74LVTH244MTC

Low-Voltage Octal Buffer/Line Driver with 3-State Outputs manufactured by Fairchild (onsemi). This 20-pin low-voltage BiCMOS (LVTH) component integrates eight independent non-inverting digital drivers arranged into two separate 4-bit functional blocks governed by active-low output-enable lines. It functions by boosting weak signals from a central microcomputer bus to cleanly navigate high-capacitance system pathways while allowing 3-state logic to float the outputs in high-impedance mode when disabled to prevent bus contention. It is widely implemented as a data line isolator, an address bus reinforcer, or an expansion card interface module in low-power industrial embedded platforms. (Industry Equals: Fairchild 74LVTH244MTC, Texas Instruments SN74LVTH244PWR, NXP 74LVTH244PW, Toshiba TC74LVTH244FT, onsemi MC74LVTH244MNTWG, STMicroelectronics 74LVTH244TTR).