Acronyms for Electronics
"A",
"B",
"C",
"D",
"E",
"F",
"G",
"H",
"I",
"J",
"K",
"L",
"M",
"N",
"O",
"P",
"Q",
"R",
"S",
"T",
"U",
"V",
"W",
"X",
"Y",
"Z"
'Ca' to 'Cg', 'Ch' to 'Cr', 'Cs' to 'Cz'
| C-HFET | - | Complementary Heterostructure Field Effect Transistor |
| CHI | - | Card Host Interface |
| ChR | - | Channel Reliability |
| CHS | - | Cylinders, Heads and Sectors [HDD] |
| CIAS | - | circuit inventory and analysis system |
| CIC | - | content indicator code |
| CIF | - | common intermediate format |
| CIFAX | - | ciphered facsimile |
| ciphony | - | ciphered telephony |
| CiR | - | circuit reliability |
| CISC | - | Complex Instruction Set Computer |
| CKE | - | Clock Enable |
| C/kT | - | carrier-to-receiver noise density |
| CLASS | - | custom local area signaling service |
| cm | - | centimeter |
| CMI | - | coded mark inversion |
| CMIP | - | Common Management Information Protocol |
| CMIS | - | common management information service |
| CML | - | Common Model Logic, Current Mode Logic |
| CMOS | - | Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor |
| CMRR | - | common-mode rejection ratio CMRR Defined |
| CNI | - | Communication Network Interface |
| CNR | - | carrier-to-noise ratio |
| CNR | - | Communication and Networking Riser CNR Description |
| CNS | - | complementary network service |
| C.O. | - | central office |
| COAM | - | customer owned and maintained equipment |
| coax | - | Coaxial [coaxial cable definition] |
| COB | - | Chip On Board [COB Vendors] |
| COBOL | - | common business oriented language |
| codec | - | coder-decoder [codec manufacturers] |
| COG | - | centralized ordering group |
| COM | - | Computer On Module [Small form factor SBC] |
| COMINT | - | communications intelligence |
| compandor | - | compressor-expander |
| COMPUSEC | - | computer security |
| COMSAT | - | Communications Satellite Corporation |
| COMSEC | - | communications security |
| CONEX | - | connectivity exchange |
| CONUS | - | Continental United States |
| COT | - | customer office terminal |
| COTS | - | Commercial Off-The-Shelf [COTS Definition] |
| CPAS | - | cellular priority access services |
| cPCI | - | Compact PCI |
| CPE | - | customer premises equipment |
| CPGA | - | Ceramic Pin Grid Array [PGA Graphic] |
| cpi | - | characters per inch |
| cpm | - | Compact Phone Module, Counts per Minute |
| CP/M | - | Control Program for Microcomputers |
| cps | - | characters per second |
| cps | - | cycles per second [deprecated] |
| CPSB | - | CompactPCI Packet Switching Backplane |
| CPU | - | central processing unit |
| CPU | - | communications processor unit |
| CQFP | - | Ceramic Quad Flatpack |
| CR | - | channel reliability |
| CR | - | circuit reliability |
| CRC | - | Cyclic Redundancy Check [CRC Definition] |
| CRI | - | Color Rendering Index |
| CRGEN | - | Clock Recovery Generator |
| CRITICOM | - | Critical Intelligence Communications |
| CRM | - | Critical Conduction Mode [PFC Converters] |
| CRO | - | Cathode-ray oscilloscope [CRT] |
| CROM | - | control read-only memory |
| CRT | - | Cathode Ray Tube [CRT definition] |
