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A modern chip switches billions of transistors a second with no moving parts

Semiconductor transistors now switch states in single-digit picoseconds, enabling processors to flip billions of logic gates ...
Electronic Design

So...The CMOS Circuits in Our Texts Go Back to 1963?

The first CMOS chip was created by Fairchild Semiconductor, presented at ISSCC in 1963. The logic topologies used in today’s textbooks originated in this work. P-type devices are slower than N-type by ...
EDN

Single Chip 16-bit CMOS Microcomputer

The M16C/29 is a group of 16-bit, single chip control microcontrollers that featuring high-performance silicon gate CMOS technology. It offers instructions for high-level efficiency, designed for ...
Electronic Design

Creating On-Chip MEMS Sensors in CMOS

Nanusens' novel approach to creating nanoscale sensor structures inside the CMOS layers. How the methodology helps shrink cost and size. Previously, MEMS sensors were created by employing proprietary ...
ExtremeTech

Graphene photodetectors integrated into CMOS silicon chips, could herald new optoelectronic era

Researchers created a silicon chip with an integrated graphene photo-detector; the wonder material that seems poised to revolutionize so many industries could change the way we build computers, too.
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Chip-processing method could assist cryptography schemes to keep data secure

Cambridge, MA – Just like each person has unique fingerprints, every CMOS chip has a distinctive “fingerprint” caused by tiny, random manufacturing variations. Engineers can leverage this unforgeable ...