When analog circuits mix with digital, the former are sometimes dissatisfied with the latter’s usual single supply rail. This creates a need for additional, often negative polarity, voltage sources ...

A new logic-level approach directly impacts board-level performance and complexity. By optimizing interconnects, fanouts and signal structures before schematic capture, a new gate-level synthesis ...

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 ...

Before we plunge headfirst into the fray with gusto and abandon (and aplomb, of course), let’s remind and reassure ourselves that—although the following discussions focus on the devices and ...

In the nanometer era, complex SoCs have higher risk of re-spins. Undoubtedly FPGA prototyping is the right way of pre-silicon SoC validation, accelerate system software development and to meet time-to ...

Over time many of us accumulate a stock of components, including logic IC's (TTL and CMOS). If you're anything like me, many of these will be secondhand - salvaged from old projects and PCBs. The ...

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 ...

Logic resizing (transistor resizing): Upsizing improves slew times, reducing dynamic current. Downsizing reduces leakage current. To be effective, sizing operations must include accurate switching ...