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Author: 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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Domino Logic

Tinkering with Logic Gates Things to like about CMOS gates:       easy to translate logic to fets       rail-to-rail switching…

September 21, 2021 · Taylor Emma
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Transmission Gates

Introduction  A Transmission Gate (T-gate or TG or pass gate) is a bi-directional switch made up of an NMOS…

September 21, 2021 · Taylor Emma
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Pass-Transistor Logic

• N transistors • No static consumption Primary inputs drive the gate terminals + source-drain terminals. In contrast…

September 21, 2021 · Taylor Emma
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Dynamic Circuits

Introduction to Dynamic Gates Static logic is great for its robustness. However, it is too slow to meet…

September 21, 2021 · Taylor Emma
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Ratioed Logic Circuit

Ratioed MOS circuits have been known for many years, and were used widely in the past despite their…

September 21, 2021 · Taylor Emma
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Static CMOS Logic

The principle of static CMOS logic is shown in Fig. A.13(a): the output is connected to ground through an…

September 21, 2021 · Taylor Emma
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Scaling

Reducing the channel length of a MOSFET can be described in terms of scaling theory. A scaling parameter…

September 21, 2021 · Taylor Emma
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Linear delay model

Linear delay model in VLSI This post tells about logical effort and parasitic delay in linear delay model in VLSI.…

September 21, 2021 · Taylor Emma
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RC delay model

Delay Definitions Simulated Inverter Delay Delay Estimation RC Delay Models

September 21, 2021 · Taylor Emma