Electronic Design

Gold and Silver Nanowires Create Biosensors—and Basic Logic Circuits

What are the challenges for real-time biosensing and “edge” analysis? How do gold and gold-silver nanowires address the issue? How these sensors can implement elementary logic functions. Wearable ...
C&EN

First Logic Circuits Built From A 2-D Material

Researchers have built logic circuits, the heart of all electronic gadgets, on molybdenum disulfide films that are two molecular layers thick (Nano Lett., DOI: 10.1021/nl302015v). The devices are the ...
Linux Journal

Digital and Analog Circuit Simulation with Ksimus

I took a Computer Logic Design class in college, so when I stumbled upon the Ksimus Circuit Simulator, I was intrigued. At the risk of waxing nostalgic, I remember what it was like to build circuits ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Logic Synthesis Basics For FPGA

In the early days of digital design, all circuits were designed manually. You would draw K-map, optimize the logic and draw the schematics. If you remember, we all ...
EDN

Digital Electronics Course – Part 5: Logic gates

A logic gate is an electronic component (or set of them) that performs a logic operation, in which the binary values 0 and 1 are represented with two different voltage values, as seen in the previous ...
Electronic Design

Fundamentals of Reversible Logic

In basic engineering classes, students learn the fundamentals of logic circuits. These logic circuits are the foundation of computing. There’s an inherent limitation in the basic logic circuits, ...
EurekAlert!

Optical logic gates in future computers

A new publication from Opto-Electronic Science; DOI 10.29026/oes.2022.220010 considers optical logic gates in future computers. If you are reading this on your smartphone, its CPU (central processing ...