Nowadays CMOS Small Scale Integration (SSI) logic families, I.E. the gates used in external logic, offer very fast speeds and high current drive capability as well as supporting the low voltages ...

while pMOS transistors conduct current when the gate voltage is low. This complementary behavior is exploited in CMOS circuit design to create a system where only one type of transistor is on and ...

In 1963, Frank Wanlass and C.T.Sah of Fairchild unveiled the first logic gate in which n-channel and p-channel transistors were used in a complementary symmetric circuit configuration. This is what is ...

1 Fig. 1 NAND inverting gate and AND non-inverting gate Standard CMOS gates used in IC design are inverting for a variety of reasons, including lower area and delay compared to the non inverting ...