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Decoder Cascading
■ Example: Design a 4-to-16 decoder using 74x128s (3-to-8 decoders)
74x138
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G1 G2A G2B A B C Y0 Y1 Y2 Y3 Y4 Y5 Y6 Y7 N0 N1 N2 R +5V U1 DEC0_L DEC1_L DEC2_L DEC3_L DEC4_L DEC5_L DEC6_L DEC7_L 74x138
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G1 G2A G2B A B C Y0 Y1 Y2 Y3 Y4 Y5 Y6 Y7 U2 DEC8_L DEC9_L DEC10_L DEC11_L DEC12_L DEC13_L DEC14_L DEC15_L N3 EN_L
■ Decoders can be cascaded hierarchically to decode larger code words
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More Cascading
5-to-32 decoder
N0 N1 N2 N4 EN2_L 74x138
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G1 G2A G2B A B C Y0 Y1 Y2 Y3 Y4 Y5 Y6 Y7 U2 DEC0_L DEC1_L DEC2_L DEC3_L DEC4_L DEC5_L DEC6_L DEC7_L 74x138
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G1 G2A G2B A B C Y0 Y1 Y2 Y3 Y4 Y5 Y6 Y7 U3 DEC8_L DEC9_L DEC10_L DEC11_L DEC12_L DEC13_L DEC14_L DEC15_L 74x138
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G1 G2A G2B A B C Y0 Y1 Y2 Y3 Y4 Y5 Y6 Y7 U4 DEC16_L DEC17_L DEC18_L DEC19_L DEC20_L DEC21_L DEC22_L DEC23_L 74x138
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G1 G2A G2B A B C Y0 Y1 Y2 Y3 Y4 Y5 Y6 Y7 U5 DEC24_L DEC25_L DEC26_L DEC27_L DEC28_L DEC29_L DEC30_L DEC31_L 74x139
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1G 1A 1B Y0 Y1 Y2 Y3 U1 EN0X7_L EN8X15_L EN16X23_L EN24X31_L EN1 N3 EN3_L