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By using the theory of clipping voltage-switches, two kinds of master/slave nMOS quaternary flip-flops are designed. These flip-flops have the capability of two-input presetting and double-rail complementary outputs. It is shown that these flip-flops are effectively suitable to design nMOS quaternary sequential circuits by designing two examples of hexadecimal up-counter and decimal up-counter.
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Xia, Y., Wu, X. Design of nMOS quaternary flip-flops and their applications. J. of Electron.(China) 15, 347–356 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11767-998-0009-8
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