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DEPARTMENT OF TECHNICAL EDUCATION

ANDHRAPRADESH
Name : A. Sivaprasad
Designation : Senior Lecturer in ECE
Branch : Electronics & Comm. Engg.
Institute : Govt. Polytechnic for women,
Guntur
Year/ Semester : III
Subject : Digital Electronics
Subject Code : CM-305
Topic : Logic gates & Boolean Algebra
Duration : 50 mts.
Sub topic : Arithmetic circuits and Half Adder
Teaching aids : Diagrams
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Objective

On completion of this period, you would be able
to know

What is Arithmetic circuit?

Construction of half adder

Truth table of half adder
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What is an arithmetic operation ?
What is an Adder ?
What is a Subtractor ?
Where an adder is used ?
What is Arithmetic circuit?
An Arithmetic circuit performs basic arithmetic operations
like addition, multiplication, shifting and comparison

Adder, Subtractor and Multiplier circuits are essential
inside microprocessors as part of the, or Arithmetic
Logic Unit (ALU)

Arithmetic circuits are excellent examples of
combinational logic design
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Logic circuits are two types
Combinational (without memory)


Sequential (with memory)
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Four possible additions of two 1-bit binary numbers
Fig 12.1
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Half adder
A half adder is a combinational logic circuit that
performs an addition operation on two binary
digits.

This produces a sum and a carry value which are

both binary digits.

Logic circuit of half adder
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Fig 12.2
Truth table of Half adder
input B input A
CARRY
digit
SUM
digit
0 0 0 0
0 1 0 1
1 0 0 1
1 1 1 0
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Table 12.1
Summary
An arithmetic circuit performs basic arithmetic
operations like addition, multiplication, shift and
comparison

Half adder adds two bits at a time

Half adder is a combinational logic circuit that
consists of an EX-OR gate and AND gate.

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Quiz
A half adder adds bits at a time

1. 1

2. 2

3. 3

4. any number
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A half adder consists of ..gates

1. NAND and NOR

2. AND and OR

3. EX-OR and OR

4. EX-OR and AND
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Which gate gives sum output in half adder?


1. NAND

2. OR

3. EX-OR

4. EX-NOR
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Half adder is a

1. sequential circuit

2. Combinational circuit

3. Any of the above

4. None of the above
Frequently asked questions in Exams
1. Draw the logic circuit of half adder

2. Write the truth table of half adder

3. What gates are used in half adder to get sum and
carry outputs?

4. What is an arithmetic circuit? And where is it used?
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