Difference between a normal invertor and a hex invertor?

A hex inverter just means there are six inverters in one package. See. for example:

The hex inverter was first used in Salem to remove spells cast on students that didn't read the books before writing their reports.

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Maybe you have to read Harry Potter? Hex inverters are bewitched normal ones :)

petrus bitbyter

Real useful, Petrus. If you don't know, or don't want to give, a useful answer, why bother responding at all?

An inverter is just that - ONE inverter. It's rather unusual to find such a beast these days, though, since multiple inverters are commonly used in any given circuit.

A hex inverter is six (hence the "hex") inverters stuffed into one package, each one of them operating independent of the other five in the package, but all of them sharing common power and ground connections.

Think of it as being about the same as buying "a beer" or "a six-pack of beer". Sort of a "convenience pack".

And nobody mentioned that the other inverter in the O.P.'s question might be a DC to AC power inverter....tisk tisk.

At least in my experience over the past five years or so, single gate ICs (the little SOT23-5 and smaller derivatives, e.g., 7CS04) are *more* common than finding a 74xx04 on a PCB... the single gate ICs are used where some really simply logic is needed, whereas anything that starts to require more than a couple ends up in a (C)PLD or FPGA.

What I want to know is what is an "invertor". Is it a person who inverts, or uses an inverter?

Tim

might

One type is a logic gate that provides the NOT function while the other takes low voltage DC as an input and produces high voltage AC as an output.

No, those are both inverters to my knowledge.

Looks like "invertor" is "the muscle which turns the feet inward". Perhaps hexapeds (if that's the correct way to put it; "six-legged") would have hex invertors, then.

Tim

I disagree with your position completely. A rousing round of Bait the Lazy Student is always appreciated. It's so much more amusing than simply saying "Pay attention in class and do your own homework".