EE-301 Lab Manual, ME Department, Wah Engineering College

Lab Experiment # 9

Implementation and verification of truth table of 8x3 encoder.

Objective: To Implement and verify of truth table of 8x3 encoder.

Apparatus:

 Three OR-7432 ICs (12 OR logic gates).

 Electronic trainer
 Jumper wires
Introduction

Encoder:

An encoder is a digital circuit that encodes one number system to another.

The encoder is a digital circuit that performs the inverse operation of a decoder. Encoder has 2n
(or fewer) input lines and n output lines. The output lines, as an aggregate, generate the binary
code corresponding to the input value.

8-3 encoder

An example of an encoder is the octal-to-binary encoder whose truth table is given in Table. It
has eight inputs (one for each of the octal digits) and three outputs that generate the
corresponding binary number. It is assumed that only one input has a value of 1 at any given
time.
The encoder can be implemented with OR gates whose inputs are determined directly from the
truth table. Output Q0 is equal to 1 when the input octal digit is 1, 3, 5, or 7. Output Q2 is 1 for
octal digits 2, 3, 6, or 7, and output Q1 is 1 for digits 4, 5, 6, or 7. These conditions can be
expressed by the following Boolean output functions:
Q0 = D1 + D3 + D5 + D7
Q2= D2 + D3 + D6 + D7
Q3= D4 + D5 + D6 + D7
The encoder can be implemented with three OR gates with four inputs or we use 12 OR gate of 2
inputs.

Truth Table of an Octal-to-Binary Encoder

D7 D6 D5 D4 D3 D2 D1 D0 Q1 Q2 Q0
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 1 x 0 0 1
0 0 0 0 0 1 x x 0 1 0
0 0 0 0 1 x x x 0 1 1
0 0 0 1 x x x x 1 0 0
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0 0 1 x x x x x 1 0 1
0 1 x x x x x x 1 1 0
1 x x x x x x x 1 1 1
Table-1
1. Limitation:
The encoder defined in Table has the limitation that only one input can be active at any given
time. If two inputs are active simultaneously, the output produces an undefined combination. For
example, if D3 and D6 are 1 simultaneously, the output of the encoder will be 111 because all
three outputs are equal to 1. The output 111 does not represent either binary 3 or binary 6.
Solution:
To resolve this ambiguity, encoder circuits must establish an input priority to ensure that only
one input is encoded. If we establish a higher priority for inputs with higher subscript numbers,
and if both D3 and D6 are 1 at the same time, the output will be 110 because D6 has higher
priority than D3.
2. Limitation:
Another ambiguity in the octal-to-binary encoder is that an output with all 0’s is generated when
all the inputs are 0; but this output is the same as when D0 is equal to 1.
Solution:
The discrepancy can be resolved by providing one more output to indicate whether at least one
input is equal to 1.

Task:
The first task is construct 8-3 encoder by using basic OR gate with two inputs on electronic
trainer.
Circuit diagram:

Figure-1 circuit
Procedure:
1. First of all we took OR-7432 ICs and check them by patching in the electronic trainer.
2. After that we connect 14th pin of each with 5 volt and 7th pin ground of each.
3. Then we construct the 8-3 encoder circuit by using 12 OR gates from these ICs and show
its results.
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Output:

Figure-2 circuit on trainer

Conclusion: From this lab we have learnt about the encoder we have also implement 8-3
encoder on hardware and verify its results.