I am just learning electronics and have difficulty differentiating between the hex inverter and open collector. Here is the specific question:
- Hex inverter, such as 74HC04: In digital logic, an inverter or NOT gate is a logic gate which implements logical negation. Thus, when input is low, the output is high and the other way around.
- Open collector such as 74LS06 is basically a hex inverter with a pull-up resistor.