National qualifies logic family for QML

Officials of National Semiconductor Corp. in Santa Clara, Calif., have qualified their FACT Quiet Series logic family - their first advance CMOS logic devices to meet the noise problems of ground bounce, dynamic threshold, and high electromagnetic interference in space applications-to the Defense Department`s Qualified Manufacturing List, better known as QML. The new devices feature high speed, low device-generated noise, high drive, low power consumption, and as much as 100 kilorads of radiation hardening. It operates from 5 volt supplies. For more information contact National Semiconductor on the World Wide Web at http://www.national.com/. - J.K.