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Logic Family Report

Logic families are sets of chips that implement logical functions using the same transistors, voltage levels, and power supplies. They vary in speed, power consumption, and voltages. To connect the outputs and inputs of different logic circuits, they must have compatible electrical characteristics. This is the concept of a logic family - its members have similar characteristics. There are several types of logic families classified by their electronic components, such as bipolar, CMOS, TTL, and ECL families. Each family is further divided into subfamilies to improve its performance based on variations in key parameters.

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Logic Family Report

Logic families are sets of chips that implement logical functions using the same transistors, voltage levels, and power supplies. They vary in speed, power consumption, and voltages. To connect the outputs and inputs of different logic circuits, they must have compatible electrical characteristics. This is the concept of a logic family - its members have similar characteristics. There are several types of logic families classified by their electronic components, such as bipolar, CMOS, TTL, and ECL families. Each family is further divided into subfamilies to improve its performance based on variations in key parameters.

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LOGIC FAMILIES

1.Introduction
Logic families are sets of chips that may implement different logical functions but use the
same type of transistors and voltage levels for logical levels and for the power supplies.
These families vary by speed, power consumption, voltage & current levels. A "logic family"
may also refer to a set of techniques used to implement logic within VLSI integrated circuits
such as central processors, memories, or other complex functions. Some such logic families
use static techniques to minimize design complexity. Other such logic families, such as
domino logic, use clocked dynamic techniques to minimize size, power consumption and
delay.
Significance of the logic families comes into picture when there is a requirement of building
a complete system. For constructing any complex digital system, all digital circuits (ICs) used
in the design process should be from same logic family and for the expansion of the system,
it is necessary to connect different logic circuits together.
In order to connect the output of one logic circuit to the input of another logic circuit, one
must have circuit with similar characteristics. If the electrical IO characteristics of these
logic circuits are not similar, there is a need to design an interfacing circuit to maintain the
compatibility of digital logic ICs. This interfacing circuit will match the electrical
characteristics of the logic circuits. This ensures the compatibility for proper operation of
the circuit. This is the key concept behind family for logic circuits. In a logic family, the family
members have similar electrical characteristics. Digital logic circuit has to be designed
considering these compatibilities of different logic families in terms of different
characteristics and parameters associated with the families.

2.Types of logic families


The logic family is designed by considering the basic electronic components such as resistors, diodes,
transistors, and MOSFET; or combinations of any of these components. Accordingly, logic families
are classified as follows:

Logic families

Unipolar
Bipolar

PMOS NMOS CMOS Saturated Non-Saturated

TTL DTL RTL Emitter


Schottky
Coupled
TTL
logic
Out of the logic families mentioned above, DL, RTL and DTL are not very useful due to some
inherent disadvantages while TTL, ECL and CMOS are widely used in many digital circuit
design applications.
Each logic family is further classified based on the significant variation in the key
parameters. This helps in improving the performance of that logic family. For example, TTL
logic family has subfamilies such as low power TTL, Schottky TTL etc.

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