Re: OT - TTL Circuit: Pullup vs Supply

From: John Robertson <pinball_at_telus.net>
Date: Wed Sep 06 2006 - 20:52:18 EDT

My ancient "Designing with TTL" (1971!) recommends tieing unused
inputs to used inputs...I seem to recall that the best termination is
tied to Vcc.

John :-#)#

At 6:10 PM -0600 9/6/06, Jess Askey wrote:
>can anyone explain what any pro's or con's there might be on tying
>static input pins on a TTL device 'high' through a pull-up resistor
>vs straight to the +5V supply? Im working on laying out a ASIC
>replacement PCB and I had the board designed with pull-up resistors
>but tracing them is becoming a PITA so I thought about just tying
>them to the +5V rail as an alternative.
>---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>** Unsubscribe, subscribe, or view the archives at http://www.vectorlist.org
>** Please direct other questions, comments, or problems to chris@westnet.com

---------------------------------------------------------------------------
** Unsubscribe, subscribe, or view the archives at http://www.vectorlist.org
** Please direct other questions, comments, or problems to chris@westnet.com
Received on Wed Sep 6 20:52:38 2006

This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.8 : Wed Sep 06 2006 - 22:50:00 EDT