EDN

Detect wire breaks with unusual CMOS gate circuit

CMOS devices have large input impedance with input currents on the order of 0.01nA. Adding feedback circuitry can result in a latch-like device that can be used to store bits, and also operate in a ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Robust Latch Hardened Against QNUs for Safety-Critical Applications in 22nm CMOS Technology

A technical paper titled “Cost-Optimized and Robust Latch Hardened against Quadruple Node Upsets for Nanoscale CMOS” was just published by researchers at Anhui University, Hefei University of ...
EDN

CMOS circuit latches relays

Control applications often requirethat you set a relay latch in positionuntil you need it to change state.Latching relays accomplish that task.When you send them a pulse, they eitherremain in the ...
Hackaday

gates to fpgas

In the previous installment, we talked about why flip flops are such an important part of digital design. We also looked at some latch circuits. This time, I want to look at some actual flip ...
Nature

Low-Voltage CMOS Analog Circuit Design

Low-voltage CMOS analog circuit design has emerged as a critical area of research, driven by the dual imperatives of energy efficiency and high-performance signal processing. This discipline focuses ...
Nature

Low-Power High-Speed CMOS Comparators and Analog-to-Digital Converters

Low-power high-speed CMOS comparators and analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) play a pivotal role in modern electronics, from data-intensive computing systems to precision biomedical instrumentation.