Electronic Design

It’s Hot, Powering, And Burning CMOS Logic Circuits

Fig 1. A typical CMOS input circuit comprises a “P” and “N” transistor. One is fully “on” for logic high, and the other is “on” for a logic low. Fig 2. When a CMOS input pin is at logic high or low ...
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Logic Circuit Design Based on Series-Connected CMOS-NDR Circuit

In this paper, the authors propose a MOS-BJT-NDR circuit, which can show the Negative-Differential-Resistance (NDR) characteristic in its current-voltage curve. This NDR circuit is composed of ...
Electronics For You

KTechLab: Open-Source EDA For Circuit Design

Experience real-time co-simulation of circuits and PIC firmware in a single unified workspace—KTechLab’s capability that lets ...
EE Herald

Advanced VLSI design: Use of qubits in logic circuit design

One of the most promising nanotechnologies which can replace the present transistor based CMOS technology is the Qubit (Quantum-Dot) Cellular Automata. The major advantages of this technology are ...
EDN

Six ways to improve speed of digital logic in IC design

When designing a chip, a designer needs to consider many tradeoffs before developing the logic. For example, if a chip is being developed for mobile applications, power becomes a very important factor ...
EDN

Build a low-cost logic design trainer

When I was an engineering student, I was fascinated about such subjects as Analog electronics, Logic Design, Microcontrollers etc.I loved the time I spent in my college laboratories, but unfortunately ...
Electronic Design

For Designers: Logic Nets in Transistor Cans (ED article from 1961)

March 29, 1961 - LOGICAL microcircuits in transistor cans are now being offered by four major companies. Heavy research and production is being pressed by Fairchild Semiconductor Corp., Raytheon Co., ...