OBJECTIVE

On completion of this period, you would be able to learn:

• Combinational logic circuits

• Function of half adder

Recap
• Logic gates are the decision making devices.

• Logic gates are the basic building blocks of logic circuits.

• Name some logic gates.

• AND gate
• OR gate
• NOT gate
• NAND gate
• OR gate
• XOR gate
Combinational circuit

• Its output depends only on present inputs.

• Logic gates are the basic building blocks of

combinational circuits.
EXAMPLES
• Half adder

• Full adder

• Multiplexer

• Decoder
 Half adder

• It has two inputs and two outputs.

• It adds two bits (binary digits) and produces sum

and carry.
Full adder

• It has three inputs and two outputs.

• It adds three bits and produces sum & carry outputs.

Multiplexer

• A digital circuit that sends data from any one of many

lines on to a single line.

• Different data will be present at the multiple inputs.

• Out of these multiple inputs one is selected and send

to the output line.
Decoder

• It converts binary data into other form such as

decimal, octal and hexadecimal etc.,

Arithmetic circuit

The circuit which performs the arithmetic operations

like addition, subtraction, etc.

Ex: Half adder, Half Subtractor, Full adder, Full

subtractor
HALF ADDER
Block Diagram of Half adder

A SUM

INPUTS OUTPUTS
B HALF ADDER
CARRY

Fig 1
Function of Half adder

• It performs two bit binary addition and produces the

sum and carry.

• It has two inputs and two outputs.

Truth table of Half adder

A B CARRY SUM

0 0 0 0

0 1 0 1

1 0 0 1

1 1 1 0
Table 1
Boolean Expression for sum & carry of Half adder

• Carry =A.B

• Sum =AB+AB = A + B
Summary

In this period we have discussed about

• Half adder is a combinational logic circuit.

• It has two inputs and two outputs.

• It performs two bit binary addition.

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