Electronic – Electrical symbols, what does a dot before a triangle mean

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Good day.

Trying to recreate a circuit, but I'm not sure what the dot BEFORE the triangle means. I know after it means invertor, does before just mean it's inverted BEFORE, instead of after? Rather confused, and not having luck searching.

Really appreciate the help.

BCD-to-7 segment latch decoder

Best Answer

Just another way of drawing a logic inverter ("NOT").

The triangle-with-bubble is an inverter: logic high input yields logic low output, and vice versa. Usually the bubble is shown on the output, but in a mixed-logic system, the bubble can be shown on the input instead.

When the bubble is on the input instead of the output, that indicates that the input is an active-low input.