Philips Semiconductors now offers the smallest single gate 5V logic
family available, PicoGate Logic. Consisting of single gate functions
packaged in a 5 pin SOT353 package, PicoGate Logic reduces
board space requirements 10 times over the conventional 14 pin SO
package.
Driven by applications with a very small circuit board mounting area,
the PicoGate Logic family offers the most popular logic functions for
space-constrained systems such as cellular phones, pagers, and
portable consumer products (CD players, VCR’s, cameras, hard
disks, notebook computers, PC cards, CD ROM’s, and Personal
Digital Assistants). They can also be used as simple glue/repair
logic to implement last minute design changes or to eliminate
dependence on intricate line layout patterns and simplify routing.
Philips Semiconductors offers PicoGate Logic in both the HC and
HCT technologies. The package used is a major breakthrough in IC
packaging concepts, using the same package as leading edge
discrete semiconductor components. Space savings can be
compared in Figure 1.