Digital Electronics Fundamentals for the User: A Comparison of Logic Families

John W. Wentworth

Inasmuch as digital logic and digital circuitry are becoming an increasingly important part of the professional engineer's work — both in motion-picture and in television engineering, the author has undertaken to write a series of tutorials on the subject. Basic logic gates and applications have already been discussed without going into signal processing, and in this Part Two he discusses the major properties of several “families” of logic devices. Families covered include: DCTL, RTL, DTL, TTL, CMOS, ECL and I2L. Technological advances are coming so fast — particularly for the last four of these families — that it behooves the engineer to have a sure grasp of these principles.

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Published
1977-09
Content type
Original Research
DOI
10.5594/J06763