On Aug 20, 2015, at 3:40 PM, Eric Smith <spacewar
at gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 10:54 AM, Paul Koning <paulkoning at comcast.net> wrote:
Ok, but when you refer to "drive
strength" I assumed you were talking about current, not voltage. By that measure
totem pole outputs are pretty much symmetrical.
Not for true (bipolar) TTL. See the specs for the 7400, 74LS00, 74S00:
http://www.ti.com/lit/ds/symlink/sn74ls00.pdf
Ioh(max) Iol(max)
7400 -0.4 16
74LS00 -0.4 8
74S00 -1 20
CMOS for comparison:
http://www.ti.com/lit/ds/symlink/sn74hct00.pdf
http://www.ti.com/lit/ds/symlink/sn74act00.pdf
Ioh(max) Iol(max)
74HCT00 -4 4
74ACT00 -24 24
Ok, clearly my memory was faulty. Thanks for the corrections.
paul