Question for 74LS00

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georgiosSkod

Joined Nov 20, 2021
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From the last few posts, I am able to understand the circuit with floating inputs. However I am not sure on how the absence of an input doesn't allow current flow from the base to the emitter.
In the inverter example, the impression I got is that the diagram would look like this:
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In that case current from the emitter to ground should still be allowed, right?
 

LesJones

Joined Jan 8, 2017
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With nothing connected to the input there is nowhere for emitter current to flow. The diode on the input will not conduct with the cathode connected to positive. (Via the 4k resistor and base emitter junction of the transistor.) Current from the 4K resistor flows through the base collector junction (Which behaves like a diode. ) and causes the second transistor to conduct.

Les.
 

MrChips

Joined Oct 2, 2009
30,714
A simple way of looking at it is to analyze a diode-resistor logic AND gate.

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Logic output is LOW when A or B is tied to ground (OR gate for NEGATIVE LOGIC).
Logic output is HIGH when both A and B have HIGH inputs (or not connected).
 

KeithWalker

Joined Jul 10, 2017
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From the last few posts, I am able to understand the circuit with floating inputs. However I am not sure on how the absence of an input doesn't allow current flow from the base to the emitter.
In the inverter example, the impression I got is that the diagram would look like this:
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In that case current from the emitter to ground should still be allowed, right?
Papabravo answered this question in post #9. Why do you keep asking the same question?
 
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