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Switching Networks

The document discusses switching networks and how they can be represented using logical statements. A switching network connects two terminals and consists of wires and switches that can be open or closed. Simple networks with one or two switches are shown and it is explained that a parallel network allows current to flow if any switch is closed, while a series network requires all switches to be closed. Examples show how more complex networks can be represented as logical statements combining switches with AND, OR and NOT operators and how equivalent statements represent the same network. Readers are given examples and exercises to practice drawing networks from given logical statements.

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Switching Networks

The document discusses switching networks and how they can be represented using logical statements. A switching network connects two terminals and consists of wires and switches that can be open or closed. Simple networks with one or two switches are shown and it is explained that a parallel network allows current to flow if any switch is closed, while a series network requires all switches to be closed. Examples show how more complex networks can be represented as logical statements combining switches with AND, OR and NOT operators and how equivalent statements represent the same network. Readers are given examples and exercises to practice drawing networks from given logical statements.

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Application on the ideas of logical equivalence:

SWITCHING NETWORKS
✢ A switching network is made up of wires and switches connecting two terminals T1 and T2 .
✢ In such a network, each switch is either open (0), so that no current flows through it, or closed (1),
so that current does flow through it.
✢ Figure (a) is a network with one switch, while Figure (b) and (c) are networks that contain two
(independent) switches.

p p q
T1 T2 T1 T2 T1 T2

(a) (b) (c)

✢ For network (b), current flows from T1 to T2 if either the switches p or q is closed. We call this a
parallel network and represented by p  q.
✢ For network (c), current flows from T1 to T2 if both switches p and q are closed. We call this a series
network and represented by p  q.

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EXAMPLE 2.17

p
p p p

q t ~t T1 T2
T1 T2 t

r ~q r r

~q

(a) (b)

✢ Network (a) is represented by the statement ( p  q  r )  ( p  t  ~ q )  ( p ~ t  r ) .


✢ Network (b) is represented by the statement p  r  ( t  ~ q )  .
✢ Using the Law of Logic, you can verify that ( p  q  r )  ( p  t  ~ q )  ( p ~ t  r ) is logically equivalent to
p  r  ( t  ~ q ) .

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LET’S TRY !

Write the statements that represent the following networks:

~r

p q p p r t

~q

p q
T1 T2 T1 T2
r

t ~q
p q ~r t

~r

(1) (2)

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EXAMPLE 2.18

Draw the switching network that represents the statement:

( p  q )  ( ~ p  ( p ~ q ) )  ( q  ~ r )
Answer :

p q

~p

T1 T2
p ~q

~r

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EXAMPLE 2.19

Draw the switching network that represents the statement:

 p  ( p  q )  ( p  q  ~ r )  ( p  r  t )  t 

Answer :

p p r t

p q
T1 T2

p q ~r t

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LET’S TRY !

Draw the switching network that represents the following statements:

(1) ( p  ~ r )  ( q  ( r  ~ p ) )   ( ~ q  q  p )
 

(2) q  ( p ~ r )  ( r  q )  ( p  q )  ~ p 

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