EDN

SIMULATION: PSP transistor tapped for standard

San Francisco After months of intense and reportedly often heated debate, the Compact Model Council has selected a new industry standard CMOS transistor model. Jointly developed by Pennsylvania State ...
Purdue University

Complete atom-by-atom transistor simulation run in 15 minutes

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - A simulation of electrical current moving through a futuristic electronic transistor has been modeled atom-by-atom in less than 15 minutes by Purdue University researchers. The ...
Electronic Design

Dirt Cheap ASIC Design for Dummies (Part 3): NMOS, PMOS Silicon Design Using a Web Browser

Quickly learn what the difference is between PMOS and NMOS transistors in their structure and operation, and how CMOS works with the two in combination. Siliwiz, a free, browser-based, ASIC layout ...

"Something the world has never seen before" – revolutionary cryo-CMOS transistor thrives in freezing conditions; could be used for scaling quantum computing and in …

Heat is widely recognized as the enemy of sensitive electronic components, but ultra-low temperatures can also pose serious ...
NextBigFuture

Breakthrough Pseudo CMOS Transistors for 1000 Times More Efficient Computing

As transistors are scaled to smaller dimensions, their static power increases. Combining two-dimensional (2D) channel materials with complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor (CMOS) logic architectures ...
PC Magazine

CMOS transistor

The most widely used integrated circuit (IC) technology. Although the term CMOS "transistor" is widely used, it is somewhat misleading because in order to reduce power consumption, CMOS is actually ...
NextBigFuture

BREAKTHROUGH CMOS N-Type Diamond Transistors

Diamond CMOS needs symmetrical doping control like we have for semiconductor silicon and diamond n-MOS is needed. The n-channel diamond MOSFETs are demonstrated. This work will enable the development ...
Digi Times

North American startup Zinite pursues the real 3D chip with thin-film transistor innovation

Zinite is seeking to shake up the semiconductor industry through innovations in transistor architecture to achieve more chip performance density. Founded by Gem Shoute, Douglas Barlage, and Kenneth ...
Nanowerk

CMOS Technology Explained

Complementary Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor (CMOS) technology is a vital part of modern electronics, used in designing and manufacturing integrated circuits (ICs) that power many digital devices. CMOS ...
EDN

On-chip VCOs can be digitally tuned

Synchronous systems, whether analog or digital, all use a clock reference signal, typically generated using a high-frequency phase-locked loop (PLL), where power consumption, frequency range and ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Beyond CMOS: Making Way For The Next-Generation Of Semiconductor Materials

Before the advent of the cell phone, the idea of having access to a phone virtually anytime, anywhere and in a package smaller than a human hand seemed almost impossible. Today that innovation, and ...