Toshiba and Fairchild also make "microgate" parts as well. I used my
first Toshiba parts about 5 years ago and have since started using the
TI and Fairchild parts also. They're extremely handy in tight SMD
layouts where you only need a gate or two.

One thing to watch out for is many of the devices only have about half
the output drive current capability as their HC or AHC counterparts
-- probably die size or package power handling issues, I'm guessing.

BTW, I recently had to add a bi-color SMD LED to a circuit that
previously was a single LED and had very little room for any external
components. I thought about it and scribbled several circuit ideas for
a few days and came up with the *exact* same circuit shown below. I used
a SO14 74HC14 though, I had six circuits to upgrade and that worked out
to the least space required.

Matt Pobursky
Maximum Performance Systems

On Fri, 23 Apr 2004 16:29:23 -0700, Shawn Wilton wrote:
> Here you go:  http://www-s.ti.com/cgi-bin/sc/family3.cgi?family=INVERTERS
>
> Byron A Jeff wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 05:14:50PM +0100, Michael Rigby-Jones wrote:
> >
> >>Even easier is to drive one side of the LED and a CMOS inverter input with
> >>the PIC pin, and the other side of the LED with the inverter output.  The
> >>above solution may be ok, but you are limiting your forward voltage to
> >>2.5volts for a 5v supply rail which may be marginal for some LED's
> >>
> >>       |\
> >>---+    +-----+ |0-------------+
> >>  |    |     |/               |
> >>  |    |                      |
> >>  |----+----+-|>|-+---/\/\/---+
> >>  |         |     |
> >>  |         +-|<|-+
> >>PIC|          LED
> >>  |
> >>---+
> >>
> >>
> >>Regards
> >>
> >>Mike
> >
> >
> > The only problem I see is packaging. You can get opamps two in a 8 pin package
> > no problem. Not sure about inverters.

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