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SN74LV4040A: Solder bridge inquiry

Part Number: SN74LV4040A

Hello Guys,

Good day.

Our customer have a hypothetical inquiry on SN74LV4040ARGYR (VQFN). He wanted to know what would happen if the output pins of the device, say pins 3,4 are solder bridged together, what effect will this have on the IC in turns of current sink/sourcing?

He thinks that device seem to sink and source its Q-pins. So his guess is that you can basically short the device through itself.

They are using the device as a counter, they generally are attached to AND gate, or some other kind of logic iC. Not really driving anything.

Thanks to confirm!

Art