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S  Sulfur  
SA  Surface area; Subresolution assist; Structured analysis  
SAA  Static automated analysis  
SAB  Sensor/actuator bus  
SACD  Super Audio CD  
SAD  Selected Area Diffraction  
SAE  Society of Automotive Engineers  
SAED  Selected Area Electron Diffraction  
SAG  Self Aligned Gate  
SAM  Scanning Auger Microscopy  
SAN  Storage Area Network  
SANS  Small Angle Neutron Scattering  
SAR  Successive Approximation Register; Synthetic Aperture Radar  
SARE  Segmentation And Reassembly Element   
SAS  Suspended Air Stripline  
SASER  Sound Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation
SAT  Spray acid tool  
SAVE  SAARC Audio Visual Exchange
SAW  Surface-Acoustic Wave  
SAX  Simple API for XML  
SAXS  Small Angle X-ray Scattering  
SB  Strong base ion exchange  
SBC  S Bus Circuit   
SBC-X  S Bus Circuit Extended  
SBD  Schottky Barrier Diode  
SBL  Scanned Beam Laminography  
SBT  Slender Body Theory  
SBU  Sequential build-up  
SC  Semi-Conducting; Short Circuit  
SCA  Surface charge analysis  
SCALPEL  Scattering with Angular Limitation in Projection Electron-beam Lithography  
SCART  European connector definition for TVs and VCRs  
SCBA  Self-contained breathing apparatus  
SCC  Strategic cell controller  
SCCOS  Secure Chip Card Operating System
SCCS  Source code control system  
SCE  Saturated calomel electrode  
SCF  Super critical fluid  
SCI  Surface charge imaging  
SCIC  Semiconductor integrated circuit  
SCK  Smart Commercial Kitchen
SCM  Scanning capacitance microscopy  
SCNT  Single Chip Network Termination   
SCOSTA  Smart Card Operating System for Transport Application
SCP  Single chip package  
SCR  Silicon controlled rectifier
SCS  Single Crystal Silicon  
SCSI  Small Computer Systems Interface
SCT  SciTex continuous tone image format  
SCTE  Society of Telecommunications Engineers  
SCU  Satellite Communication Unit
SC1  Standard Clean 1  
SC2  Standard Clean 2  
SD  Small dual in-line package; structured design; single density  
SDARS  Satellite Digital Audio Radio System
SDFL  Schottky-diode FET logic  
SDH  Synchronous Digital Hierarchy  
SDHT  Selectively Doped Heterojunction Transistor; SDH/SONET Transceiver  
SDI  Serial Data Interface
SDI  Serial Digital Interface
SDLC  Synchronous data link control  
SDLTS  Scanning Deep-Level Transient Spectroscopy  
SDM  Specific Device Model for SAB  
SDMI  Secure Digital Music Initiative  
SDR  Software Defined Radio  
SDRAM  Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory  
SDS  Smart distributed system  
SDSI  Synchronous data-link control  
SE  Spectroscopic ellipsometry; secondary electron; Seed End; Surface Element  
SE  Spreading Efficiency
SEAJ  Semiconductor Equipment Association of Japan  
SEC  Size exclusion chromatography; Solvent extract conductivity  
SECAM  Sequence Electronique Couleur Avec Memoire (Electronic Colour Sequence with Memory)
SECS  Semiconductor Equipment Communications Standard  
SEDOR  Spin Echo DOuble Resonance  
SEG  Selective epitaxial growth  
SEIM  Software engineering improvement method  
SEL  Surface Emitting Laser  
SEM  Scanning Electron Microscopy; Specific Equipment Model; Standard Electronic Module  
SEMI  Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International  
SEMISPIN  Semiconductor Software Process Improvement Network  
SEP  Software engineering process  
SEPG  Software Engineering Process Group  
SEQDB  Semiconductor Equipment Database  
SERA  Sequential Electrochemical Reduction Analysis  
SERDES  Serialization/Deserialization  
SES  Secondary Electron Spectroscopy  
SET  Single Electron Tunneling/TransPort  
SETEC  Semiconductor Equipment Technology Center  
SEXAFS  Surface Extended X-ray Absorption Fine Structure  
SF  Super Fluorescence  
SFB  Symmetry Breaking Force  
SFC  Supercritical fluid chromatography  
SFD  Stacking Fault Density  
SFDR  Spurious Free Dynamic Range  
SFG  Sum Frequency Generation  
SFM  Surface feet per minute  
SFTPS  Secure File Transfer Protocol  
SGML  Standard Generalized Markup Language  
SGMM  Semiconductor Generic Manufacturing Model  
SGMRS  Semiconductor Generic Manufacturing Requirements Specification  
SGRAM  Synchronous Graphics Random Access Memory  
SGV  Scalable Vector Graphics  
SHA  Secure Hash Algorithm  
SHAC  Simple Hands-free Add-on Circuit   
SHARC  Super Harvard Architecture Computer   
SHF  Super high frequency 
SHF  Super HyperFine (interaction)  
SHG  Second Harmonic Generation  
SI  Semi-Insulating; Service Information  
SIA  Semiconductor Industry Association  
SICAT  Siemens Concept Analog Telephone   
SICOFI  Signalling Codec Filter  
SIDP  Sputter ion depth profiling  
SIL  Systems Integration Lab
SIM  Subscriber Identity Module
SIMO  Single Input Multiple Output
SIMOX  Separation by implantation of oxygen  
SIMS  Secondary Ion Mass Spectroscopy  
SIO  Serial Input Output   
SIOA  Surface Induced Optical Anisotropy  
SIP  Silicon Intellectual Property
SIP  Single in-line package 
SIP  Session Initiation Protocol  
SIP   Single in-line package 
SIPO  Serial In Parallel output   
SIR  Surface Insulation Resistance  
SIRIJ  Semiconductor Industry Research Institute of Japan  
SISFET  Semiconductor-Insulator-Semiconductor FET  
SISO  Serial in serial out
SISO  Single Input Single Output
SIT  Static Induction Transistor, System Interface Test
SIV  Sensors in vacuum  
SL  Specification limit; Super lattice  
SLAC  Subscriber Line Audio processing interface   
SLAM  Scanning laser acoustic microscopy
SLC   Surface Laminar Circuit; Single Layer Cap  
SLEED  Spin-Polarized Low Energy Electron Diffraction
SLIC  Standard-function Linear Integrated Circuit; Subscriber Line Interface Circuit   
SLICOFI  Subscriber Line Interface Circuit and Signaling Codec Filter  
SLM  Spatial Light Modulator  
SLOC  Source lines of code  
SLPSS  Semiconductor Laser Pumped Solid State
SLSI  Super large scale integration  
SLV  Satellite Launch Vehicle
SM  Stress migration; Surface mount  
SMA  Shape Memory Alloy; Surface Mount Assembly; Sub-Miniature type A  
SMB  Single-mask bumping  
SMC  Surface-mounted components  
SMD  Surface Mount Devices  
SME  Subject matter expert; Software maintenance engineer  
SMEMA  Surface Mount Equipment Manufacturers Association  
SMG  Screen management guide  
SMID  Single Instruction Multiple Data  
SMIF  Standard mechanical interface  
SMIL  Synchronized Multi-media Integration Language  
SMOBC  Solder mask over bare copper  
SMPM  SECS message protocol machine  
SMPTE  Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers  
SMR  Semiconductor mask representation  
SMS  SECS message service; Short Messaging Service  
SMSC  Short Message Switching Center  
SMT  Surface Mount Technology
SMTA  Surface Mount Technology Association
SMTP  Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
SMTS  Strategic Material Transport System  
SNA  System Network Architechture
SNA  Scalar Network Analyzer  
SNMP  Simple Network Management Protocol
SNMS  Sputtered neutral mass spectroscopy  
SNOM  Scanning nearfield optical microscopy  
SNR  Signal-to-noise ratio 
SO  Small outline (package)  
SOAP  Simple Object Access Protocol  
SOC  System on (a) Chip  
SoC  System on Chip
SOD  Spin-On-Dielectric; Silicon On Diamond; Small Outline Diode; Source Over Drain  
SODIMM  Small Outline Dual-In-line Memory Module  
SOG  Spin-On Glass; Source Over Gate  
SOHO  Small Office Home Office
SOI  Silicon On Insulator; Second Order Intercept  
SOIC  Small Outline IC  
SOLT  Short Open Load Through  
SOM  Scanning Optical Microscopy 
SONET  Synchronous Optical NETwork  
SOP  Standard operating procedure; Small outline package  
SoPC  System on Programmable Chip
SOS  Silicon on sapphire  
SOT  Small Outline Transistor  
SOW  Statement Of Work  
SP  Simple Profile  
SP3T  Single Pole Triple Throw  
SPA-LEED  Spot Profile Analysis Low Energy Electron Diffraction  
SPC  Statistical process control; Surface Photoconductivity  
SPDE  Service Provider Delivery Environment  
SPDT  Single pole double throw 
SPEG  Solid Phase Epitaxy Growth  
SPGA  Staggered Pin Grid Array; System Programmable Gate Array  
SPI  Software Process Improvement; Serial-peripheral interface protocol  
SPICE  Simulation program with integrated circuit emphasis  
SPIDER-MEM  SPIDER-Manufacturing Equipment Monitor  
SPIN  Software Process Improvement Network  
SPLD  Simple Programmable Logic Device   
SPLICS  Special-Purpose Linear Integrated Circuits  
SPM  Scanning probe microscopy  
SPP  Single-phase printing  
SPR  Semiconductor process representation  
SPST  Single Pole, Single Throw
SPT  Shortest processing time  
SPTM  Self Printing Ticketing Machine
SPTS  Simple Program Transport Stream  
SPV  Surface Photovoltage Spectroscopy  
SPX  Sequential Packet Exchange
SQC  Statistical quality control  
SQL  Structured Query Language  
SQM  System Quality Manager  
SQPMM  Software Quality and Process Maturity Model  
SQUID  Super conducting QUantum Interference Device  
SR  Shift register  
SRAC  Supplier Relations Action Council  
SRAM  Static Random Access Memory
SRC  Semiconductor Research Corporation  
SRP  Spreading resistance probe  
SRPT  Shortest remaining processing time  
SRS  Software requirements specification  
SS  Single Sided; Small Signal  
SSA  Semiconductor Industry Association  
SSB  Single sideband 
SSC  Standard Speech Circuit   
SSE  Sum squared error  
SSEM  Stepper Specific Equipment Model  
SSFDC  Solid-State Floppy-Disk Card  
SSG  Small Signal Gain  
SSH  Secure SHell  
SSI  Small scale integration  
SSL  Secure Socket Layer
SSM  Strategic Sourcing Methodology  
SSMA  Sub-SMA  
SSOP  Shrink Small Outline Package  
SSPA  Solid State Power Amplifier  
SSQA  Standardized Supplier Quality Assessment  
SSR  Static Shift Register; Solid State Relay   
SSRAM  Synchronous (cache) Static Ramdom Access Memory  
SSW  Seismic Surface Wave
STAF  SDH Transceiver And Framer   
STALO  STAble Local Oscillator  
STAR  Simultaneous transmitted and reflected  
STB  Set Top Box
STD  Subscribers Trunk Dialling
STE  Special Test Equipment  
STEL  Short-term exposure limit  
STEM  Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy  
STEP  Standard for Exchange of Product Model Data  
STHM  Scanning Thermal Microscope  
STI  Shallow Trench Isolation  
STL  Schottky Transistor Logic  
STM  Scanning Tunneling Microscopy  
STP  Software Technology Park
STP  Standard Temperature and Pressure; System Test Plan; Shielded Twisted Pair  
SU  Subresolution attenuated  
SUT  System under test  
SUV  Small Unit Verification  
SVD  Singular value decomposition  
SVG  Scalable Vector Graphic  
SW  Short wave 
SWAT  Software Action Team  
SWEAT  Standard wafer-level electromigration accelerated test  
SWI  Static walkthrough/inspection  
SWIM  Semiconductor Workbench for Integrated Modeling  
SWP  Single Wafer Processing  
SWR  Semiconductor Wafer Representation
SWR  Standing Wave Ratio
SWV  Square Wave Voltammetry  
SXPS  Soft X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy  
S/A  Sensor/actuator  
S/D  Source/drain  
S/N  Serial number  
S/N  Signal to Noise Ratio  
S/PDIF  Sony/Philips Digital Interface  
Si  Silicon  
SiGe  Silicon Germanium  
SLIP  Single Line Internet Protocol   
S-MIME  Secure MIME  
Sn  Tin  
SportsML  Sports Mark-up Language  
sq cm  Square centimeter 
SYNC  Synchronous