PMOS as pullup & NMOS as pull down. why?

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Arvind
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PMOS as pullup & NMOS as pull down. why?

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why PMOS is used as pullup device and NMOS is used as pull down device?
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Re: PMOS as pullup & NMOS as pull down. why?

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NMOS can pull-down output to 0V but it can pull-up maximum to VDD-Vtn. So it is bad-1 and good-0. PMOS can pull-up output to VDD but it can pull-down to Vtp. So it is bad-0 but good-1 where Vtn,Vtp are threshold voltage for NMOS and PMOS respectively. Also check below link.

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