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Glossary entry

French term or phrase:

commandant passant

English translation:

turning [the transistors] on

    The asker opted for community grading. The question was closed on 2020-06-06 14:54:13 based on peer agreement (or, if there were too few peer comments, asker preference.)
Jun 2, 2020 21:36
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French term

passant

French to English Tech/Engineering Electronics / Elect Eng Dispositif de mémoire vive statique non-volatile et procédé de commande correspondant
Puis, à l’étape 502, la ligne de mot locale WLLOCAL est portée à un potentiel commandant passant les transistors de sélection MN3, par exemple au double de la tension de précharge PRCH de sensiblement 2V, afin de coupler le noeud commun NC au potentiel de précharge PRCH.

Ensuite, à l’étape 704, les transistors de sélection MN3 des points mémoires du mot mémoire sont commandés passants par une tension de ligne de mot local WLLOCAL à par exemple Vdd=3,3V.
Proposed translations (English)
4 +3 turning [the transistors] on
4 turn on
4 -1 wired
3 conducting(-ive) state

Discussion

chris collister Jun 3, 2020:
@ Lisa Standard dictionaries (including Termium) are often not a lot of use in technical contexts. To do anything useful, a transistor has to "pass" current. Most transistors these days are field effect transistors, and possess a "gate", "source" and "drain", so nothing to do with drainage! And of course, "sortie" is "output".
Lisa Rosengard Jun 3, 2020:
passant I found a meaning of 'passant' to be 'busy' or 'occupied' in my dictionary (Collins Robert French - English) so 'turned on' looks OK as an answer. I considered the sentence " Le transistor d'accès est alors passant pendant la programmation pour coupler la sortie avec le drain du transistor d'état." and I believe it means "The access transistor is then active during programming in order to accompany the exit with the drainage of the established transistor."
anissa sallemi (asker) Jun 3, 2020:
"commandant passant" here relates to the "transistor", where "passant" alone is supposed to be translated as "on", but here with "commandant passant" i can't figure out how to put it together..

For further clarification:

"Le transistor d’accès TA est alors passant pendant la programmation pour coupler la sortie Q avec le drain du transistor d’état TE."

Thank you
Lisa Rosengard Jun 3, 2020:
passant I ask if 'passer' means 'to wire', not just 'to pass or go by' when it's in an engineering description. With clarification I could help translate the description.

Proposed translations

+3
9 hrs
French term (edited): commandant passant
Selected

turning [the transistors] on

'passant' in the context of semiconductor devices means 'conductive' / 'conducting' — i.e. 'turned on'; but I think here it is best to consider the expression as a whole in order to begin to arrive at something that sounds natural in EN

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Note added at 9 hrs (2020-06-03 07:02:50 GMT)
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« ... est portée à un potentiel commandant passant les transistors de sélection ... »

"... is taken to a voltage that will turn on / turns on the selector transistors..."
Peer comment(s):
agree chris collister : or "raised to a potential that turns on..."
4 hrs
Thanks, Chris!
agree philgoddard : I'm sure you're right, but how would you translate "sont commandés passants"? // Oh, I see.
5 hrs
As I suggested above: "are turned on" — the 'commandés' is really covered by the way we express it in EN; if we wanted to just say 'passants', then we'd say 'are conducting'
agree EirTranslations
9 hrs
Thanks, Beatriz!
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-1
4 mins

wired

Peer comment(s):
disagree Tony M : Quite wrong in the specialist context here.
9 hrs
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18 hrs

conducting(-ive) state

Where 'potential' is mentioned, you might also consider:
"activating potential"

http://www.freepatentsonline.com/WO2020020631A1.html

Peer comment(s):
neutral Tony M : Yes, as I said in my suggestion above.
9 mins
neutral chris collister : Beware using anything like "activation potential", which means something quite different!
11 mins
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1 day 16 hrs

turn on

this is often a term that refers to a state of a transistor. when the barrier potential is overcome and the junction broken, the transistor starts experiencing voltage at the collector and emitter. At that moment, the transistor is said to be turned on.
Note from asker:
Here is how I actually translated it: "Then, in step 502, the local word line WLLOCAL is raised to a potential turning the selection transistors MN3 on"
Peer comment(s):
neutral Tony M : Yes, as I already said... but the key point here is for Asker to know how to fit it into their text.
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