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ANYGATE IN A STORM

by Tom Cantrell

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As you can see from Figure 1, under-the-hood AnyGate boils down to a two-input multiplexer.

Note that the true pin of a pair is internally pulled down, and the complement pin is biased halfway between V_CC (2.3 to 5.7 V) and ground with a voltage divider (see Figure 1). Leaving both pins open establishes a 0 input, and connecting the true pin to V_CC and leaving the complement pin open establishes a 1 input.

Figure 1ýAnyGate has 10 pins and almost no waiting.

Although it is becoming a bit of a lost art in these days of synthesized HDL Systems-on-Chips, old-timers will recall that you can do the Boolean boogie with a complementary 2:1 mux (see Figure 2) and come up with just about, dare I say, any gate.

Figure 2ýAnyGate isnýt a whopper of a chip, but you can still wire it your way.

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