My 7400 series logic parts drawer is a bit empty - at least of useful 
stuff, so I'm going to replenish it.....   And since I can't find a good 
assortment anywhere - most of them contain mostly the junk parts I 
already have... I figured I'd just start my own assortment.   Plus, I'm 
starting to do surface mount here and there and am thinking along that 
line as well.

I've got my favorites of the 74' series, and I'd love to hear what 
others on the list like to keep around.  Think of this as the 74 series 
version of the famous "what PIC should I stock" question.

(And for brevity, I'm skipping the family - I'm planning on stocking HC 
and HCT's of each type, unless someone has a good suggestion as to why 
some other family would be useful).

My goal with this is to end up with a list of things I am likely to want 
when designing a modern one-off digital circuit, probably with a PIC 
involved.

My (very small) list so far goes like:

7400 - Quad NAND
7404 - Hex Inverter
7414 - Schmitt Trigger Inverter
74137 - 8 output Demux w/latch
74151 - 8 input Mux
74165 - Shift Register - Parallel In
74221 - Mono Mult. Schmitt Trigger.
74540 - Inverting Octal Buffer/Line Driver, with output pins all on the 
same side.
74541 - Noninverting Version of 540
74595 - Shift Register - Parallel Out

There are some I've specifically excluded, but would like to know 
opinions on these exclusions:

All the various AND, OR, XOR, multiple-in gates, etc.   After all, you 
have a 7400, what else do you need?

7447, BCD to 7 Segment - When was the last time you drove a 7 segment 
display this way?

74240, 241, 244 - I prefer the 540 and 541, since I'm currently

Counters.

Flip Flops and generic latches.

So, what did I miss?

-forrest




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