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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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  • 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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  • Transistortransistor logic (TTL) is a logic family built from bipolar junction transistors (BJTs). Its name signifies that transistors perform both the...
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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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    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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  • 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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  • emitter transistor in three input transistor-transistor logic gates. Triple collector transistor in three output integrated injection logic gates. Field...
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    Schottky-clamped transistor. Standard transistortransistor logic (TTL) uses transistors as saturated switches. A saturated transistor is turned on hard...
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  • The transistor count is the number of transistors in an electronic device (typically on a single substrate or silicon die). It is the most common measure...
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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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    metal–oxide–semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET, MOS-FET, MOS FET, or MOS transistor) is a type of field-effect transistor (FET), most commonly fabricated...
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  • of the diffusion transistor. Dual-emitter transistor, used in two-input transistortransistor logic gates Dual-collector transistor, used in two-output...
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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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    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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  • 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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  • with control grids in early electronic computers, then transistors in diode–transistor logic) is additionally required to provide logical inversion (NOT)...
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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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  • 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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    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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    made this logic family the preferred choice for many microprocessors and other logic elements. Depletion-mode n-type MOSFETs as load transistors allow single...
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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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    emitter-coupled logic (ECL) is a high-speed integrated circuit bipolar transistor logic family. ECL uses a bipolar junction transistor (BJT) differential...
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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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    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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  • 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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  • : 307  Germanium diffused junction transistors were used by IBM in their Saturated Drift Transistor Resistor Logic (SDTRL), used in the IBM 1620. (Announced...
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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 infrared radiation, voltage state logics, charge state logics, programmable single-electron transistor logic. The SET has, like the FET, three electrodes:...
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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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