What is the CMOS technology?

[rajeshks]

what is cmos?

 

[abbas1707]

Re: what is cmos?

tams-www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/applets/cmos/cmosdemo.html

 

[suvendu]

Re: what is cmos?

CMOS is a combination of NMOS and PMOS .
MOSFET stands for Metal Oxide Semiconductor field effect transistor. In short we call it MOS

 

[Khurram Shahzad]

what is cmos?

CMOS is abbriv for Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor.

 

[wuliao]

Re: what is cmos?

check https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CMOS

 

[rajsrikanth]

Re: what is cmos?

cmos is Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor. cmos is a kind of technology used for fabricating integrated circuits.

 

[pravin_dwaramwar]

Re: what is cmos?

Complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor (CMOS) is a major class of integrated circuits. CMOS technology is used in chips such as microprocessors, microcontrollers, static RAM, and other digital logic circuits. CMOS technology is also used for a wide variety of analog circuits such as image sensors, data converters, and highly integrated transceivers for many types of communication.

CMOS is also sometimes explained as complementary-symmetry metal–oxide–semiconductor. The words "complementary-symmetry" refer to the fact that the typical digital design style with CMOS uses complementary and symmetrical pairs of p-type and n-type MOSFETs for logic functions.

Two important characteristics of CMOS devices are high noise immunity and low static power supply drain. Significant power is only drawn when its transistors are switching between on and off states; consequently, CMOS devices do not produce as much heat as other forms of logic such as TTL. CMOS also allows a high density of logic functions on a chip.

The triple compound "metal–oxide–semiconductor" is a reference to the nature of the physical structure of early (and interestingly now, the very latest) field-effect transistors, having a metal gate electrode placed on top of an oxide insulator, which in turn is on top of a semiconductor material. Instead of metal, current gate electrodes (including those up to the 65 nanometer technology node) are almost always made from a different material, polysilicon, but the terms MOS and CMOS nevertheless continue to be used for the modern descendants of the original process. Metal gates have made a comeback with the advent of high-k dielectric materials in the CMOS transistor as announced by IBM and Intel for the 45 nanometer node

 

[anoillacc]

what is cmos?

I have always had the doubt about these number "45nm", "90nm" signify?

 

[fixrouter4400]

Re: what is cmos?

I have always had the doubt about these number "45nm", "90nm" signify?

45nm and 90nm are the technology process used to build a chip.

45nm means the smallest size a gate can use is .045microns or 45nanometer
same is true with 95nm .095microns or 95nanometere.

 

[davidkho]

Re: what is cmos?

typically in the industry we call 45nm, 90nm and etc as techonology node
CMOS foundry is compete to achieve smaller technology node
Smaller technology node mean smaller footprint, less power comsumption for the chip

 

[anilsaini]

what is cmos?

CMOS means "Complementry Metal Oxide Semiconductor". It has both type of transistor NMOS as well as PMOS.
CMOS technology may be n-well or p-well or Twin tube process. In CMOS circuits pull-up logic made by PMOS, and pull-down logic made by NMOS transistor. with respect to power consumption and area, it is better than Bipolar.

 

[irfankundi]

what is cmos?

Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor) Pronounced "c-moss." The most widely used integrated circuit design. It is found in almost every electronic product from handheld devices to mainframes. CMOS uses PMOS and NMOS transistors wired together in a balanced fashion that causes less power to be used than NMOS or PMOS transistors by themselves. The first transistors were bipolar, which are still used when higher power is required. CMOS and bipolar are also used in combination for many applications. See MOSFET, FET and bipolar.

 

[jinal patel]

what is cmos?

Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor. basically used as an ideal inverter sicne it occupy samll area in chip and also DC power dissipation is samll compare to other inverter