On Fri, 17 Jul 2020 14:40:35 +0100, The Natural Philosopher declaimed the following:
Which is true for genuine Transistor-Transistor Logic (74xxx series) chips... CMOS chips nominally (I believe there is a 74xxx series of CMOS that may actually use TTL drive levels) use
Low 0V .. 33% VCC High 66% VCC .. VCC
Note that, in going from CMOS /to/ TTL, a 3.3V CMOS High still falls into the region of a 5V TTL High. You'd need a pretty long cable run to have a 3.3V High degrade to below the TTL High threshold (and a lot of leakage to bring a 0V driven Low above the TTL Low threshold). Can't speak for the other direction -- having something that drops 5V High to 3.3V CMOS might result in dropping 3.3V High below the CMOS threshold. If it is a proportional drop, maybe... 3.3V is 66% of 5V, and 66% of 3.3V is the threshold for CMOS High...
I don't believe one can even buy true TTL chips anymore. They are replaced with 74HCxxx series CMOS as I recall.
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