The Philips Semiconductors 74F “Light Load” product line is a high performance, TTL bus compatible series of very low input bias current (±20mA), buffer/driver, transceiver, register, multiplexer and arithmetic MSI functions. The patented “Light Load”, ±20mA NPN input structure, shown in Figure 1, combined with a unique input speed-up circuit (also patented) makes this product line ideal for interfacing with all MOS devices, without any speed degradation. When compared to the IIL of standard FAST inputs of 600mA (larger for some other logic families) this “Light Load” input shows a 30:1 reduction in IIL loading (600mA/20mA). These devices were specifically designed to meet the requirements of buffering low output drive MOS VLSI/LSI devices from the rigorous loading environment PC board/motherboard buses and system backplanes. The “Light Load” inputs and improved speed performance make this product line ideal for interfacing to low output drive capability, slower MOS CPU, peripherals and semi-custom chips used in most state-of-the-art logic designs today. Using these “Light Load” input bus products, MOS chip outputs will only have to drive the small amount of distributed PC trace capacitance and inductance loading. The MOS device output drive capability is not wasted on drivers/transceivers with large DC input current drive requirements. See Table 1 for a complete listing of the part numbers and functions of the “Light Load” product line.