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B	billion; boron
Ba	barium
BARC	bottom antireflective coating
BASE	Boston Area Semiconductor Education (Council)
BAW	bulk acoustic wave
BC	bias contrast
BDEV	behavior-level deviation
BDS	Brownian Dynamics Simulation
Be	beryllium
BEOL	back end of line
BESOI	bonded and etchback silicon on insulator
BF	brightfield
BFGS	Broyden-Fletcher- Goldfarb-Shanno optimization algorithm
BFL	buffered field-effect transistor logic
BGA	ball grid array
BHT	Brinell hardness test
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
BMC	bubble memory controller
BMD	bulk micro defect
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 reengineering
BPSG	boron phosphosilicate glass
BPTEOS	BPSG from a TEOS source
Br	bromine
BSE	backscattered electron detection
BTAB	bumped tape automated bonding
BV	breakdown voltage
RBB	base sheet resistance