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 ...
As an example, let’s consider the AND gate (the others are OR, NOT, NAND, NOR, XOR and XNOR). Electronic gates operate on two nominal voltages, normally 0 V and 5 V, representing the logic 0 ...
Low-Voltage CMOS logic. Single gate package. Operating Voltage: 1.65 to 5.5 V. Compatibility: Input LVTTL/TTL, Output LVCMOS. Latch-up performance exceeds 100 mA per ...
XOR gates (exclusive-OR) behave like the logical operator “either / or ... Common logic families include standard, fast, high-speed and advanced CMOS; emitter coupled logic (ECL); TTL and Fairchild ...
nMOS transistors conduct current when the gate voltage is high, while pMOS transistors conduct current when the gate voltage is low. This complementary behavior is exploited in CMOS circuit design to ...
Naturally, CMOS always ought to provide INVERTED outputs like Inverter, NAND, NOR etc. Sometimes a non-inverting function is required, in which case it's just as easy to implement it with a final ...
In 1963, Frank Wanlass and C.T.Sah of Fairchild unveiled the first logic gate in which n-channel and p-channel transistors were used in a complementary symmetric circuit configuration. This is what is ...
A battery that maintains the time, date, hard disk and other configuration settings in the CMOS memory. CMOS batteries are small and are attached directly to the motherboard. See BIOS setup and ...
‘NOT’ gate symbol - if input A is ‘high’ then output Q will be ‘low’ and if input A is ‘low’ then output Q will be ‘high’ These three can then be used to make others: ‘NAND ...