Hackaday

Transistor Logic Clock Gets Stacked Up

A couple years back we covered a very impressive transistor logic clock which was laid out so an observer could watch all of the counters doing their thing, complete with gratuitous blinkenlights. It ...
Hackaday

diode-transistor logic

Before the era of large-scale integration (LSI) semiconductor circuits, discrete logic circuits using the common diode-transistor logic (DTL) were still necessary and available in a format that was ...
EDN

Universal logic element on one transistor and its applications

A universal passive logic element of positive and negative logic, made on just one transistor, is proposed. The logic element has at least two inputs, as well as three outputs: an OR, an XOR, and an ...
Science Daily

Beyond 1 and 0: Engineers boost potential for creating successor to shrinking transistors

Scientists offer a solution to the fast-approaching physical minimum for transistor size: a multi-value logic transistor based on zinc oxide, capable of two stable intermediate states between 0 and 1.
Ars Technica

how big's a transistor? how many in a logic gate? etc...

(I also posted this in Other Hardware, 'cause I didn't know where it would get the best response.)<BR><BR>I'm writing a review of some ideas that have been proposed for nano-scale computing ...
Electronic Design

Could This “2D” Transistor Process Transform Logic and Power Device Production?

CDimension’s technology, which enables semiconductor makers to manufacture arrays of extremely small, fast, and efficient “2D” transistors, has the potential to change what’s possible for both digital ...
Electronics For You

Researchers Developed Ultralow Voltage Chips (0.6 volts) for AI and IoT Devices

When logic and memory operate at the same ultralow voltage, data transfer becomes seamless, hinting at new efficiencies in AI ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Applying a Floating Gate Field Effect Transistor To A Logic-in-Memory Application Circuit Design

A technical paper titled “Analysis of Logic-in-Memory Full Adder Circuit With Floating Gate Field Effect Transistor (FGFET)” was published by researchers at Konkuk University, Korea National ...
Electronic Design

For Designers: Logic Nets in Transistor Cans (ED article from 1961)

March 29, 1961 - LOGICAL microcircuits in transistor cans are now being offered by four major companies. Heavy research and production is being pressed by Fairchild Semiconductor Corp., Raytheon Co., ...
Hosted on MSN

MIT's chip stacking breakthrough could cut energy use in power-hungry AI processes

Engineers from MIT say that stacking circuit components on top of each other could be the answer to creating more energy-efficient artificial intelligence (AI) chips. The logic and memory components, ...
EDN

Diode-Transistor Logic

The circuit above is a 3−input Diode−Transistor Logic (DTL) gate. Write the truth table for the input combinations of 0 V and 5 V with respect to the ground. Which type of logic gate does this circuit ...