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EMITTER COUPLED LOGIC

EMITTER COUPLED LOGIC

Emitter-coupled logic is the fastest of all digital logic families. It was invented by Hannon S. Yourke in the year 1956 at IBM. It is also called as current mode logic. The design of ECL circuit consists of transistors and resistors.

By preventing the transistor from entering into saturation, the high-speed operation is achieved in ECL logic family. Very small voltage swing is necessary to switch between the two different voltage levels. This cannot be achieved in transistor transistor logic, as the transistors enter into saturation mode, while in operation.

Emitter-coupled logic family offers an incredible propagation delay of 1ns. The delay is more reduced in the latest ECL families.