74LS138 is a member from ‘74xx’family of TTL logic gates. The chip is designed for decoding or de-multiplexing applications and comes with 3 inputs to 8 output setup. The design is also made for the chip to be used in high-performance memory-decoding or data-routing applications, requiring very short propagation delay times. In high performance memory systems these decoders can be used to minimize the effects of system decoding.