totem-pole output

A bipolar output whose active devices are so controlled that as the resistance of one increases, the resistance of the other decreases so that, according to the relative states of the two active devices, the output voltage can swing between levels approaching the two supply voltages.

NOTE 1 The term "totem-pole output", as commonly used, does not include three-state outputs.

NOTE 2 No standard qualifying symbol, as part of a graphic symbol, exists to designate the totem-pole output. In ANSI/IEEE Std 91 and IEC 617-12 these outputs are identified by the absence of a qualifying symbol.

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