As a special bonus, [lonesoulsurfer] made a little square wave-squirting synth based on the 4046 hex inverter and included the schematic for it. Slide your finger past the break to check ’em ...

The result is low power consumption because very little energy is wasted as heat. For example, consider a simple CMOS inverter circuit. An inverter takes an input signal and produces an output signal ...

Naturally, CMOS always ought to provide INVERTED outputs like Inverter, NAND, NOR etc. Sometimes a non-inverting function is required, in which case it's just as easy to implement it with a final ...