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

Lab Experiment # 10
Boolean Implementation of XOR & XNOR gates using basic logic gates.

Objective: Boolean Implementation of XOR & XNOR gates using basic logic gates.
Apparatus:-
 ICs
 Bread board
 wires
 Logic gates
 trainer

Theory:-
XOR Gate:-
An XOR gate (sometimes referred to by its extended name, Exclusive OR gate) is a digital logic
gate with two or more inputs and one output that performs exclusive disjunction. The output of
an XOR gate is true only when exactly one of its inputs is true. If both of an XOR gate's inputs
are false, or if both of its inputs are true, then the output of the XOR gate is false.
If an XOR gate has more than two inputs, then its behavior depends on its implementation. In the
vast majority of cases, an XOR gate will output true if an odd number of its inputs is true.
However, it's important to note that this behavior differs from the strict definition of exclusive or,
which insists that exactly one input must be true for the output to be true.

Figure: 1-1 Symbol Figure: 1-2

Truth Table 1

XNOR Gate:-
The XNOR gate (sometimes spelled "exnor" or "enor"and rarely written NXOR) is a digital logic
gate whose function is the inverse of the exclusive OR (XOR) gate. The two-input version
implements logical equality, behaving according to the truth table to the right. A HIGH output (1)
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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.

Figure: 2-1 Symbol Figure: 2-2

Truth Table: 2
Results:-

XOR

XNOR

Conclusion:-
From this lab we study the implementation of XOR&XNOR gate and verify results according to
their truth table results.