EDN

Bipolar Transistor Circuit Design & Analysis, Part 4

In Parts 1, 2, and 3 we took a closer look at calculating “ac” gain and how to desensitize the circuit to temperature and transistor parameter variations. In part 4 we consider the effects of a ...
Hackaday

Circuit VR: Starting An Amplifier Design

Sometimes I wish FETs had become practical before bipolar transistors. A FET is a lot more like a tube and amplifies voltages. Bipolar transistors amplify current and that makes them a bit harder to ...
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 ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Understanding Memory

New semiconductor applications are ever changing and improving our lives, from new smartphones and wearables to healthcare, factory automation, and artificial intelligence. The humble memory chip ...
sciencex

Imec Demonstrates Capacitor-less IGZO-Based DRAM Cell With >400s Retention Time

This week, at the 2020 International Electron Devices Meeting, imec, a world-leading research and innovation hub in nanoelectronics and digital technologies, presents a novel dynamic random-access ...
Electronic Design

Scaling The 1T DRAM Cell

One-transistor, one-capacitor (1T-1C) DRAM cells have been commercially implemented since at least 1999. They save die area compared to conventional 6-T DRAM cells, use less power, yield better, and ...