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The ALVC family

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PC100-compliant ALVC drivers
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Low-voltage one-stop shopping

Designers may find themselves confused trying to keep up with the industry's recent low-voltage logic announcements. With nine suppliers offering 10 3.3-V product lines, designers' frustration levels are growing in direct proportion with their collections of logic data books.

Fortunately, Texas Instruments offers a way out of the confusion with its one-stop shop for low-voltage logic. Providing a full portfolio of 3.3-V logic products in bipolar, CMOS and BiCMOS technologies, TI logic delivers the 3.3-V solutions demanded at every price-performance node. In addition, TI is committed to being the last major supplier in every logic family, ensuring that designers can rely on TI for innovative solutions far into the future.

TI's logic families comprehend competitive logic families throughout the industry. Among low-voltage logic, the ALVC family is well-suited for high-speed memory applications, including five devices specifically designed for the Intel PC100 standard. ALVC is the premier family for 3.3-V designs, offering more than 50 released Widebusª devices with more than 20 additional gates, octals and single-gate devices planned.

TI's portfolio of LVC logic delivers the ideal solution for most general-purpose 3.3-V designs. The family boasts more than 60 released functions in Widebus™ gates, octals and includes plans for single-gate devices.

The industry's first 3.3-V bus switch appeared with the CBTLV family introduction in 1997. TI plans to expand this low-voltage family to parallel the more than 30 devices available in the 5-V CBT family.

For mixed-voltage applications, the ALVT, LVT, LVC and LV families provide excellent price-performance solutions, with drives ranging from 12 to 64 mA and propagation delays from 2 to 13 ns. Product options that can simplify design include bus hold, live insertion, distributed power and ground pin configurations in Widebus packages, and series damping resistors.

Finally, TI's 5-V AHC, AC and HC families are also specified for 3.3-V applications.