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Friday, October 17, 2014

What is CMOS Digital Electronics Technology C MOS

C-MOS or CMOS stands for complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor, it is a technology for constructing integrated circuits widely used in microprocessors, microcontrollers, and other Digital Memory RAM circuits. CMOS technology is also used for several analog circuits such as image sensors, data converters and transceivers for many types of communication. Created by Frank Wanlassem 1963, CMOS is also sometimes referred to as complementary-symmetry metal-oxide-c or COS-MOS semiconductor. The words "complementary-symmetry" refer to the fact that the typical digital design style with CMOS uses complementary and symmetrical pairs of field effect transistors (Field Effect Transistors - FET) p-type or n semiconductor oxide metal (MOSFETs) for logic functions, as shown in figure below.



What is CMOS

Existem features relevant and important in CMOS devices such as low immunity to static and low energy consumption. As one of the transistor pair is always turned off, the combinação em series consumes significant energy only momentarily during the alternation between connected and disconnected states (on / off). Consequentemente, CMOS devices NON produzem much heat as other forms of rationale, such as TTL, which typically consume current even quando em home.

The também CMOS technology enables high-density u funções em um logic single chip. It was mainly for this race that has become the most used technology to be applied em VLSI (Very-large-scale Integration), is the Process of criação integrated circuit through the combinação of milhares transistor em um single chip.

Family CMOS integrated circuits - 4000 and 74C

The 4000 series is a family of CMOS integrated circuits that implement a variety of logic functions that are still in use today . They were introduced by RCA as CD4000 series COS / MOS in the year 1968 as a lower power and a more versatile alternative to the 7400 series TTL . This CMOS series have the advantage of lower power consumption and wide range of supply voltages of 3 V to 15 V . However its speed is slower , 1 MHz , compared to the 10 MHz bipolar TTL , this limits their applications to projects of low speed or static .

Characteristics CMOS

Supply ( Vdd ) : as the supply voltage , this family allows for series 4000 and 74C operating in the range of 3V to 15V , for the HC version of 2V to 6V and HCT of 4.5 V to 5.5 V. For series low voltage , the range is from 1V to 3.6V and 1.2V to LV to 3.3 V , typical voltage of various current systems .

Integrated circuits CMOS Whenever there unused entries or entire unused ports , it is critical that all inputs are grounded or connected to + VDC , we have to take this step due to
large impedance inputs 10 ¹ ² Ω , and any stray current or arising from noise in the input lead to a considerable increase of tension.

The CMOS sub-families are in the table below.

HC - High Speed ​​CMOS - CMOS High Speed
HCT - High Speed ​​CMOS with TTL inputs - High Speed ​​CMOS with TTL inputs
AC - Advanced CMOS - CMOS Advanced High-speed version
ACT - Advanced CMOS with TTL inputs - Advanced CMOS inputs with TTL-version
BCT - BiCMOS Technology - Technology BiCMOS (Bipolar / CMOS)
ABT - Advanced BiCMOS Technology - Advanced BiCMOS Technology
LVT - Low Voltage Technology - Technology Low Voltage

New CMOS technology

New manufacturing technologies largely overcame the speed problems , while maintaining compatibility with most circuit designs . Although all semiconductors can be damaged by electrostatic discharge , high impedance CMOS inputs makes them more susceptible than bipolar transistors based , TTL . Eventually , the advantages of CMOS (especially the later series such as 74HC ) (High- speed CMOS ) surpassed the older TTL chips . The 4000 series is still widely available , but perhaps less important than it was two decades ago .

The 4000 series was expanded in the late 1970s and 1980s to include new functions , or were better versions , most of these newer chips were given the 4500 series, but are still considered by engineers as part of the series of 4000 . During the 1990s , some manufacturers such as Texas Instruments , merged its online its latest technology called HCMOS emerging devices like 74HCT4060 , having the same features of a 4060 but with greater speed.

CMOS integrated circuit

Lets take the example of 4011, an integrated circuit CMOS 4000 series, which contains four independent NAND gates of two inputs. The pinout see below. This chip is different in pinout to the TTL 7400, but it can fulfill its function if done modifications pins.


In 4011 pinout can see that the 7 pin is the negative supply and the 14 pin is the positive supply.
Since pins 1 and 2, 5, 6, 8, 9, 12 and 13 are input ports and pins 3, 4, 10, 11 are output ports. To get a better idea the image below shows the relationship without taking into account the position of the pins on the chip.


The truth table is a mathematical table that logic, it consists of a column for each variable (A and B in our case only two inputs) input, and a final column for all possible outcomes of the logic operation, output or output and in our case Q. Each row of the truth table contains one possible configuration of the input variables, and the result of the operation of such values​​.

H = HIGH = 1 high = 5 Volts
L = LOW = 0 = 0 = Low Volts

The truth table for the four doors 4011 is shown below.

A     B         Q
0     0         1
0     1         1
1     0         1
1     1         0

Advantages and disadvantages of CMOS integrated circuits

In comparison with other digital technologies and CMOS logic families have advantages and disadvantages, see below major.

Advantages

manufacturing is simpler and less costly;
does not use resistors;
has a high input impedance;

Disadvantages

fragility static electricity
delay time;
low-speed operation;

Other members of logic families:

RTL - resistor-transistor logic - Obsolete Technology
DTL - Diode-Transistor Logic - Obsolete Technology
DCTL - Transistor Logic Direct coupling
TTL - Transistor-Transistor Logic
ECL - Emitter-coupled logic
MOS - Metal Oxide Semiconductor:
PMOS - Logic of p-channel MOSFETs - Obsolete Technology
NMOS - Logic n-channel MOSFETs
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Friday, August 29, 2014

What Is Sound

Sound?
Websters dictionary defines sound as:

"The perceived object occasioned by the impulse or vibration of a material substance affecting the ear; a sensation or perception of the mind received through the ear, and produced by the impulse or vibration of the air or other medium with which the ear is in contact; the effect of an impression made on the organs of hearing by an impulse or vibration of the air caused by a collision of bodies, or by other means; noise; report; as, the sound of a drum; the sound of the human voice; a horrid sound; a charming sound; a sharp, high, or shrill sound."

Mmm, fancy. We all know what a sound is. Its a noise, something we sense with our ears. But what is sound? Its the vibration of the air by a moving body. For our purposes in car audio that moving body is our speakers. The movement of the speaker forward and backward causes a vibration in the air that our ear receives and we hear music. Heres what sound looks like as a wave:



 
A sound wave goes through a cycle of 360 degrees. As the speaker moves forward it goes from rest (0 degrees) through one quarter of its cycle to 90 degrees. As it starts to move back to rest it travels another 90 degrees to the 180 degree mark before moving completely rearward to 270 degrees. As it moves back to the rest position it travels the final 90 degrees to the 360 degree mark. The cycle then repeats itself and we hear the result as music. To summarize, as the speaker moves up and down it travels one cycle which equals 360 degrees. These cycles are measured in Hertz (Hz) with one Hertz being equal to one cycle. The lower the number of Hz the lower the sound we hear. A human can hear, on average, the sounds between 20 Hz and 20,000 Hz (also known as 20 kHz).

We do not hear all of the sounds equally though. Our ears are less sensitive to sounds at the far ends of the scale. This was discovered through research done by Fletcher and Munson and they have given us the "Fletcher-Munson" curve which illustrates this point.



Notice how the curve goes up at both ends of the scale. Also notice how the curve is greater at lower volume levels (sound pressure levels). This is what the loudness circuit on a head unit tries to do. Increase the level of the low and high frequencies at lower volume levels. As the volume goes up the level of boost at these frequencies is reduced. However, some loudness circuits do nothing more than boost the low and high frequencies by a constant amount. If youve seen a vehicle with an in-dash equalizer the chances are very good that the vertical sliders were arranged in a similar fashion to the Fletcher-Munson curve. This is sometimes called "making your EQ smile".
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