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 ...
EDN

Power dissipation in portables: Design considerations using low-power CMOS ICs

When a CMOS circuit is in an idle state there is still some static power dissipation–a result of leakage current through nominally off transistors. Both nMOS and pMOS transistors used in CMOS logic ...
Electronic Design

Understanding Low-Power IC Design Techniques

Low-power design is necessary for gaining and keeping market share. EDA vendors now offer low-power optimization tools, and device modelling has evolved to make more accurate power consumption ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Device Characteristics of GAA-Structured CMOS and CTFET Under Varying Temperatures

A new technical paper titled “Vertical-Stack Nanowire Structure of MOS Inverter and TFET Inverter in Low-temperature Application” was published by researchers at National Tsing Hua University and ...
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 ...