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I don't see why Wired-OR/AND logic would take any power whatever:
it's passive.  The `wired' node winds up with a lot of capacitance
on it, though, so it won't switch as fast as an active gate.
Occasionally, speed is of no concern, and a wired gate can be a win.

A colleague used wire-ANDed gates to construct a multiplexer that
effectively decoded his microprocessor peripheral's `read registers'.
The host micro's memory read cycles were slow enough, relative to
the speeds of the ASIC gates, that the wired-AND delivered adequate
performance, at a lower chip real-estate cost than active circuitry
would have required.


Brian RHodefer  !tektronix!tekig5!brianr