Electrical Engineering › Section X · Processors and integrated circuit technologies › Topic X.5
CMOS circuits
Almost every digital chip made today, from a microcontroller to a phone processor, is built from CMOS gates. Pairing n-channel and p-channel MOSFETs so that one is always off is what lets billions of transistors run on so little power.
In this topic
- Why CMOS won
- The MOSFET as a switch
- The CMOS inverter
- Worked example: where gate delay comes from
- The CMOS NAND gate
- The CMOS NOR gate
- Worked example: designing a complex gate
- Open-drain and tri-state outputs
- Handling CMOS safely
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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