CMOS Buffering Question

[Ken Stone]

>
>Hello All,
>
>I am in the process of designing a pulse programmer.  It's basically a CMOS
>counter IC whose outputs go to individual jacks and are routed to trigger
>events, such as advancing a sequencer, firing and ADSR, etc...
>
>What I'd like your opinions on is what is the simplest way to buffer the
>outputs, ie, protect them from the outside world?

Use an opamp or a line driver such as the 1488. I have used CMOS outputs and
find they are too unstable with load variations if you use them as a CV
level, which you will find is more often than you were expecting.  I haven't
tried the line drivers myself yet, but plan to in the near future.

Ken
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