Design and examination of a multiple-valued flip-flop circuit with stair shaped I-V curved device as a coupling element

Author

Karasawa, Shinji ; Yamanouchi, Kazuhiko

Author_Institution

Miyagi Nat. Coll. of Technol., Natori, Japan

fYear

1993

fDate

24-27 May 1993

Firstpage

152

Lastpage

157

Abstract

A stair-type multiple-valued flip-flop (MVFF) in which a device with the stair-shaped I-V curve is used for coupling the inverter is described. A pair of the quantizing inverters whose input and output are cross-coupled has many stable states. The MVFF designs are verified by actual circuits in which the coupling circuits consist of constant-current diodes and Zener diodes. A compact device with the stair-shaped I-V curve is obtained by inserting a stair-shaped gap between gate and drain in an ordinary MOSFET. Using this device as the coupling element for the inverter, the quantized MVFF circuit is examined

Keywords

Zener diodes; flip-flops; insulated gate field effect transistors; invertors; many-valued logics; MOSFET; Zener diodes; constant-current diodes; coupling element; inverter; multiple-valued flip-flop circuit; quantizing inverters; stair shaped I-V curved device; Coupling circuits; Digital systems; Diodes; Educational institutions; Flip-flops; MOSFET circuits; Registers; Stationary state; Voltage; Wires;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Multiple-Valued Logic, 1993., Proceedings of The Twenty-Third International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Sacramento, CA

Print_ISBN

0-8186-3350-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISMVL.1993.289567

Filename

289567