FEATURES

· Serial or parallel expansion without extra gating

· Magnitude comparison of any binary words

· Output capability: standard

· ICC category: MSI

GENERAL DESCRIPTION

The 74HC/HCT85 are high-speed Si-gate CMOS devices

and are pin compatible with low power Schottky TTL

(LSTTL). They are specified in compliance with JEDEC

standard no. 7A.

The 74HC/HCT85 are 4-bit magnitude comparators that

can be expanded to almost any length. They perform

comparison of two 4-bit binary, BCD or other monotonic

codes and present the three possible magnitude results at

the outputs (QA>B, QA=B and QA

weighted (A0 to A3 and B0 to B3), where A3 and B3 are the

most significant bits.

The operation of the “85” is described in the function table,

showing all possible logic conditions. The upper part of the

table describes the normal operation under all conditions

that will occur in a single device or in a series expansion

scheme. In the upper part of the table the three outputs are

mutually exclusive. In the lower part of the table, the

outputs reflect the feed forward conditions that exist in the

parallel expansion scheme.

For proper compare operation the expander inputs (IA>B,

IA=B and IA

connected as follows: IAB = = LOW and

IA=B = HIGH.

For words greater than 4-bits, units can be cascaded by

connecting outputs QAB and QA=B to the

corresponding inputs of the significant comparator.