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 ...
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

For Designers: Logic Nets In Transistor Cans

Logical microcircuits in transistor cans are now being offered by four major companies: Fairchild Semiconductor Corp., Raytheon Co., Philco Corp., General Instrument ...
Engineeringness on MSN

Transistors: The engine behind digital devices

Transistors are tiny components that act like switches and amplifiers, driving the logic behind every digital device. In this ...
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 ...
Digital Journal

Logic circuits with diamond-based transistors

The newly developed logic circuits are equipped with diamond-based MOSFETs (metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect-transistors), and they have two different operation modes. The different modes are a ...
Hackaday

TTL And CMOS Logic ICs: The Building Blocks Of A Revolution

When starting a new electronics project today, one of the first things that we tend to do is pick the integrated circuits that make up the core of the design. This can be anything from a ...
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., ...
ExtremeTech

Graphene magnetologic gates could replace silicon transistor logic

Physicists at the University of California, Riverside have received a $1.85 million research grant to work on "magnetologic gates," a brand new computing building block made from graphene and magnetic ...
ExtremeTech

What Is a Transistor, and How Does It Work?

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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 ...