# Questions tagged [nand]

Use this tag when referring to any circuit that uses NAND gate / NAND logic, or for asking questions relating to NAND gates.

111 questions
Filter by
Sorted by
Tagged with
50 views

### Wear leveling and supply of voltage

Does anyone know if a NAND flash device (e.g. microSD) has to be continuously supplied with energy for its wear leveling algorithms work as designed? Or, if it doesn't matter if the device is (safely) ...
48 views

### File system to use with NAND Flash and 32 bit microcontroller

I am searching for a file system, suitable for NAND flash memory chips. Currently I use a Micron 256MB SPI NAND flash memory where I write and read raw sensors data but without a file system and ...
43 views

### Can't read an entire page at once (NAND flash)

I am working for quite a while now with a GD5F1GQ4UCYIG from GigaDevice. The goal is to dump the content of the flash. To do so I use a BusPirate. The NAND flash itself is still attached to the board,...
76 views

### TTL Logic Gate Resistor Values

I've been teaching myself the basics of circuits for the last few months and have been enjoying going into chip schematics. I'm trying to understand why the resistor values are as they are. For ...
42 views

63 views

### CD4011BE (DUAL INPUT NAND GATE) not working

I am using my CD4011BE NAND Gate IC. I connected a 9V battery in the 14th pin. And grounded the 7th pin. Then I provided input in the first 2 pins. I took a 330 ohm resistor from the third pin and ...
197 views

### Is there an intuitive reason for why NAND gate is a universal gate?

Now I know the maths and logic to figure out that every boolean function can be expressed using only AND and NOT gates, which in turn can be expressed using only NAND gate and hence every boolean ...
122 views

### Problem with NAND gate in proteus

I was doing a simple logic circuit in proteus when i realised that something was going wrong. It looks like the NAND gate provides high voltage to its inputs from nowhere. No errors provided, but if ...
144 views

### momentary switch latching circuit

I'm very new at all this and hope you will have patients with me, I'm trying to use this circuit diagram to turn a momentary switch into a latching switch, I though it would be straightforward but ...
117 views

### Which input of NAND is preferred and why? [duplicate]

Let A and B be two inputs of the NAND gate. Say input A arrives at the NAND gate later than input B. To optimize delay of the two series NMOS inputs A and B which one would you place near to the ...
78 views

### Negative pluse generator does not reach 0V

I'm using an Arduino board to generate a 125KHz square wave signal to feed into this curcuit: simulate this circuit – Schematic created using CircuitLab So this is what I'm receiving from my ...
83 views

### Identifying this logic gate

Could somebody please explain the two logic gates with only the one input, A and B, respectively?? It is a NAND gate, with a box just before it. What is this box? Why only one input?
1k views

### More Fun with the CD4093 IC as Schmitt Trigger Oscillator. Any practical difference between circuit version with “Enable” pin and Without?

I built two Schmitt trigger oscillator circuits using the CD4093BE IC from Texas Instruments. The CD4093 is a quad NAND gate with Schmitt trigger inputs. You can find the datasheet here: http://www....
98 views

### Which pins are required when reading and writing NAND flash?

I plan on reading and probably writing NAND flash on some embedded devices or USB flash drives. I did not come across many examples for in circuit reading though I'd give that a try at first if ...
57 views

### Simplifying logic circuit [closed]

I've been trying to simplify a combinational circuit and wanted to know whether there was any simpler way of solving such questions. Do we have to find all the outputs and such or we can use a simpler ...
52 views

### Implementing with only NOR gates [duplicate]

I have an equation y = ab + cb' How would I implement this with only NOR Gates? Thanks
266 views

### Minimum number of NAND gates to implement f(x,y,z,w)=x(y+zw)+yz'

As the title states, given a function f(x,y,z,w)=x(y+zw)+yz', what are the minimum number of NAND gates you need to implement f? My first attempt at a solution was to draw a kmap to see if there was ...
66 views

### Acquire a “TIC” signal from a power meter

I'm trying to acquire the tic signal of a french power meter. From the datasheet available here of the TIC signal we can find out that the signal is (page 7/38): 6 Vrms +/- 10% at 50 kHz It comes ...
209 views

### Can I lower flash power consumption by pre-flashing all values to high?

I am designing an embedded system that will use either embedded flash memory or an SD card. The system must survive without much power and the estimated 30mA draw of an SD card sounds too high for me. ...
44 views

### NAND Simplified with xy + !x z

I've been trying to work on a few problems, though I'm not sure how to rewrite this a few circuits using only NAND/NOR --> an example is shown below; How am I able to rewrite only using NAND + NOR ...
76 views

### Determination of read/write lifespans of NAND drives

I check around and there are various numbers for different manufacturers solid state drives as read and write life terms. At the very fundamental level input/output speeds of these devices are pretty ...
134 views

### How can i make f(a,b,c) = $A \cdot B \cdot \overline C + A \cdot \overline B\cdot C$ using only XORs and NANDs?

i have this problem where i need to make the Logical Function represented by : f(A,B,C)= $A \cdot B \cdot \overline C + A \cdot \overline B\cdot C\$ using only XORs and NANDs The function was as ...
80 views

### How to know the size (W/L) for a circuit to source or sink a minimum of 4 times as much current as a minimum sized conventional inverter?

Consider the tri-state NAND below (i.e. if EN is high, output is NAND of A&B; if EN low, output is floating. Assume EN and ~EN always track). Show work. a) Label each transistor with a size which ...
53 views

### Low voltage form a NAND logic gate then the state is high

I've been trying to learn how to use logic gates. I wanted to use logic gate to bump digital signal from 3.3V MCU to a 5V. I took a T74LS38D1 and mocked the solution using two switches connected to 3....
41 views

### Implementing a simple logic equation

I need to do a lab that seemed like it was simple, but for some reason i cant get the right output for this function. its G(0)= T1T3'+T5T7'. These are data inputs.. I can only use NAND and NOR gates. ...
78 views

### MOSFET burn down due to droping logic level voltage [duplicate]

I made 2 PCB, one is a logic driver with NAND Schmitt trigger (74HC132D & CD40106B) to drive FORWARD and BACKWARD of H-bridge channel, the other board is the H-bridge Power MOSFET, which used 4 P ...
298 views

### H-bridge MOSFET NAND gate driver suffered from logic voltage drop

I've tried to reproduce the NAND Schmitt triggers circuit to drive my H-bridge MOSFET as per following source: http://axotron.se/index_en.php?page=34&chapter=0 All my design files are at this ...
2k views

### How to extract data from an NAND chip with an NAND reader from iphone 6? [closed]

I am not an electrical engineer and I cannot take phones apart. I had an iphone 6 that suffered no water damage, no smashed screens, no dust... but suddenly it got an NAND memory issue. The phone ...
179 views

### TTL NAND logic circuit

how can find the maximum fan-out of the TTL-NAND gate using LTSpice ? i tried to solve problem by hand, but the problem how to find fan-out using ltspice
118 views

### CMOS NAND Image

I was looking at this image which shows a CMOS NAND standard cell. However, how can I see this depicts a NAND? A CMOS NAND has parallel PMOS and serial NMOS transistors but somehow I can't see this ...
176 views

### Momentary Switch NAND Latching IC Burning and (Possibly) Faulty Logic

Problem: My issue is that the momentary switch with NAND latching logic that I have designed is not functioning consistently. It does work as intended at first, but then fails to work after repeated ...
877 views

### Latching Press-on / hold-off toggle switch circuit. Works on breadboard not on PCB

I followed a schematic and mocked up a Latching toggle switch with NAND gates. (see picture below for what I followed) (Source) I have mocked it up onto a breadboard. Using the exact same values of ...
56 views

### How can i simulate this circuit to match with the truth table?

How can I simulate this NAND logic circuit to match the truth table?]2
61 views

### Writing unused areas of a page on a NAND flash

I'm working on a project based on the ESP32 that uses a NAND chip from the GD5F1 family (link to the datasheet). Sorry for the long question, but it's a bit convoluted, and it's driving me nuts for ...
294 views

### nand gate astable vibrator do not work at 400kHz

I want to build a 400kHz square wave oscillator with NAND GATE using the CD4011BE circuit. Unfortunately, it does not work as expected when I use R2 and C values according this schematic: ...
56 views

### Alternative for adder out of NAND-gates

Recently I was experimenting with the NAND-gate representation of an adder circuit and tried to implemenent it without crossing wires. So I got this: The carry is negated, but when chaining two of ...
3k views

### Is the NAND logic gate perfectly symmetrical?

In other words: if we swap A and B, will Q behave exactly the same in DC and transient analysis?
1k views

### Current and Voltage in CMOS Logic Gate

So, in the NAND gate below, I understand how it works with the p-type and n-type transistors. However, my question is what happens with the current when the output is connected to Vdd? If the voltage ...
202 views

### NAND flash retention using USB charger?

NAND-based digital flash data storage devices such as SD,SSD,USBstick,eMMC,UFS,etc. do have transistors, where the small amount of electrical charge does slowly leak over time, resulting into data ...
104 views

### NAND technology - ecc error

Nand technology has some issues, which I find it a bit difficult to understand. It is said in nand devices that manufacture guaranty that a page will have no more than X (4/8/16,etc according to nand ...