fan-out
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fan-out
[′fan‚au̇t] (electronics)
The number of parallel loads that can be driven from one output mode of a logic circuit.
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fan-out
(electronics)The number of logic gate inputs that can be
driven from a single gate output of the same type. Circuit
designers need to add extra buffers if a signal goes to more
inputs than the fan-out of the gate that produces it allows.
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