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B
billion: boron
Ba
barium
BACT
best available control technology
BASE
Boston Area Semiconductor Ekucation (Council)
BAW
bulk acoustic wave
BC
bias contrast
BCAD
business computer-aided manufacturing
BCD
binary coded decimal
BDEV
behavior-level deviation
BDS
Brownian Dynamics Simulation
Be
beryllium
BENU
bull's eye nonuniformity
BEOL
back-end of line
BESOI
bonded and etchback SOI
BF
Brightfield
BFGS
Broyden-Fletcher-Goldfarb-Shanno optimization algorithm
BFL
buffered field-effect-transistor logic
BGA
ball grid array
BHT
Brinell hardness test
BI
burn in
Bi
bismuth
BiCMOS
bipolar complementary metal-oxide semiconductor
BIFET
bipolar field-effect transistor
BIM
binary intensity mask
BiMOS
bipolar metal-oxide semiconductor
BIST
built-in self test
BIT
bulk ion temperature
BITE
built-in test equipment
Bk
berkelium
BLD
beam lead device
BLEVE
boiling liquid expanding vapor explosion
BMC
bubble memory controller
BOE
buffered oxide etchant
BOR
bottom of range
BOSS
Book of SEMI Standards; binary object storage system
BOX
buried oxide
BPR
beam profile reflectometry; business process re-engineering
BPSG
boro phosphosilicate
BPTEOS
borophosphosilicate glass from a TEOSÔ source (TEOS is a trademark of NALCO Chemical Company.)
Br
bromine
BSE
backscattered electron detection
BTAB
bumped tape automated bonding
BV
breakdown voltage