What the 74AC family buys you on this bus transceiver
The CD74AC646M is an 8-bit non-inverting transceiver with 3-state outputs from TI's 74AC logic family. It sits between the slower 74LS and the faster 74ABT/74LVTH families, offering a balanced speed-power point for bus-oriented data flow. The 24 mA symmetric output drive at both high and low levels is enough to drive a heavily loaded backplane or a memory-address bus with a dozen loads.
