English for Specific Purposes

Electronic Engineering 11

 

 

2. Solder paste is used to connect the leads of integrated chip packages to attachment points in the circuit patterns on a printed circuit board.

 

3. These transistor power switches conduct alternately to connect a DC source with an output transformer.

 

4. A new lithography technique may result in a size decrease for the integrated circuit.

 

5. Electronic and microelectronic components are packaged in circuits.

 

6. Electron flow is what we think of as electrical current.

 

7. Semiconductor cost has been reduced greatly over the past three decades.

 

8. Laser diodes form a subset of the larger classification of semiconductor p-n junction diodes.

 

GRAMMAR FOCUS: Tense review

 

8. Put the verb in brackets in the right form. If you need help, use GRAMMAR FILE 1 (p. 109).

 

1. The distinction between electronics and electrical science (start) _________ at the beginning of the XXth century with the invention of the triode.

 

2. Electronics (deal) _________ with electronic devices and components manufacturing.

 

3. Recently we (witness) _________ the rapid growth of electronic appliances production.

 

4. Scientists (call) _________ this field “radiotechnology” due to implementation peculiarities before they (widen) _________ the scope of electronic components application.

 

5. As techniques (improve) _________, the scale of microelectronic components (decrease) _________.

 

6. These days Intel and Micron (sample) _________ their first NAND flash memory on 25-nanometer process technology.

 

7. I wonder how many units they (sell) _________ if they (have) _________ enough for anyone who wanted one.

 

8. Today the engineers (achieve) _________ striking results in CMOS productivity because they (work)

 

_________ hard on the ICs miniaturization.

 

9. Any circuit (pass) _________ signals.

 

10. By the mid 20th century, people (achieve) _________ a mastery of technology.

 

11. The process of manufacturing an integrated circuit (make) _________ more sense if one first (understand) _________ some of the IC basics.

 

12. Changes in technology since the device's invention (be) _________ rapid, but evolutionary.

 

13. The laboratory still (work) _________ on growing the crystals.

 

14. The first integrated circuits (contain) _________ only up to a dozen components.