08-01-2013, 03:32 AM
(This post was last modified: 08-01-2013, 03:36 AM by CMOSprinkles.)
The difference between an inverter and a regular XOR is that one input is shared for each bit. It's not a very significant difference, but there are some designs that lose stackability or speed when used as a typical XOR gate, which makes them not ideal for that function. Also, in some inverters, it may take 2-4 ticks to change states from regular to inverted, but only 1-2 ticks for data to pass through in either state.