EDN

CMOS winner-take-all circuits: A tutorial

The human vision-processing system is built of numerous complex neural layers that communicate with one another by means of feedforward and feedback neural connections. Via these connections, each ...
EDN

Models for high-voltage transistors in a standard CMOS process

Designers of electronics and communications systems are constantly faced with the challenge of integrating greater functionality on less silicon area. Many of the system blocks – such as power ...
Design-Reuse

CEA-LETI Develops Circuits for Neuromorphic Processors That Replace CMOS Transistor-Based Tcam Memory With Rram-Based Tcam Memory

SAN FRANCISCO – Dec. 5, 2018 – Leti, a research institute at CEA Tech, has proven that RRAM-based ternary-content addressable memory (TCAM) circuits, featuring the most compact structure developed to ...
NextBigFuture

Breakthrough Pseudo CMOS Transistors for 1000 Times More Efficient Computing

As transistors are scaled to smaller dimensions, their static power increases. Combining two-dimensional (2D) channel materials with complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor (CMOS) logic architectures ...
Nature

Tunnel field-effect transistors as energy-efficient electronic switches

Reducing the size of complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor (CMOS) field-effect transistors (FETs) has enabled extraordinary improvements in the switching speed, density, functionality and cost of ...
NextBigFuture

Intel surrounding CMOS with new device architectures using new materials such as magnetic memories, Qubits, GaN transistors

Keynote speaker, IEEE Fellow Kevin Zhang, vice president of Intel’s Technology and Manufacturing Group, also Intel Director of Circuit Technology who led processor development from the 90-to-22 ...
Science Daily

Germanium: Semiconductor milestone

A laboratory at Purdue University provided a critical part of the world's first transistor in 1947 -- the purified germanium semiconductor -- and now researchers there are on the forefront of a new ...