Taylor Emma

A senior editor for The Mars that left the company to join the team of SenseCentral as a news editor and content creator. An artist by nature who enjoys video games, guitars, action figures, cooking, painting, drawing and good music.
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Design as a tradeoff

Tradeoffs in product design. A product is a system that consists of…

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ALU

TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction An arithmetic logic unit (ALU) is a digital…

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Synchronous Design

Description The designers of digital integrated circuits (IC) are very concerned about…

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Astable Sequential Circuits

Regenerative switching circuits such as Astable Multivibrators are the most commonly used type of…

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Schmitt Trigger

Overview The Schmitt Trigger is a logic input type that provides hysteresis…

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Circuit Pitfalls

Outline • Circuit Pitfalls – Detective puzzle – Given circuit and symptom,…

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Domino Logic

Tinkering with Logic Gates Things to like about CMOS gates:       easy to…

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Transmission Gates

Introduction  A Transmission Gate (T-gate or TG or pass gate) is a bi-directional…

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Pass-Transistor Logic

• N transistors • No static consumption Primary inputs drive the gate…

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Dynamic Circuits

Introduction to Dynamic Gates Static logic is great for its robustness. However,…

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