EDN

Sub-picofarad measurement with CMOS inverters

The inverters in a CMOS CD4069 can be used for both analog as well as digital applications. This Design Idea illustrates this by using all six inverters in a 4069 package to make a closed loop, ...
EDN

CMOS hex inverter generates low-distortion sine waves

This Design Idea provides a simple, inexpensive, portable circuit as an alternative to a microcontroller to provide a wide-range source of low-distortion sine waves for audio-circuit design and ...
Electronic Design

40.680-MHz FSK RF Transmitter Uses Two CMOS Inverters

Single-chip transmitters proposed by some IC manufacturers have good electrical performance, but they're often plagued by some drawbacks. For instance, they're hard to find in small quantities. Also, ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Fully CMOS-compatible Ternary Inverter with a Memory Function Using Silicon Feedback Field-Effect Transistors (FBFETs)

New technical paper titled “New ternary inverter with memory function using silicon feedback field-effect transistors” was published from researchers at Korea University. In this study, we present a ...
Embedded

Basics of SoC I/O design: Part 1 – The building blocks

The integration of analog with digital and the increase number of on-chip features in mixed-signal controllers demand more complex I/O structures. Though they are sometimes some of the most neglected ...
Electronic Design

So...The CMOS Circuits in Our Texts Go Back to 1963?

The first CMOS chip was created by Fairchild Semiconductor, presented at ISSCC in 1963. The logic topologies used in today’s textbooks originated in this work. P-type devices are slower than N-type by ...