Nowadays CMOS Small Scale Integration (SSI) logic families, I.E. the gates used in external logic, offer very fast speeds and high current drive capability as well as supporting the low voltages ...

while pMOS transistors conduct current when the gate voltage is low. This complementary behavior is exploited in CMOS circuit design to create a system where only one type of transistor is on and ...

There is technically no such thing as a single CMOS "transistor." CMOS "gates," CMOS "logic" or CMOS "circuits" are more accurate terms, because CMOS technology is made up of NMOS and PMOS ...

Even though the energy consumed by a single CMOS logic gate to change state has fallen exponentially, the overall power consumption of the chip is still increasing. This paper talks about the power ...

In 1963, Frank Wanlass and C.T.Sah of Fairchild unveiled the first logic gate in which n-channel and p-channel transistors were used in a complementary symmetric circuit configuration. This is what is ...