Design News

What Should We Do With the Inputs to Unused Logic Gates & Functions? (Part 1)

I fear the topic of this column is poised to unleash a tsunami of controversy. My engineering accomplice Joe Farr says that this is one of those topics that, when presented to 10 different engineers, ...
EDN

Digital Electronics Course – Part 11: Oscillators with Logic Gates

Oscillators, also called astable multivibrators, are electronic devices that generate a periodic signal. They are employed in a large number of applications such as clocks, oscillophones, musical ...
Semiconductor Engineering

3D-Printed Logic Gates and Resettable Fuses, Via Material Extrusion (MIT)

A new technical paper titled “Semiconductor-free, monolithically 3D-printed logic gates and resettable fuses” was published by researchers at MIT. “This work reports the first active electronics fully ...
EDN

Using isolated ADCs and an XNOR logic gate as a multiplier to measure active power

Multiplying two analog signals involves the use of analog multipliers, usually implemented by using log and antilog circuit blocks or the Gilbert cell. Today, the most common technique used to ...
Semiconductor Engineering

HW Security: Flip-Flops Along Logic Gates to Prevent Synthesis Tools’ Structural Leakages (TU Dresden, Ruhr Univ. Bochum)

A new technical paper titled “Flip-Lock: A Flip-Flop-Based Logic Locking Technique for Thwarting ML-based and Algorithmic Structural Attacks” was published by researchers at TU Dresden and Ruhr ...