{"id":2461,"date":"2016-02-11T11:29:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-11T00:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2016\/02\/11\/life-in-the-fast-lane-potato-semiconductor-chips\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T13:20:32","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T03:20:32","slug":"life-in-the-fast-lane-potato-semiconductor-chips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2016\/02\/11\/life-in-the-fast-lane-potato-semiconductor-chips\/","title":{"rendered":"Life in the Fast Lane:  Potato Semiconductor Chips"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/PotatoSemi.gif\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"84\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/PotatoSemi.gif\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p> <b>Even I, with my luddite tendencies and analog preferences, have recently bumped up against the speed limit of 74 series logic chips. The Si5351 chip in the I and Q VFO for my phasing receiver will run up to 160 MHz. But the 74 series inverters and flip flops that I have attached to the output don&#8217;t seem to want to go beyond about 120 MHz. Our old friend Thomas LA3PNA tells us how to break this speed limit: <\/b><br \/> <b><br \/><\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.potatosemi.com\/\"><b>http:\/\/www.potatosemi.com\/<\/b><\/a> <\/p>\n<p> <b>Be sure to go their &#8220;Milestones of 74 Series Logic&#8221; Page. <\/b><br \/> <b><br \/><\/b> <b>I like their explanation of the brand name:<\/b>  <\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/PotatoWhy.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/PotatoWhy.jpg\" width=\"298\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even I, with my luddite tendencies and analog preferences, have recently bumped up against the speed limit of 74 series logic chips. The Si5351 chip in the I and Q VFO for my phasing receiver will run up to 160 MHz. But the 74 series inverters and flip flops that I have attached to the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2016\/02\/11\/life-in-the-fast-lane-potato-semiconductor-chips\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Life in the Fast Lane:  Potato Semiconductor Chips&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2462,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[142,359,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-digital-logic","category-ics","category-si5351"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2461"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2464,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2461\/revisions\/2464"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}