74LS132 - Quad 2-Input Schmitt Trigger

74LS132 - Quad 2-Input Schmitt Trigger NAND Gate

General Description

The SN54/74LS132 contains four 2-Input NAND Gates which accept standard TTL input signals and provide standard TTL output levels. They are capable of transforming slowly changing input signals into sharply defined, jitterfree output signals. Additionally, they have greater noise margin than conventional NAND Gates. 

Each circuit contains a 2-input Schmitt trigger followed by a Darlington level shifter and a phase splitter driving a TTL totem pole output. The Schmitt trigger uses positive feedback to effectively speed-up slow input transitions, and provide different input threshold voltages for positive and negative-going transitions. This hysteresis between the positive-going and negative-going input thresholds (typically 800 mV) is determined internally by resistor ratios and is essentially insensitive to temperature and supply voltage variations. As long as one input remains at a more positive voltage than VT+ (MAX), the gate will respond to the transitions of the other input.

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