LOGIC GATE'S

In electronics, a logic gate is

an idealized or physical
device implementing a
Boolean function; that is, it
performs a logical operation
on one or more binary inputs
and produces a single binary
output.

HISTORY OF LOGIC GATES

Charles Sanders Peirce described how
logical operations could be carried out
by electrical switching circuits. Soon,
vacuum tubes replaced relays for logic
operations. Ludwig Wittgenstein
introduced a version of the 16-row
truth table as proposition. In 1924
walter bothe invented the remarkable
'AND' gate. Since then many more
logic gates have been found by
numerous scientists.

TYPES OF LOGIC GATES

The basic logic gates are
classified into seven types:
AND gate, OR gate, XOR gate,
NAND gate, NOR gate, XNOR
gate and NOT gate. Truth
table is used to show logic
gate function. All the logic
gates have two inputs except
the NOT gate, which has only
one input
And gate: The AND gate is an
electronic circuit that gives a
high output (1) only if all its
inputs are high. A dot (.) is
used to show the AND
operation.
Or gate: The OR gate is an
electronic circuit that gives a
high output (1) if one or more
of its inputs are high. A plus
(+) is used to show the OR
operation.
Not gate: The NOT gate is an
electronic circuit that
produces an inverted version
of the input at its output. If
the input variable is A, the
inverted output is known as
NOT A.
Many other logic gates like
Nand(not and) gate, Nor (not
or) gate are formed by
combining the following
gates.
Exor gate: The 'Exclusive-OR'
gate is a circuit which will
give a high output if either,
but not both, of its two inputs
are high. An encircled plus
sign is used to show the EOR
operation.
Exnor gate: It will give a low
output if either, but not both,
of its two inputs are high. The
symbol is an EXOR gate with a
small circle as output.
USES OF LOGIC GATES
Logic circuits are found in
several devices including
multiplexers,
arithmetic logic units,
computer memory and
registers. They are
also used in
microprocessors, some of
which can contain over
100 million gates.