Even in the best embedded designs, there are always last minute improvements and engineering changes. Signals interfacing between various components within the system may need additional drive current, threshold voltages may need adjustment, IO pins may need multiplexing or terminating, control logic may need to be summed, or pin-limited microcontrollers may need a simple logic device to interface to components such as banks of LEDs . With features like integrated bus hold and source side termination resisters, dual supplies, Schmitt trigger inputs, oversupply tolerance, and three state outputs, NXP's logic solutions are addressing design challenges like signal integrity improvement, voltage level translation, live insertion, standby mode, and robust output levels in crowded embedded systems. In addition, also learn how NXP logic combines various standard logic functions in a single package with configurable and combination logic devices which benefit embedded system designs by reducing pin count, board congestion, lowering system-level cost, and improving inventory management and qualification expenses.