Microcontrollers
On a microcontroller, this type of programmable pin can be configured to either read or send digital signals.
What is a GPIO pin?
This phase of the Moon occurs when it is fully illuminated as seen from Earth.
What is a full moon?
Relating to probability, this number represents an event that will occur with absolute certainty.
What is 1?
This statement is used to make decisions between two possible paths in code.
What is an if statement?
After brainstorming possible solutions, engineers typically create this early version of a product to test their ideas.
What is a prototype?
This mechanism, when activated, temporarily halts the main program in order to process a high-priority task.
What is an interrupt?
This layer of Earth lies directly beneath the crust and is responsible for plate tectonics.
What is the mantle?
In probability theory, this term describes the event that occurs if at least one of two events happens.
What is the union?
This keyword is commonly used to define a reusable block of code.
What is a function?
In the engineering design process, this initial step establishes the need or challenge that a solution must address.
What is defining the problem?
When a button is not pressed, this component keeps a microcontroller input reading as high instead of floating.
What is a pull-up resistor?
Earth’s seasons are primarily caused by this feature of the planet, not its distance from the Sun.
What is Earth's axial tilt?
After flipping five heads in a row with a fair coin, this is still the probability of heads on the next flip.
What is 1/2?
In languages like C, a string is implemented as an array of this data type.
What is a char?
Engineers often list budget, materials, safety requirements, and time limits in this category of design limitations.
What are constraints?
In signal processing, this quantity measures how many oscillations occur per second.
What is frequency?
This part of Earth’s atmosphere absorbs most of the Sun’s harmful ultraviolet radiation.
What is the ozone layer?
As the number of fair coin flips increases, the distribution of total heads becomes symmetric and concentrated around the average, following this common statistical pattern.
What is a bell curve?
In Big-O notation, this term describes an algorithm whose runtime grows linearly with the size of its input.
What is O(n)?
After a design works, engineers often adjust it to make it better, faster, or more efficient in this improvement step.
What is optimization?
This company is the world's largest provider of processor IP (Intellectual Property) licenses, and holds 99% of the shares in the smartphone chip market.
What is ARM?
The farther a galaxy is from Earth, the faster it appears to be moving away — evidence for this phenomenon.
What is the expansion of the universe?
In a continuous probability distribution, the probability of observing any single exact value is this.
What is 0?
In Python, this keyword allows a program to use functions defined in another file or module.
What is import?
Gathering input from users, clients, or communities before finalizing a design helps ensure alignment with these affected groups.
What are stakeholders?