Semiconductor Engineering

CAM-Based CMOS Implementation Of Reference Frames For Neuromorphic Processors (Carnegie Mellon U.)

“Neuromorphic architectures mimicking biological neural networks have been proposed as a much more efficient alternative to conventional von Neumann architectures for the exploding compute demands of ...
Design-Reuse

Efficient logic optimization utilizing complementary behavior of CMOS gates

Any typical digital design style with CMOS uses complementary pairs of p-type and n-type MOSFETs for logic functions implementation. Naturally, CMOS always ought to provide INVERTED outputs like ...
Semiconductor Engineering

CMOS-Based HW Topology For Single-Cycle In-Memory XOR/XNOR Operations

A technical paper titled “CMOS-based Single-Cycle In-Memory XOR/XNOR” was published by researchers at University of Tennessee, University of Virginia, and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). “Big ...
Design-Reuse

Low Power Universal Gates for Approximate Computing

Density and speed of IC’s have increased exponentially for several decades, following a trend described by Moore’s Law. While it is accepted that this exponential improvement trend will end, it is ...
Hackaday

Decapsulating A PIC12F683 To Examine Its CMOS Implementation

In a recent video, [Andrew Zonenberg] takes us through the process of decapsulating a PIC12F683 to take a peek at its CMOS implementation. This is a multipart series with five parts done and more to ...