At the heart of the circuit lies a Texas Instruments SN74LVC1G97 Schmitt-input multifunction gate (I1) configured as a dual-gated oscillator. When the relay control signal (RLY_SIG) is low, the ...

Few realize how close an optical coupler resembles a relay. It is so close, in fact, that one can be wired as a Run-Stop latch circuit. One advantage over the relay is that it may be turned off via a ...

They are, of course, not the only ones trying. The race to shrink electronic circuits will continue, even if and when the transistor falls by the wayside.

Like a standard transistor, the structure can manipulate an electrical signal that passes through the crossbar latch. Conventional transistors rely on the semi-conducting characteristics of silicon, ...

The nanotechnology team at Hewlett-Packard has found a way of improving computer power by replacing transistors with the ‘crossbar latch’, which is a bistable-switch latch in the field of molecular ...