...definition for cmos battery?

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CMOS, 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. CMOS also allows a high density of logic functions on a chip. The word "complementary" refers to the fact that the design uses pairs of transistors for logic functions, only one of which is switched on at any time. The phrase "metal-oxide-semiconductor" is a reference to the nature of the fabrication process originally used to build CMOS chips. That process created field effect transistors having a metal gate electrode placed on top of an oxide insulator, which in turn is on top of a semiconductor material. Instead of metal, today the gate electrodes are almost always made from a different material, polysilicon, but the name CMOS nevertheless continues to be used for the modern descendants of the original process. (See also MOSFET.) A chip with a large number of CMOS transistors packed tightly together is sometimes known as CHMOS (for "Complementary High-density metal-oxide-semiconductor").

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Question by damian
Submitted on 10/17/2003
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What is the definition for cmos battery?

Answer by Joeest1986
Submitted on 3/19/2004
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CMOS (complementary metal oxide semiconductor) are used widely amongst computers and portable computers because they require only a small amount of energy. CMOS is an efficient way of storing the date, time, system setup and other small functions. They are used at the start of a boot process in a computer system, CMOS conductors use NMOS and PMOS circuits. Only one of the two circuit types can be on at once so less power is need to perform its tasks.

Answer by bubbles
Submitted on 12/14/2004
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well what do you compute space ace well you know x and y is 3 thats all Iam saying.Kiss Rules

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Submitted on 7/29/2005
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cmos and Hard disk

Answer by adewale
Submitted on 9/16/2005
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CMOS and it's function

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define the words cmos battery ,modem motherboard, heat sink, boot sector, scsi, computer interrupt

Answer by prof_sweeney
Submitted on 6/20/2007
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CMOS is also derived from Configuration Memory Operating System

Answer by SWEETCLARAC
Submitted on 7/18/2007
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WHY IS CMOS BATTERY NECESSARY IN A COMPUTER SYSTEM

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