Diode–transistor logic (DTL) is a class of digital circuits that is the direct ancestor of transistor–transistor logic. It is called so because the logic...
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junction transistors (BJTs) as switching devices. RTL is the earliest class of transistorized digital logic circuit; it was succeeded by diode–transistor logic...
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"transistor"), as opposed to earlier resistor–transistor logic (RTL) and diode–transistor logic (DTL). TTL integrated circuits (ICs) were widely used in applications...
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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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Complemented transistor diode logic (CTDL) High-threshold logic (HTL) Transistor–transistor logic (TTL) Metal–oxide–semiconductor (MOS) logic P-type MOS...
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comparison). The primary way of building logic gates uses diodes or transistors acting as electronic switches. Today, most logic gates are made from MOSFETs...
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Additionally, just like in diode–transistor logic, transistor–transistor logic, emitter-coupled logic etc., the asymmetric input logic levels make NMOS and...
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point-contact transistor, starting with a germanium point-contact diode as a source of material (even a burnt-out diode could be used; and the transistor could...
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sensitive transistors. Specialized diodes are used to protect from over-voltages at higher power (see Diode types above). Diode–resistor logic constructs...
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using a single transistor. Multiple-emitter transistors replace the diodes of diode–transistor logic (DTL) to make transistor–transistor logic (TTL), 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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High-threshold logic (HTL), also known as low-speed logic (LSL) or high-level logic (HLL), is a variant of diode–transistor logic used in environments...
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A Schottky transistor is a combination of a transistor and a Schottky diode that prevents the transistor from saturating by diverting the excessive input...
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in both on- and off-line modes. Weighing 65 lb, the machine used diode–transistor logic instead of single transistors. Jerry Proc's page on the BID 770...
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a switching bipolar junction transistor (BJT) by applying a nonlinear negative feedback through various kinds of diodes. The reason for slow turn-off...
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Eccles discovered the crystal diode oscillator. Physicist Julius Edgar Lilienfeld filed a patent for a field-effect transistor (FET) in Canada in 1925, intended...
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programmable logic array chips. The "blank" PLA from the chip manufacturer came with a diode matrix or transistor matrix with a diode (or transistor) at every...
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collector–emitter doping are what differentiates a bipolar transistor from two separate diodes connected in series. The collector–emitter current can be...
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1973. p. 73. Historical databooks Transistor and Diode Data Book, 1100 pages, 1970, Fairchild Semiconductor. Diode Data Book, 210 pages, 1978, Fairchild...
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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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circuits: Solid Logic Dense (SLD) increased packaging density and circuit performance by mounting the discrete transistors and diodes on top of the substrate...
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Digital electronics (section Logic families)
ran cooler, and used less power, but had a very low fan-out of 3. Diode–transistor logic improved the fan-out up to about 7, and reduced the power. Some...
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MOSFET (redirect from Metal oxide semiconductor field-effect transistor)
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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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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NORBIT (redirect from NORbit (logic gates))
components to build logic function blocks in resistor–transistor logic (RTL) or diode–transistor logic (DTL) technology. The system was originally conceived...
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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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Electronic component (section Diodes)
components include amplifying components such as transistors, triode vacuum tubes (valves), and tunnel diodes. Passive components cannot introduce net energy...
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in 1964 both companies replaced it by the diode-transistor logic [91]. Signetics released the diode-transistor family Utilogic back in 1962, but fell behind...
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introduced the Micromatrix family of bipolar diode–transistor logic (DTL) and transistor–transistor logic (TTL) arrays. Complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor...
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Schottky diode (named after the German physicist Walter H. Schottky), also known as Schottky barrier diode or hot-carrier diode, is a semiconductor diode formed...
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