Semiconductor Engineering

Vertically stacked, low-voltage organic ternary logic circuits including nonvolatile floating-gate memory transistors

Researchers demonstrate “a low-voltage organic ternary logic circuit, in which the organic HTR was vertically integrated with the organic nonvolatile flash memory.” “Multi-valued logic (MVL) circuits ...
Electronic Design

Floating-Gate Technology Voltage References Go Down To 1.25 And 2.5 V

A precise, temperature-compensated voltage reference circuit lies at the heart of every analog-to-digital converter. Voltage-reference technology hadn't changed fundamentally in decades until last ...
EurekAlert!

Reducing open-circuit voltage loss in organic solar cells

The power conversion efficiencies of organic solar cells (OSCs) based on blends of electron donor (D) and acceptor (A) semiconducting materials now exceed 16%. However, it is still lower than that of ...
Design-Reuse

How to Reduce FPGA Logic Cell Usage by >x5 for Floating-Point FFTs

Here we provide rational for using Centar’s floating-point IP core for the new Altera Arria 10 and Stratix 10 FPGA platforms. After a short contextual discussion section, a comparison of various FFT ...
Electronic Design

Process Enhancements Reduce RDS(ON) in High-Voltage Mixed-Signal ASICs

AMI Semiconductor, a designer and manufacturer of integrated mixed-signal and structured digital products, has enhanced its I2T100 Smart Power mixed-signal semiconductor technology, reducing ...
EDN

Analog floating-gate technology comes into its own

Just as its name implies, a floating-gate transistor’s driving terminal is electrically isolated from the rest of the device—that is, floating—so there is no direct internal dc path from the input ...