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A part of the motherboard that maintains system variables in static RAM. It

also supplies a real-time clock that keeps track of the date, day and time.
CMOS Setup is typically accessible by entering a specific sequence of
keystrokes during the POST at system start-up.
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Abbreviation of complementary metal oxide semiconductor. Pronounced
see-moss, CMOS is a widely used type of semiconductor. CMOS
semiconductors use both NMOS (negative polarity) and PMOS (positive
polarity) circuits. Since only one of the circuit types is on at any given time,
CMOS chips require less power than chips using just one type of
transistor. This makes them particularly attractive for use in battery-
powered devices, such as portable computers. ...
www.5starsupport.com/glossary/c.htm
Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor: one of the two main types of
image sensors used in digital cameras. Its basic function is the same as
that of a CCD. CMOS sensors are currently found in only a handful of
digital cameras.
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Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor.
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A type of chip able to operate with a tiny trickle of electricity from a battery.
The term also refers to the contents of a CMOS chip on the motherboard,
which holds information about the system and its peripherals even while
the system is turned off. CMOS stands for Complementary Metal Oxide
Substrate.
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Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor. Technology employing
integrated field-effect transistors in a complementary symmetry
arrangement, which simulates "Push/Pull" operation because of the
placement of opposing-polarity devices (p-channel and n-channel FETs).
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are more complex versions of mortgage-backed bonds. Although they are
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Complimentary Metal Oxide Semiconductor. Used in some digicams
instead of CCDs because they have low power requirements and are less
expensive.
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Complimentary Metal Oxide Semiconductor. A semiconductor process
technology for making chips. Most personal computer and consumer
electronics chips are some variant of CMOS. Other semicondcutor
technologies include BiCMOS and GaAs (Gallium Arsenide). CMOS is
also used to refer a permanent 64 byte piece of CMOS RAM on IBM
Personal Computer (PC) compatible computers that contains various
parameters used by the PC BIOS, Basic Input Output System.
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Complementary metal oxide semiconductor. CMOS is the semiconductor
technology that is currently used for manufacturing processors and
memories. While other technologies (silicon-germanium and gallium-
arsenide) can support higher clock rates, their higher cost and lower
integration levels have precluded their successful use in supercomputers.
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(Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductors) are chips that hold the
basic start-up information for the BIOS.
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Complementary metal oxide semiconductor. A CMOS device is formed by
the combination of a PMOS (p-type-channel metal oxide semiconductor
device) with an NMOS (n-type-channel metal oxide semiconductor device.
See planar devices for definitions of p- and n-type semiconductors.
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(Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor) An advanced IC
manufacturing process technology characterized by high integration, low
cost, low power and high performance. CMOS is the preferred process for
today's high density ICs.
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Abbreviation for Complimentary Metal Oxide Semiconductor. A battery-
powered chip in computers that preserves basic data about system' s
hardware.
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A combination of an N-channel and a P-channel MOSFET in a single
switching circuit. This circuit features very low power dissipation and the
effective elimination of an external load resistor. The device responds to a
digital pulse at its input by turning one section of the device ON and the
other OFF, causing the turned OFF section to act as its high-resistance
load. When the input pulse reverts to zero, the state of the two sections of
the device are reversed.
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One of two types of technologies used to manufacture microchips the
other type is TTL, or transistor-transistor logic chips). CMOS chips require
less electricity, hold data longer after the electricity is turned off, are lower
and produce less heat than TTL chips. The configuration or setup chip is a
CMOS chip.
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The integrated circuitry having both digital and analog circuits fabricated
on the same substrate allowing for controlling ASIC technology to be
embedded into the chip design. Commonly used in computer designs for
controllers, recently light sensitive designs have been produced. Unlike
CCD they use less power, but are more prone to problem noise and low
temperature failures.
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Semiconductor manufacturing technology in which a silicon wafer is
etched with small circuits that allow for signal processing. This technology
is used in FPA manufacture and is integrated in most of today's IR
imaging systems.
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Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor (now you can see why it is
abbreviated) Another imaging system used by digital cameras. These
produce lower amounts of power consumption, but are not as popular as
the CCD sensors used in most digital SLR's
www.all-things-photography.com/digital-dictionary.html
Complementary metal-oxide semiconductor. A type of integrated circuit
noted for its extremely low power consumption.
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An integrated circuit that uses both PMOS and NMOS devices on the
same substrate, resulting in extremely low power dissipation.
www.marktechopto.com/engineering/glossary.cfm
Complimentary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor. This is one of two
technologies used to produce or manufacture microchips. The other is
TTL or Transistor Transistor Logic. Although CMOS is a little slower and
much more susceptible to ESD or static electricity, it uses less power and
generates a lot less heat and has replaced the bulkier chips in PCs. All of
today's CPUs and memory chips are CMOS chips. ...
www.pccomputernotes.com/pcterms/glossaryc.htm
Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor. More commonly, the name
of a class of low-power integrated circuits operating at discrete levels of 0
and +V volts. Unlike TTL, CMOS circuitry is capable of operating at levels
higher than +5 volts, thus enhancing noise immunity. Typically, 0 volts is
defined as logic level 0, +V volts as logic level 1 (these definitions may be
reversed). ...
www.4pi.com/teksupport/Rev10online/manual/47-glossary.htm
Complementary Metal Oxide on Silicon. The semiconductor technology
that is most commonly used to manufacture digital integrated circuits such
as microprocessors and memories.
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CMOS is a type of memory. CMOS stands for complementary metal-
oxide semiconductor, describing the physical arrangement of cells within
the memory device. On a standard PC motherboard, CMOS is used to
hold data that is accessed by BIOS Setup. The CMOS memory is
maintained when the system is off by a battery backup.
www.mcsx.co.uk/articles/glossary.htm
CMOS (pronounced "see-moss"), which stands for complementary metal-
oxide-semiconductor, is a major class of integrated circuits. CMOS chips
include microprocessor, microcontroller, static RAM, and other digital logic
circuits. The central characteristic of the technology is that it only uses
significant power when its transistors are switching between on and off
states. Consequently, CMOS devices use little power and do not produce
as much heat as other forms of logic. ...
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