Hackaday

Biasing Transistors With Current Sources

Over on his YouTube channel [Aaron Danner] explains biasing transistors with current sources in the 29th video of his Transistors Series. In this video, he shows how to replace a bias resistor (and ...
Semiconductor Engineering

3-to-1 Reconfigurable Analog Signal Modulation Circuit On A Single Device

A new technical paper titled “Three-to-one analog signal modulation with a single back-bias-controlled reconfigurable transistor” was published by researchers at NaMLab gGmbH, GlobalFoundries, and TU ...
Electronic Design

Superior JFET Biasing Improves Amplifier Performance

An N-channel JFET has a low bias current when its gate is biased negative to the source. However, this requires either that the gate voltage be biased negative with respect to the source voltage or ...
Electronic Design

Advanced 90-nm Process Packs 400 Million Transistors On-Chip

With over 400 million transistors on a single chip, Texas Instruments' next-generation 90-nm (0.09-µm) CMOS process will enable TI to pack DSP, microcontroller, memory, logic, analog, and RF functions ...
Semiconductor Engineering

New Materials Open Door To New Devices

Integrating 2D materials into conventional semiconductor manufacturing processes may be one of the more radical changes in the chip industry’s history. While there is pain and suffering associated ...