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Jul 27, 2021, 7 tweets

here's a cool logic gate. it's a single XOR gate, but it's fully differential AND it runs at 30GHz!

it's a bit expensive though, at $770 each. imagine building a computer out of these things. maybe a simple 8-bit computer. but you'd need about a million bucks

cool, it has a pair of pins called "dapper dan"

same company has a 50GHz D flip-flop. that would be good for a fast register file. only $1K per bit.

there are a lot of difficulties designing with logic like this. due to signal integrity constraints, fanout is 1.

you'd need a signal buffer like this if your gate output needs to connect to more than one input.

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