Hackaday

Transistor Logic Clock Gets Stacked Up

A couple years back we covered a very impressive transistor logic clock which was laid out so an observer could watch all of the counters doing their thing, complete with gratuitous blinkenlights. It ...
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 ...
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 ...
Science Daily

Beyond 1 and 0: Engineers boost potential for creating successor to shrinking transistors

Scientists offer a solution to the fast-approaching physical minimum for transistor size: a multi-value logic transistor based on zinc oxide, capable of two stable intermediate states between 0 and 1.
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 ...
EDN

Transistor in a logic spin

Canadian scientists have built a prototype of a single-spin transistor. As electronics that relies on the charge of electrons reaches its technology barrier, harnessing the spin of electrons is being ...
Morning Overview on MSN

MIT finds a new way to pack more transistors on a chip

For decades, chipmakers have squeezed more computing power out of silicon by shrinking transistors, but that strategy is ...
Semiconductor Engineering

NAND and NOR logic-in-memory comprising silicon nanowire feedback field-effect transistors

“The processing of large amounts of data requires a high energy efficiency and fast processing time for high-performance computing systems. However, conventional von Neumann computing systems have ...
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., ...
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 ...
Nanowerk

Beyond 1 and 0: Engineers boost potential for creating successor to shrinking transistors

(Nanowerk News) Computers and similar electronic devices have gotten faster and smaller over the decades as computer-chip makers have learned how to shrink individual transistors, the tiny electrical ...