Cray had intended to use gallium arsenide circuitry in the Cray-2, which would not only offer much higher switching speeds, but also used less energy and thus ran cooler as well.
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His patent also showed how the Schottky transistor could be used in DTL circuits and improve the switching speed of saturated logic designs, such as the Schottky-TTL, at a low cost.
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Another problem is a reduction in switching speed or response, because the first transistor cannot actively inhibit the base current of the second one, making the device slow to switch off.
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Due to the growth in power consumption and switching speeds of modern high performance microprocessors, the " di / dt " effects are becoming a growing concern in high speed designs.
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At Microunity Engineering Systems Inc ., in Sunnyvale, Calif ., the company is using a three-dimensional technique from a little-known corner of the semiconductor world in its quest for higher switching speeds.
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Compared to the other power semiconductor devices, for example an insulated-gate bipolar transistor ( IGBT ) or a thyristor, its main advantages are high switching speed and good efficiency at low voltages.
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The applications for the device were initially regarded by the power electronics community to be severely restricted by its slow switching speed and latch-up of the parasitic thyristor structure inherent within the device.
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Due to the inherent nature of PAM in conjunction with the rapid switching speed of LEDs it is possible to use LED lighting as a means of wireless data transmission at high speed.
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The " switching speed " describes how many times per second an inverter ( an electronic representation of a " logical not " function ) can change from true to false and back.
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Although manufacturing these integrated circuits required additional processing steps, improved switching speed and the elimination of the extra power supply made this logic family the preferred choice for many microprocessors and other logic elements.
