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How did 5 volts get to be the standard?
In electronics and automotive electronics 5 volts seems to be the standard. I am curious as to how this was made the standard. -- Tekkie |
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How did 5 volts get to be the standard?
On Monday, January 21, 2019 at 2:36:13 PM UTC-5, Tekkie® wrote:
In electronics and automotive electronics 5 volts seems to be the standard. I am curious as to how this was made the standard. -- Tekkie 5V was the first standard for digital logic going back to the 60s. It's still common for designs that are not battery powered and that need very low power. How exactly they picked 5, IDK. But transistors can work with just a couple volts, some logic designs had two transistors stacked one on top of the other, so you'd need about twice the minimum. Next consideration, you need enough range in a digital design to reliably distinguish between a logic level of one and zero. You'd also need that to be agreed on so that chips from one supplier would work with chips from other suppliers. Zero wound up being defined as less than .8V, you needed some separation between that and whatever voltage would be a one. One I think was above 2.5V and if the logic wasn't malfunctioning you couldn't get a voltage in between. So, with a one being above 2.5V and needing some internal headroom, 5V is a logical, convenient choice. Today with improvements, smaller transistors, and the need for low ultra low power in mobile devices, logic families at 3V and 1.8 v are being used for those applications. Even desktop CPUs are running down at 3V and below, I think. This of course is for digital logic electronics. For analog, all kinds of voltages have been used. |
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How did 5 volts get to be the standard?
On Mon, 21 Jan 2019 14:36:31 -0500, Tekkie®
wrote: In electronics and automotive electronics 5 volts seems to be the standard. I am curious as to how this was made the standard. The 5 volt standard goes WAY back to TTL logic As for the origins of 5V/TTL, that was a set of design tradeoffs. If you find a schematic of a TTL gate, you'll notice that it needs at least 3 diode drops internally, plus various resistor drops. What that doesn't tell you is the choice of reference currents (1.6 mA for a low input) which was in part determined by the current levels required to produce acceptable switching speeds. These current levels in turn set limits on the internal resistor values, and the voltages needed to feed them. You also need to factor in the state of semiconductor fab capability - the first TTL circuits were at the edge of what could be reliably produced. Imagine - 20 to 100 gates on a chip! That's (gulp) hundreds of transistors, with the masks all laid out by hand. All of this, including power dissipation limits, resulted in the standard TTL supply voltage spec of 4.75 to 5.25 volts. As it turned out, this was an adequately wide margin for practical systems, and the speed (10 - 20 MHz) was adequate for a wide range of applications. So TTL became king. Even then, if you wanted faster speed there were other families available, like 74S and ECL, but those puppies were even bigger power hogs than TTL. Go look up the construction techniques for the first Cray computers |
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How did 5 volts get to be the standard?
"Clare Snyder" wrote in message ... On Mon, 21 Jan 2019 14:36:31 -0500, Tekkie® wrote: In electronics and automotive electronics 5 volts seems to be the standard. I am curious as to how this was made the standard. The 5 volt standard goes WAY back to TTL logic To well before that with RTL and DTL in fact. As for the origins of 5V/TTL, that was a set of design tradeoffs. If you find a schematic of a TTL gate, you'll notice that it needs at least 3 diode drops internally, plus various resistor drops. What that doesn't tell you is the choice of reference currents (1.6 mA for a low input) which was in part determined by the current levels required to produce acceptable switching speeds. These current levels in turn set limits on the internal resistor values, and the voltages needed to feed them. You also need to factor in the state of semiconductor fab capability - the first TTL circuits were at the edge of what could be reliably produced. Imagine - 20 to 100 gates on a chip! That's (gulp) hundreds of transistors, with the masks all laid out by hand. All of this, including power dissipation limits, resulted in the standard TTL supply voltage spec of 4.75 to 5.25 volts. As it turned out, this was an adequately wide margin for practical systems, and the speed (10 - 20 MHz) was adequate for a wide range of applications. So TTL became king. Even then, if you wanted faster speed there were other families available, like 74S and ECL, but those puppies were even bigger power hogs than TTL. Go look up the construction techniques for the first Cray computers |
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More Heavy Trolling by Senile Nym-Shifting Rot Speed
On Tue, 22 Jan 2019 09:22:33 +1100, Samsungo, better known as cantankerous
trolling senile geezer Rot Speed, wrote: In electronics and automotive electronics 5 volts seems to be the standard. I am curious as to how this was made the standard. The 5 volt standard goes WAY back to TTL logic To well before that with RTL and DTL in fact. It can't have been before you were born, you 85-year-old senile pest. Or can it? BG -- FredXX to Rot Speed: "You are still an idiot and an embarrassment to your country. No wonder we shippe the likes of you out of the British Isles. Perhaps stupidity and criminality is inherited after all?" Message-ID: |
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How did 5 volts get to be the standard?
On Mon, 21 Jan 2019 12:24:20 -0800 (PST), trader_4
wrote: On Monday, January 21, 2019 at 2:36:13 PM UTC-5, Tekkie® wrote: In electronics and automotive electronics 5 volts seems to be the standard. I am curious as to how this was made the standard. -- Tekkie 5V was the first standard for digital logic going back to the 60s. It's still common for designs that are not battery powered and that need very low power. How exactly they picked 5, IDK. But transistors can work with just a couple volts, some logic designs had two transistors stacked one on top of the other, so you'd need about twice the minimum. Next consideration, you need enough range in a digital design to reliably distinguish between a logic level of one and zero. You'd also need that to be agreed on so that chips from one supplier would work with chips from other suppliers. Zero wound up being defined as less than .8V, you needed some separation between that and whatever voltage would be a one. One I think was above 2.5V and if the logic wasn't malfunctioning you couldn't get a voltage in between. So, with a one being above 2.5V and needing some internal headroom, 5V is a logical, convenient choice. Today with improvements, smaller transistors, and the need for low ultra low power in mobile devices, logic families at 3V and 1.8 v are being used for those applications. Even desktop CPUs are running down at 3V and below, I think. This of course is for digital logic electronics. For analog, all kinds of voltages have been used. Yup 5v was what the original TTL ran on and those were the most common IC chips in the beginning. CMOS is more forgiving and will run on a pretty wide range of voltages. These days I suspect 5v was chosen because that is what you get from a USB port and they are everywhere. Before USB became the "go to" charging port 12v was getting pretty popular and it still is for a lot of stuff. It is pretty much #2 in that coaxial power plug you see on wall warts. |
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How did 5 volts get to be the standard?
On Mon, 21 Jan 2019 16:23:49 -0500, Clare Snyder
wrote: On Mon, 21 Jan 2019 14:36:31 -0500, Tekkie® wrote: In electronics and automotive electronics 5 volts seems to be the standard. I am curious as to how this was made the standard. The 5 volt standard goes WAY back to TTL logic As for the origins of 5V/TTL, that was a set of design tradeoffs. If you find a schematic of a TTL gate, you'll notice that it needs at least 3 diode drops internally, plus various resistor drops. What that doesn't tell you is the choice of reference currents (1.6 mA for a low input) which was in part determined by the current levels required to produce acceptable switching speeds. These current levels in turn set limits on the internal resistor values, and the voltages needed to feed them. You also need to factor in the state of semiconductor fab capability - the first TTL circuits were at the edge of what could be reliably produced. Imagine - 20 to 100 gates on a chip! That's (gulp) hundreds of transistors, with the masks all laid out by hand. All of this, including power dissipation limits, resulted in the standard TTL supply voltage spec of 4.75 to 5.25 volts. As it turned out, this was an adequately wide margin for practical systems, and the speed (10 - 20 MHz) was adequate for a wide range of applications. So TTL became king. Even then, if you wanted faster speed there were other families available, like 74S and ECL, but those puppies were even bigger power hogs than TTL. Go look up the construction techniques for the first Cray computers IBM's high speed logic used +0.9 and +1.9 levels for a "0" and a "1" in the S/370 days when LSI "transistor logic" ICs were the thing. The power rails were 1.5v and 3v. Keeping the voltage down made switching faster and reduced power consumption but they were still power hogs compared to the CMOS that followed. You could easily have a 1.5v power supply running close to 100 amps. The big systems were water cooled. |
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How did 5 volts get to be the standard?
Tekkie® wrote:
In electronics and automotive electronics 5 volts seems to be the standard. I am curious as to how this was made the standard. Available chips I think. Previously every company had their own logic and different voltages, and positive or negative logic. There was DEC logic, Collins logic, Zerox logic, etc. There was also Dynamic logic. A one was a pulse, no steady state signals except no pulse a zero. One dandy machine I worked on had Audio, RF, TTL, MECL, the SRE. We called it Sorry. Greg |
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