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 ...
EDN

IC Performance: Challenges in Layout with CMOS Technology Nodes

Editor’s note: I am pleased to bring you an important technical blog by Fernando Lavalle, a Ph.D. student at Texas A&M University and his colleague, Suraj Prakash, who have been working and studying ...
EDN

Models for high-voltage transistors in a standard CMOS process

Designers of electronics and communications systems are constantly faced with the challenge of integrating greater functionality on less silicon area. Many of the system blocks – such as power ...
Electronic Design

Understanding Low-Power IC Design Techniques

Low-power IC design techniques have been around for quite a while. They weren’t always required, though they were nice to have. The rapid growth of the consumer market for battery-powered devices has ...
Business Wire

X-FAB Sets the Benchmark for Low-Noise CMOS by Reducing Flicker Noise by a Factor of Five with Its New Cost-Effective Transistors on 0.35µm and 0.18µm CMOS Platforms

ERFURT, Germany--(BUSINESS WIRE)--X-FAB Silicon Foundries, the leading More-than- Moore foundry, today announced new transistors that have drastically reduced flicker noise on its mixed-signal 0.35µm ...
Nature

Low-Power CMOS Flip-Flop Design and Power Management

Recent advances in Complementary Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor (CMOS) technology have underscored the importance of power-efficient flip-flop designs for modern electronic systems. Over recent years, ...
Nanowerk

Molybdenum disulfide memristors make the leap to standard CMOS chips

Nanoscale molybdenum disulfide memristors integrated onto standard CMOS chips achieve the lowest switching voltage reported ...
Science Daily

Tapping into the 300 GHz band with an innovative CMOS transmitter

New phased-array transmitter design overcomes common problems of CMOS technology in the 300 GHz band. Thanks to its remarkable area efficiency, low power consumption, and high data rate, the proposed ...
ExtremeTech

Researchers create CMOS-compatible, 30nm programmable graphene transistor

Electronic engineers at Japan's GNC and AIST research centers have successfully created graphene transistors that are constructed and operated in a way that redefines 50 years of transistor ...
Hexus

AMD announces world's fastest Cmos Transistor

make use of 300-mm wafers. "Our ongoing research allows us to stay on the forefront of transistor design, which translates into increasingly powerful processors. Transistor technology is the 'engine' ...