• Transistortransistor logic (TTL) is a logic family built from bipolar junction transistors. Its name signifies that transistors perform both the logic...
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  • Resistor–transistor logic (RTL), sometimes also known as transistor–resistor logic (TRL), is a class of digital circuits built using resistors as the...
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    Diode–transistor logic (DTL) is a class of digital circuits that is the direct ancestor of transistortransistor logic. It is called so because the logic gating...
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    2012. Multiple-emitter transistor, used in transistortransistor logic and integrated current mirrors Multiple-base transistor, used to amplify very-low-level...
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    metal–oxide–semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET, MOS-FET, or MOS FET) is a type of field-effect transistor (FET), most commonly fabricated by the...
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    junction transistor (BJT) is a type of transistor that uses both electrons and electron holes as charge carriers. In contrast, a unipolar transistor, such...
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    Direct-coupled transistor logic (DCTL) is similar to resistor–transistor logic (RTL) but the input transistor bases are connected directly to the collector...
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  • bipolar transistors with the emitter of one transistor connected to the base of the other, such that the current amplified by the first transistor is amplified...
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  • order of 100,000 transistors. Early experimental solid-state computers had as few as 130 transistors but used large amounts of diode logic. The first carbon...
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    The point-contact transistor was the first type of transistor to be successfully demonstrated. It was developed by research scientists John Bardeen and...
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  • A transistor is a semiconductor device with at least three terminals for connection to an electric circuit. In the common case, the third terminal controls...
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    CMOS (redirect from CMOS transistor)
    field-effect transistor (MOSFET) fabrication process that uses complementary and symmetrical pairs of p-type and n-type MOSFETs for logic functions. CMOS...
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  • electronics, pass transistor logic (PTL) describes several logic families used in the design of integrated circuits. It reduces the count of transistors used to...
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  • emitter transistor in three input transistor-transistor logic gates. Triple collector transistor in three output integrated injection logic gates. Field...
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    A fin field-effect transistor (FinFET) is a multigate device, a MOSFET (metal–oxide–semiconductor field-effect transistor) built on a substrate where the...
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  • nMOS logic (from N-type metal–oxide–semiconductor) uses n-type (-) MOSFETs (metal–oxide–semiconductor field-effect transistors) to implement logic gates...
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  • argued case for optical logic is that optical transistor switching times can be much faster than in conventional electronic transistors. This is due to the...
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    Schottky-clamped transistor. Standard transistor-transistor logic (TTL) uses transistors as saturated switches. A saturated transistor is turned on hard...
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    field-effect transistors). They can also be constructed using vacuum tubes, electromagnetic relays with relay logic, fluidic logic, pneumatic logic, optics...
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  • Resistor–transistor logic (RTL) Direct-coupled transistor logic (DCTL) Direct-coupled unipolar transistor logic (DCUTL) Resistor–capacitor–transistor logic (RCTL)...
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    field-effect transistor (MuGFET) refers to a metal–oxide–semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET) that has more than one gate on a single transistor. The...
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  • of the diffusion transistor. Dual emitter transistor, used in two-input transistor-transistor logic gates Dual collector transistor, used in two-output...
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    A transistor computer, now often called a second-generation computer, is a computer which uses discrete transistors instead of vacuum tubes. The first...
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    An organic field-effect transistor (OFET) is a field-effect transistor using an organic semiconductor in its channel. OFETs can be prepared either by vacuum...
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  • An active device (vacuum tubes in early computers, then transistors in diode–transistor logic) is additionally required to provide logical inversion (NOT)...
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    circuits. NMOS logic inverter PMOS logic inverter Static CMOS logic inverter NPN resistor–transistor logic inverter NPN transistortransistor logic inverter...
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    mode metal–oxide–semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFETs). In the late 1960s and early 1970s, PMOS logic was the dominant semiconductor technology...
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    popular logic family of transistortransistor logic (TTL) integrated circuits (ICs). In 1964, Texas Instruments introduced the SN5400 series of logic chips...
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    single consumer of integrated circuits between 1961 and 1965. Transistortransistor logic (TTL) was developed by James L. Buie in the early 1960s at TRW...
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    emitter-coupled logic (ECL) is a high-speed integrated circuit bipolar transistor logic family. ECL uses an overdriven bipolar junction transistor (BJT) differential...
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