As digital devices get smaller and faster, once ubiquitous 5 V logic has given way to ever lower-voltage standards like 3.3 V, 2.5 V, and even 1.8 V, leading to an ecosystem of components that need a little help talking to each other. For example, a 5 V part might fail to read a 3.3 V signal as high..
The TXB0106 is a bi-directional signal level shifter made by Texas Instruments. It features six channels of input/output signals and an output enable line that allows the signal lines to be placed in a high impedance mode when they are unneeded. Depending on the high and low side voltages, the bandw..