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Logic Gates
INTRODUCTION
A logic gate is an elementary building block of a digital circuit. It
makes ―logical decisions‖ based on the different combinations of
digital signals present on its inputs. Digital logic gates may have
more than one input but generally only have one digital output. Most
logic gates have two inputs and one output.
Knowledge Cloud
A gate is a digital circuit that is designed for performance a
particular logical operation. As it works according to some logical
relationship between input and output voltages, so it is generally
known as “LOGIC GATES”
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1. AND gate:
The AND gate is a basic digital logic gate that implements logical
conjunction - it behaves according to the truth table. A HIGH
output (1) results only if both the inputs to the AND gate are HIGH
(1). If neither or only one input to the AND gate is HIGH, a LOW
output results. In another sense, the function of AND effectively
finds the minimum between two binary digits, just as the OR
function finds the maximum. Therefore, the output is always 0
except when all the inputs are 1.
We will start with a 2 input AND gate. The symbol for a 2 input
AND gate is as follows.
A
Q
B
The truth table for the 2 input AND gate is shown below.
Inputs Output
B A Q
0 0 0
0 1 0
1 0 0
1 1 1
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2. OR gate:
The OR gate is a digital logic gate that implements logical
disjunction - it behaves according to the truth table. A HIGH
output (1) results if one or both the inputs to the gate are
HIGH (1). If neither input is high, a LOW output (0) results. In
another sense, the function of OR effectively finds the
maximum between two binary digits, just as the complementary
AND function finds the minimum. We will start with a 2 input
OR gate. The symbol for a 2 input OR gate is as follows.
A
Q
B
Inputs Output
B A Q
0 0 0
0 1 1
1 0 1
1 1 1
Q = A+B
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This is the simplest form of logic gate and has only 1 input and
1 output. Simply the purpose of this gate is to invert the input
signal so if a Logic 0 is at the input, the output will be at
Logic 1 and vice versa. The symbol for a NOT gate is as
follows.
A Q
The truth table for a NOT gate is the simplest of all Truth Tables
and is shown below.
Input Output
A Q
0 1
1 0
6 QA
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4.NAND gate
A
Q
B
The truth table for the 2 input NAND gate is shown below.
Inputs Output
B A Q
0 0 1
0 1 1
1 0 1
1 1 0
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The Boolean expression for a 2 input NAND gate is
Q A.B
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5.NOR gate:
We will start with a 2 input NOR gate. The symbol for a 2 input NOR
gate is asfollows.
A
Q
B
The truth table for the 2 input NOR gate is shown below.
Inputs Output
B A Q
0 0 1
0 1 0
1 0 0
1 1 0
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The Boolean expression for a 2 input NOR gate is
Q = A+B
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6.XNOR gate:
The XNOR gate has 2 inputs and is the inverted form of the EXOR
gate. The XNOR gate (sometimes spelled "exnor" or "enor" and
rarely written NXOR) is a digital logic gate whose function is the
logical complement of the exclusive OR (XOR) gate. A HIGH output
(1) results if both of the inputs to the gate are the same. If one but
not both inputs are HIGH (1), a LOW output (0) results. The symbol
for a 2 input XNOR gate is as follows.
A
Q
B
The truth table for the 2 input XNOR gate is shown below.
Inputs Output
B A Q
0 0 1
0 1 0
1 0 0
1 1 1
Q A B
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alternatively Q A.B A.B
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7.EXOR gate.
The truth table for the 2 input EXOR gate is shown below.
Inputs Output
B A Q
0 0 0
0 1 1
10 1 0 1
1 1 0
Q A B
0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1
0 1 0 1 1 0 1 0
1 0 0 1 1 0 1 0
1 1 1 0 1 0 0 1
The following table gives a list of the common logic functions and
their equivalent Boolean notation.
AND A.B
OR A+B
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NAND A .B
NOR A+B
EX-NOR (A.B) + or A B
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The repeated use of the OR, the AND or the NOT gates alone
cannot give a different gate. But the repeated use of the NAND or
the NOR gates alone can give all basic gates like OR, AND and NOT
gate. Hence the NAND and the NOR gates are also called Universal
Logic Gates. In digital circuits, these gates serve as digital building
blocks.
Knowledge Cloud
Charles Sanders Peirce (winter of 1880–81) showed that NOR gates alone
(or alternatively NAND gates alone) can be used to reproduce the
functions of all the other logic gates, but his work on it was unpublished
until 1933.The first published proof was by Henry M.Sheffer in 1913, so
the NAND logical operation is sometimes called Sheffer stroke; the
logical NOR is sometimes called Peirce's arrow.
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Integrated Circuits
INTRODUCTION
An integrated circuit (IC), sometimes called a chip or microchip,
isa semiconductor wafer on which thousands or millions of tiny
resistors, capacitors, and transistors are fabricated. An IC can
function as an amplifier, oscillator, timer, counter,
computer memory, or microprocessor.
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While the “ultra large scale” ULSI classification is less well used,
another level of integration which represents the complexity of the
14 Integrated Circuit is known as the System-on-Chip or (SOC) for
short. Here the individual components such as the microprocessor,
memory, peripherals, I/O logic etc., are all produced on a single
piece of silicon and which represents a whole electronic system
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within one single chip, literally putting the word ―integrated‖ into
integrated circuit.
These complete integrated chips which can contain up to 100 million
individual silicon-CMOS transistor gates within one single package
are generally used in mobile phones, digital cameras, micro-
controllers, PIC’s and robotic type applications.
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IC's are of Linear, digital and mixed types. Linear IC's also known as
analog Integrated circuits are used in:
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1. Power amplifiers
2. Small-signal amplifiers
3. Operational amplifiers
4. Microwave amplifiers
5. RF and IF amplifiers
6. Voltage comparators
7. Multipliers
8. Radio receivers
9. Voltage regulators
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Result
We had mainly discussed about the design, property and operation
of various logic gates
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