Functional Description
• 3-to-8 Line Decoder

General
The 74VHC238FT is an advanced high speed CMOS 3-to-8 DECODER fabricated with silicon gate C2MOS
technology.
It achieves the high speed operation similar to equivalent Bipolar Schottky TTL while maintaining the CMOS
low power dissipation.
When the device is enabled, 3 Binary Select inputs (A, B and C) determine which one of the outputs (Y0-Y7) will
go High.
When enable input G1 is held low or either G2A or G2B is held high, decoding function is inhibited and all outputs
go Low.
G1, G2A and G2B inputs are provided to ease cascade connection and for use as an address decoder for memory
systems.
An input protection circuit ensures that 0 to 5.5 V can be applied to the input pins without regard to the supply
voltage. This device can be used to interface 5 to 3 V systems and two supply systems such as battery back up.
This circuit prevents device destruction due to mismatched supply and input voltages.

Features
(1) AEC-Q100 (Rev. H) (Note 1)
(2) Wide operating temperature: Topr = -40 to 125 
(3) High speed: tpd = 5.5 ns (typ.) at VCC = 5 V
(4) Low power dissipation: ICC = 4.0 μA (max) at Ta = 25 
(5) High noise immunity: VNIH = VNIL = 28 % VCC (min)
(6) Power down protection is provided on all inputs.
(7) Balanced propagation delays: tPLH ≈ tPHL
(8) Wide operating voltage range: VCC(opr) = 2.0 V to 5.5 V
(9) Pin and function compatible with 74 series(AC/HC/AHC/LV etc.)238 type.