Inside the Internet of Things - Bryon Moyer Blog
[From the last episode: We looked at the quantum phenomenon of tunneling, and saw how it can allow insulators to conduct a little current.] Everything we’ve talked about so far has related to digital circuits, which are either on or off (in theory). That’s what makes CMOS so useful. But […]
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[From the last episode: We looked at leakage current that happens when transistors aren’t totally off.] We’ve talked before about the simplicity of – on or off – and how that’s something of an oversimplification due to leakage. We also saw the assertion that, with a physical , if there’s […]
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[From the last episode: we looked at the concept of dynamic power – which applies to CMOS even though static power is zero. (Or is it?…)] So far, we’ve seen a pretty ideal world where, with the mere flip of a transistor , we can go from consuming no energy […]
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[From the last episode: We looked at different transistor types and saw why it is that, with CMOS, there is no static power.] Just because CMOS circuits have no static power doesn’t mean we’re out of the woods. Yeah, it’s possible to say that we’re doing “work” while the circuit […]
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