gEDA-dev: GAF wish list addition - complex boards having multiple logic families

Dan McMahill dan at mcmahill.net
Sun Sep 3 17:12:58 EDT 2006


Carlos Nieves Ónega wrote:
> El dom, 03-09-2006 a las 15:33 -0400, DJ Delorie escribió:
>> Would it be sufficient to save "level=5t" (5 volts TTL) or "3.3c" (3.3
>> volts CMOS) ?
> 
> What about HC, HCT, ECL, LVC and all the logic families out there?
> I can also have some HC with 3V supply, or even 2V7...

and with ECL, older ECL parts ran with VCC=0 and VEE=-5.2 volts.  But it 
wasn't that unusual to see them powered with VCC=5V and VEE=0.  That was 
my first exposure to the joys of implicit power pins....

I think it's going to be hard at best to come up with a foolproof scheme.

-Dan



More information about the geda-dev mailing list