CMOS stands for Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor. Even though it’s a small chip on your motherboard, it does a lot more than you might expect. First, let’s clear up a common misunderstanding: ...

A previously-published Design Idea outlined a polarity protection circuit that provides the correct connection of the battery to a load regardless of the battery’s orientation in its holder. The ...

Standard CMOS is the most basic and widely used, operating with a power supply voltage of 5V or 3.3V, and having a simple structure, low power consumption, and high noise margin.

The CMOS battery is an often overlooked but crucial element. Hidden on the motherboard of your computer, it acts like an emergency power supply for the BIOS.

There are three main ways to integrate MEMS with CMOS circuits: monolithic, hybrid, and wafer-level. Monolithic integration involves fabricating both MEMS and CMOS on the same substrate, which can ...

CMOS technology has dominated the IC business for the last 25 years and will continue to do so for another 25 years, according to the author of CMOS Circuit Design, Layout, and Simulation.

CMOS current reference circuits play a critical role in modern integrated circuits by providing a stable and reproducible current source that remains unaffected by variations in supply voltage ...

On one end of the twisted pair is a power supply and decoder circuit, which sends 9 volts up the line to power the PIC sensor. The decoder is based on a CD4538 dual monostable multivibrator, set ...

If you're getting errors when you boot your PC, the problem may be nothing more than a dead CMOS battery. Fortunately, they're cheap and easy to replace--on desktops, anyway.

If your CMOS battery is dead or you just want to reset your BIOS, the hardest step is usually just finding the battery! The rest is simple—just pull it out and pop a new one in. CMOS batteries ...