page with "Reuse is the preferred option in a circular economy. Many items are discarded because they have been replaced by a newer model, or simply fallen into disuse, but could be given a second life if sold or donated to a new owner." current
- 14:3614:36, 23 April 2024 diff hist +166 N Glossary:E-Waste Created page with "e-Waste is all those electrical and electronic goods discarded by their owner, whether because they are faulty, no longer needed, or simply replaced by a newer model." current
20 April 2024
- 20:5520:55, 20 April 2024 diff hist +779 Glossary →Glossary of Terms
- 20:1420:14, 20 April 2024 diff hist +447 N Glossary:Gallium Created page with "Gallium is a soft metal similar to aluminium but with a low melting point. In electronics, many compounds of gallium are semiconductors with useful properties. Gallium arsenide devices are able to operate at much higher frequencies than their silicon counterparts and so are widely used in mobile phones and satellite comunications. Various other gallium compounds are used in practically all visible and infra-red LEDs." current
- 19:4819:48, 20 April 2024 diff hist +440 N Glossary:Silicon Carbide Created page with "Silicon carbide (as carborundum) has long been used as an abrasive, but it is also a semiconductor with useful properties for high power applications. In recent years silicon carbide devices such as MOSFETs having higher voltage and power ratings than equivalent silicon devices have been increasingly used in applications such as EVs and power conversion."
- 19:2819:28, 20 April 2024 diff hist +9 Glossary:COM port No edit summary current
- 19:2719:27, 20 April 2024 diff hist 0 m Glossary:D-subminiature Philip moved page Glossary:D-sub to Glossary:D-subminiature without leaving a redirect current
- 19:2619:26, 20 April 2024 diff hist +9 Glossary:RS-232 No edit summary current
- 17:1517:15, 20 April 2024 diff hist +237 N Glossary:Duplex Created page with "A duplex comunication channel is one that supports communication in both directions. A half-duplex channel only allows communication in one direction at a time whereas full duplex allows for simultaneous communication in both directions." current
- 17:1317:13, 20 April 2024 diff hist 0 Glossary:Simplex No edit summary current
- 17:1217:12, 20 April 2024 diff hist +181 N Glossary:Simplex Created page with "A simplex comminication channel is one that allows for commuication in one direction only, in conttrat to a duplex connection which supports 2-way communication."
- 17:0817:08, 20 April 2024 diff hist −4 Glossary:RS-232 No edit summary
- 17:0617:06, 20 April 2024 diff hist +390 N Glossary:COM port Created page with "A COM port is a serial interface port using a DB-9 connector, offered by virtally all home and personal computers before the advent of USB. Modern computers often still offer simulated COM ports over USB connections for interfacing to simple devices requiring only to be able to exchange a stream of bytes."
- 17:0017:00, 20 April 2024 diff hist +438 N Glossary:D-subminiature Created page with "D-subminiature connectors are a series of electrical connectors characterised by their D-shaped shell. Whilst there are numerous variants, just a few are or have been in common use. DB-9 (more correctly DE-9) and DB-25 were ubiqitus on home and personal computers as the serial (COM) and paralel ports before being displaced by USB, and DE-15 is still used for VGA video connectors."
- 16:3716:37, 20 April 2024 diff hist +42 Glossary:RS-232 No edit summary
- 16:3516:35, 20 April 2024 diff hist +393 N Glossary:DTE, DCE Created page with "DTE or Data Terminal Equipment and DCE or Data Communications Equipment are the names given to the two ends of an RS-232 data connection. These were originally assumed to be a computer or computer terminal and a modem respectively but the DCE is now more commonly a computer and the DTE a device or computer controlling it through a command line interface." current
- 16:2416:24, 20 April 2024 diff hist +611 N Glossary:RS-232 Created page with "RS-232 is an old standard originally conceived for communication between a modem and a computer or computer terminal, normally using DB-9 or DB-25 connectors. It was embodied in the COM ports that were once a feature of virtually all personal and home computers. Although now superseded by USB, due to its great simplicity and former ubiquity it is still used where low speed communication is r..."
- 09:1209:12, 20 April 2024 diff hist +98 Glossary →Glossary of Terms