David Riley <fraveydank at gmail.com> writes:
The 74HCU04 datasheet (the Philips/NXP one, anyway)
has an application
circuit for it as a "poor man's amp", running it as an inverting
amplifier.
Fairchild have an app note with further examples of this sort of thing:
http://www.fairchildsemi.com/an/AN/AN-88.pdf
Of course, it's always possible to take a good idea too far:
http://www.p-albatross.net/kousaku-2003.htm
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