Standard CMOS gates used in IC design are inverting for a variety of reasons, including lower area and delay compared to the non inverting versions. So, It would be inefficient to use an inverter when ...

Engineers choose CMOS/biCMOS logic to be “green” and reduce power consumption. CMOS and biCMOS only draw power on transitions, so those circuits run cool at slow speeds. So why is the board hot?

Area gains over CMOS, according to the company, are due high transistor conductivity leading to small transistors, and fewer transistors – most ZTL logic gates have only one – which reduces the need ...

Current-Mode Logic (CML) and low-power Complementary Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor (CMOS) technology continue to drive significant advances in digital circuit design, particularly in high-speed and ...

When a CMOS circuit is in an idle state there is still some static power dissipation–a result of leakage current through nominally off transistors. Both nMOS and pMOS transistors used in CMOS logic ...

CMOS is, and will continue to be, the work-horse process technology of the semi-conductor industry. But designers of large devices, of complex SoCs and of devices using multiple IP elements are ...

A new technical paper titled “Non-Traditional Design of Dynamic Logics using FDSOI for Ultra-Efficient Computing” was published by researchers at University of Stuttgart, UC Berkeley, Indian Institute ...

This Design Idea describes a new class of logic gates, which we have named resistor-FET-logic, aka “RFL.” How do we know it is new? While FET switches are common today, we have been unable to find a ...

Following the publication of Part 1, several members of the Design News community emailed me to say: “Never leave unused inputs unconnected, especially with CMOS!” Another reader emailed me to say: ...