When NMOS Married CMOS The transition from NMOS to CMOS came as a surprise to many. Most people thought CMOS too slow and insufficiently dense to become the industry’s mainstream process technology.

Since CMOS has been around for about 50 years, a comprehensive history would be a book. This blog focuses on what I consider the major transitions. Before CMOS, there was NMOS (also PMOS, but I have ...

When a CMOS circuit is in an idle state there is still some static power dissipation–a result of leakage current through nominally off transistors. Both nMOS and pMOS transistors used in CMOS logic ...

This is what is known as CMOS today. It draws almost zero static power dissipation. Early ICs used NMOS technology, because the NMOS process was fairly simple, less expensive and more devices could be ...

Getting CMOS And 1Mbit DRAMs Into Production by Tsuyoshi Kawanishi In 1970, Toshiba started to get involved with CMOS. “For Toshiba, which was late in introducing the previous generation NMOS ...

Application of the models The models with their corresponding parameters are integrated into the standard CMOS library, so that one now has a “new” process with the high performance analog devices and ...