Universal Transistor Could Enable Much Smaller Circuits

[Guest]

It seems like this stuff could get much wilder than just having smaller circuits. Sounds like they could reprogram the logic the gates are using so that they're suddenly doing different computations. Maybe in your Arithmetic Logic Unit you could have 6 general units that can be configured to compute either floating point or integer operations rather than having 3 fixed FPUs and 3 fixed IUs. And graphics cards have some programmable things like shaders or something, but this could take it to another level.

Anyone have any idea how the program gates work? Do they use positive & negative voltages these days rather than positive and ground? Man, I need to restudy the old college books & learn lots of new things!

 

[TheDane]

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[aldaia]

[citation][nom]cyprod[/nom]But historically, p-types are extremely large on silicon, and as such, takes up a lot of real estate, so because of that though CMOS is ideal for leakage speed, nobody uses them, because they're too expensive to produce. Everybody strictly uses n-type transistors. [/citation]

Where have you been during the last 30 years? CMOS has been the technology used for microprocessors.

 

[John1969]

[citation][nom]cyprod[/nom]Okay, I studied ASIC design in college.....[/citation]


no you didn't...
no offense but your post is plain ridiculous and i don't think i've read anything like that in a long time. if that's sort of thing you would say on an interview, no wonder you could not land a job. replies from 'eilersr', 'ik242' and 'aldaia' are right on the money. you can't read, you don't understand article, you are not familiar with concepts and if you really graduated somewhere, there must have been some serious error.

- there is no P and N in technology described in article, they used I type (intrinsic)
- CMOS is not some obscure technology, it is used (a lot... cameras, logic, discrete transistors)
- P-type may be used less than N-type, but to say that 'nobody uses it' is a complete nonsense

... or companies making or selling following must be throwing money out of window;
http://ca.mouser.com/Search/Refine.aspx?Keyword=p-mos

 

[WyomingKnott]

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Thanks. I needed that!

 

[rebel1280]

"replies from 'eilersr', 'ik242' and 'aldaia' are right on the money"

I must admit, i didn't understand most (if any 🙁 ) of the article, but i did find it fascinating. Also thanks to the comments by the people named in the above quote i understand quite a bit more. I honestly felt i was trying to understand something Daniel Jackson was trying to tell me

"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed." -Albert Einstein