The NXP 74ALVCH16823DGG112 is a bus driver from the ALVC/VCX/A series, designed to buffer and drive address or data buses in digital systems. It handles the fan-out and signal integrity requirements of a multi-drop bus, which is the kind of thing you find in memory interfaces, backplane controllers, or any board where one output has to talk to several inputs without sagging.
Active lifecycle and sourcing posture
It ships in Bulk packaging, which is the standard tube or tray format for through-hole or surface-mount ICs in repair, prototyping, and low-to-medium volume assembly. No reel or tape-and-reel here — this is the format you want when you are swapping a part on a board in a repair bay or populating a small run by hand.
What the ALVC/VCX/A series means for your BOM
The ALVC/VCX/A series is a family of advanced low-voltage CMOS logic ICs that operate at supply voltages down to 1.65 V, making them compatible with modern 1.8 V and 2.5 V core logic while still handling 3.3 V interfaces. A bus driver from this series typically offers 24 mA output drive and fast propagation delays, which matters when you are driving a heavily loaded bus and need the edges to stay clean.