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thm_w:

--- Quote from: PlainName on December 03, 2023, 11:56:26 am ---
--- Quote ---Datasheets generally appropriately use acronyms and initialisms if they are from a reputable company
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Off-hand I can't recall a reputable datasheet using initialisms. Can you think of an example to illustrate? I may have led a sheltered life, but initialisms just don't strike me as something proper sources would use.

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Open a charger or DC/DC datasheet you'll probably see 10 or 20 of them: PWM, MPPT, OCP, VDD, LED, DCM, etc.
PlainName:
Duh! You are quite right - they are everywhere and my eye just coasts straight over them  :palm:
VK3DRB:

--- Quote from: thm_w on December 04, 2023, 09:49:04 pm ---
--- Quote from: PlainName on December 03, 2023, 11:56:26 am ---
--- Quote ---Datasheets generally appropriately use acronyms and initialisms if they are from a reputable company
--- End quote ---

Off-hand I can't recall a reputable datasheet using initialisms. Can you think of an example to illustrate? I may have led a sheltered life, but initialisms just don't strike me as something proper sources would use.

--- End quote ---

Open a charger or DC/DC datasheet you'll probably see 10 or 20 of them: PWM, MPPT, OCP, VDD, LED, DCM, etc.

--- End quote ---

and SCL, SDA, I2C, EIAJ, TCP/IP, SPI, I2S. they are all initialisms. UART, USART, FIFO are acronyms. EEVBLOG is a hybrid of an initialism and plain text. Its academic, but we all know what we mean. One thing I do frown on is when an engineer or technician who might say "50 Hertz" also says something like "It is one Hert off". I have heard this a few times over the decades. I don't want to hurt Mr. Hert too much, so usually I just gently tell him he is first class submoron :palm:
CatalinaWOW:

--- Quote from: VK3DRB on December 05, 2023, 10:47:13 am ---
--- Quote from: thm_w on December 04, 2023, 09:49:04 pm ---
--- Quote from: PlainName on December 03, 2023, 11:56:26 am ---
--- Quote ---Datasheets generally appropriately use acronyms and initialisms if they are from a reputable company
--- End quote ---

Off-hand I can't recall a reputable datasheet using initialisms. Can you think of an example to illustrate? I may have led a sheltered life, but initialisms just don't strike me as something proper sources would use.

--- End quote ---

Open a charger or DC/DC datasheet you'll probably see 10 or 20 of them: PWM, MPPT, OCP, VDD, LED, DCM, etc.

--- End quote ---

and SCL, SDA, I2C, EIAJ, TCP/IP, SPI, I2S. they are all initialisms. UART, USART, FIFO are acronyms. EEVBLOG is a hybrid of an initialism and plain text. Its academic, but we all know what we mean. One thing I do frown on is when an engineer or technician who might say "50 Hertz" also says something like "It is one Hert off". I have heard this a few times over the decades. I don't want to hurt Mr. Hert too much, so usually I just gently tell him he is first class submoron :palm:

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And he might return in kind because the usage was intentional punnage.  Last word chosen to annoy language purists.
TimFox:
Here is the list of accepted abbreviations (mostly initialisms) allowed for publication in American Institute of Physics (AIP) scientific journals without further definition:
https://www.carleton.edu/physics-astronomy/major/integrative-exercise/comps/style-manual/appedix-d/
Otherwise, in scientific publications, the abbreviation should be spelled out on first introduction.
This made for interesting titles when 7,7,8,8 tetrathiafulvalene-tetracyanoquinodimethane (TTF-TCNQ) was a very active research topic in the 1970s.
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