Semiconductor Engineering

The History Of CMOS

Since CMOS has been around for about 50 years, a comprehensive history would be a book. This blog focuses on what I consider the major transitions. Before CMOS, there was NMOS (also PMOS, but I have ...
Design-Reuse

Low Power Universal Gates for Approximate Computing

Density and speed of IC’s have increased exponentially for several decades, following a trend described by Moore’s Law. While it is accepted that this exponential improvement trend will end, it is ...
EDN

Detect wire breaks with unusual CMOS gate circuit

CMOS devices have large input impedance with input currents on the order of 0.01nA. Adding feedback circuitry can result in a latch-like device that can be used to store bits, and also operate in a ...
Semiconductor Engineering

CAM-Based CMOS Implementation Of Reference Frames For Neuromorphic Processors (Carnegie Mellon U.)

“Neuromorphic architectures mimicking biological neural networks have been proposed as a much more efficient alternative to conventional von Neumann architectures for the exploding compute demands of ...
EDN

First CMOS 3G power amp heads for Mobile World Congress

HASBROUCK HEIGHTS, N.J. — The founding engineers of Javelin Semiconductor have developed the first working CMOS implementation of a 3G power amplifier (PA), pulling ahead in a small field of ...
Hackaday

Decapsulating A PIC12F683 To Examine Its CMOS Implementation

In a recent video, [Andrew Zonenberg] takes us through the process of decapsulating a PIC12F683 to take a peek at its CMOS implementation. This is a multipart series with five parts done and more to ...