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To: sourcery
Don't get too excited -- the work-horse of microelectronics is the transisor, not the diode.
4 posted on 10/16/2003 5:06:09 PM PDT by expatpat
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To: expatpat
I believe you're missing something.
6 posted on 10/16/2003 5:12:47 PM PDT by jwalsh07
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To: expatpat
That might just be the point the article was trying to arrive at. Why build a gate out of two or more FETs when you can make several with about as many diodes?
7 posted on 10/16/2003 5:17:22 PM PDT by dr_who_2
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To: expatpat
There's a whole field of work in Diode-Diode and Transistor-diode logic that could benefit from this work.

9 posted on 10/16/2003 5:25:04 PM PDT by krb (the statement on the other side of this tagline is false)
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