Nowadays CMOS Small Scale Integration (SSI) logic families, I.E. the gates used in external logic, offer very fast speeds and high current drive capability as well as supporting the low voltages ...

First let’s look at the use of CMOS gates as memory devices. Figure 1 shows a one-bit transparent latch. A single CD4069 hex inverter can make a 3-bit latch, or if one uses a CD4050 hex buffer one can ...

while pMOS transistors conduct current when the gate voltage is low. This complementary behavior is exploited in CMOS circuit design to create a system where only one type of transistor is on and ...

from the study of the broader field of spintronics it has been known already that circuits built using majority gates could be much smaller (require much less transistors) than conventional CMOS ...

The CD4011 CMOS NANDgate has a typical input current of10 pA at room temperature. You cancharge a capacitor connected to thegate input with currents on the order ofhundreds of picoamperes and ...

A layout-dependent circuit-design model from Toshiba helps boost gate density and improve cost-performance in next-generation 45-nm CMOS technology. More specifically, 45-nm CMOS gate density can ...

Using CMOS Gates to create crystal oscillators is cost-effective and gives the designer more control over the parameters. To view the application note, click on the URL below. Circuit selected for ...

For example, only two transistors are needed for both the OR and AND gates, whereas a total of six transistors are needed in the corresponding conventional CMOS circuit 27,28. This savings in the ...

This blog focuses on what I consider the major transitions. Before CMOS, there was NMOS (also PMOS, but I have no direct experience with that). An NMOS gate consisted of a network of N-transistors ...