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You can do all sorts of nifty things when you're designing silicon. Including this abomination.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carcinisation

Source: datasheet for LM161, a high speed (20ns delay) moderately high voltage (30V) comparator. I'm going to try and make a discrete version of some bits of it and see how well it works. Maybe not this triple-emitter NPN though, I draw the line at components that require livestock sacrifices.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Fascinating, a single transistor that allows multiple logic functions. I can see where that'd be extremely useful in an IC.

I never got to do IC development so it's cool to me :P