This xxxNNN convention was some European attempt to standardize the
various logic families in the 70s;
I think this came from JEDEC as a joint venture of Siemens, Philips, and
some other vendors).
The idea was basically to have the first letter to describe the logic
family, the second a temperature range or
a sub family (e.g. Z=noise immune logic with 12Vcc), the third a
functional category. The three digit number then
refers to the actual circuit. So, an FLH101 was a TTL (F) with
temperature range 0..70degC (L), and
combinational circuit (H). The number here refers to 4 totem pole NAND-2
gates -> so this is the well-known 7400.
J in the third place denotes some flip flop or counter, K is a monoflop,
L is a decoder (e.g. 74141, 7445, 7447).
I have to look up the complete convention in some old Siemens data
books.
I have at least one old Mullard (==Philips :-)) databook containing ICs
with these numbers. I'd be interested in seeing the coding, though, I
think I have soem 'FCH161' chips in the spares box...
More on this:
The above convention was named ProElectron standard or ProElectron naming
convention. It is still survivu?ng in European analog circuits used in
consumer products like TV sets.
I digged out an incomplete document which describes a bit of this:
This does not talk about the historic series like FL, or FC, or FZ, but
ProElectron is some starting point for that to look for them.
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