2 Oct
2007
2 Oct
'07
12:37 p.m.
"Roy J. Tellason" wrote:
On Tuesday 02 October 2007 04:38, Al Kossow wrote:
I don't recall where I picked them up, but what I am referring to is indeed a
couple of databooks... I might have gotten them there, even. Maybe I just
need to dig into them further.
"UtilLogicII_Handbook_1968.pdf" from Al's bitsavers presents some internal
schematics.
Kind of interesting in that the family is a mixture of technologies: AND gate
inputs are current-*sinking* multi-emitter TTL style, N/OR gates inputs are
current-*sourcing* like RTL with a common limiting resistor but referred to in
the text as DTL with the diodes replaced with transistors. N/OR outputs are
totem-pole so they'll both source and sink current. AND gate outputs only have
a high-side transistor so they'll only source. If one stuck to AND-OR-NOT
combinatorics it was probably OK to design with.
I came across a small pile of unknown 60s-era SSI gold-ceramic ICs recently
(SG 2xx series) and popped the lid off one just for fun to see if I could
figure out what it was under a microscope (looks like a dual 4-input TTL or
DTL gate), then later found some mention of them in the cross-refs of an early
TI TTL databook.
I ran across some data in the pile of what I've
been collecting, and
there's some stuff there apparently by Signetics (?) referring to what
they're calling "Utilogic II" -- is this stuff RTL or what? It
doesn't
say. Dates are in the late 1960s, and it looks like it, but I figured
I'd ask in here...
Goggle finds only a few hits for utilogic,and is mostly a odd chip for
sale. I suspect more TTL rather than DTL. Ben.
look under http://bitsavers.org/pdf/signetics/_dataBooks/