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Solidstate
Asolidstatedeviceorcircuitisonethatreliesonsemiconductorsratherthan
mechanicalorvacuumtubecircuits.
HotswapApowersupplylinecontrollerwhichallowscircuitboardsorotherdevicesto
beremovedandreplacedwhilethesystemremainspoweredup.
USBItstandsforUniversalSerialBuswhichisastandardportthatenablesyouto
connectexternaldevicestocomputers.
ElectrostaticDischargeThepotentiallydamagingdischargeofmanythousandsofvolts
ofstoredstaticelectricitythatoccurswhenanelectronicdeviceistouchedbyacharged
body.
GainTheamountofamplificationaccomplishedbyanamplifiercircuit.
MIMO
AMultipleInput,MultipleOutput(MIMO)systemhasmultipleantennasandmultipleradios.It
takesadvantageofmultipatheffects,whereatransmittedsignalarrivesatthereceiverthrougha
numberofdifferentpaths.Eachpathcanhaveadifferenttimedelay,andtheresultisthat
multipleinstancesofasingletransmittedsymbolarriveatthereceiveratdifferenttimes.
Usuallymultipathisasourceofinterference,butMIMOsystemsusethefactthatdatawillarrive
atthereceiveratdifferenttimesthroughdifferentpathstoimprovethequalityofthedatalink.
Forexample,ratherthanrelyingonasingleantennapathtoreceiveanentiremessage,the
messagecanbepiecedtogetherbasedonfragmentsreceivedatthevariousantennas.Thiscanact
toeitherincreasethedatarateatagivenrange,orincreasesystemrangeforagivendatarate.
MIMOisusedintheimplementationofthe802.11nandthe802.11acstandardwhichisapplied
towirelessnetworks(wifi).An802.11nrunstwotypesofbroadbandsignalsonethatoutputs
2.4ghzandanotherthatoutputs5.0ghzandsendsouttwosignals.An802.11acacceptsinputs
andoutputsona2.4ghzand5.0ghzfrequencybutfiltersthroughasinglesignal.Itisalsofound
in3gand4gwirelessnetworks.Itisusedforprecodingsignalsbetweendevices.Whichiswhen
asignalissentfrommultipleantennastomultiplereceiversitamplifiestherateatwhichthe
codeisdecodedafterbeingreceived.

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