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 ...
EurekAlert!

Two-dimensional MXene-based advanced sensors for neuromorphic computing intelligent application

As emerging two-dimensional (2D) materials, carbides and nitrides (MXenes) could be solid solutions or organized structures made up of multi-atomic layers. With remarkable and adjustable electrical, ...
Hackaday

Unusual Circuits In The Intel 386’s Standard Cell Logic

Intel’s 386 CPU is notable for being its first x86 CPU to use so-called standard cell logic, which swapped the taping out of ...
Electrical Construction & Maintenance

The Basics of Ladder Logic

Ladder logic uses switch or relay contacts to implement Boolean expressions. In years past, ladder logic was made possible with discrete relays and was sometimes termed “relay logic.” Today most ...
Embedded

Leveraging FPGA and CPLD digital logic to implement analog to digital converters

Designers of digital systems are familiar with implementing the 'leftovers' of their digital design by using FPGAs and CPLDs to glue together various processors, memories, and standard function ...