From Truth Table to Expression: Minterms, Sum of Products & a Check Column
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In this lesson
You turn the truth table of a toy 2-out-of-3 sensor voter into its function number, write the canonical sum of products from its minterms, simplify it and use a check column to catch a colleague's shortcut that is wrong on one row.
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Lessons in this course
- Gates as Formulas: AND, OR, NOT, NAND, NOR, XOR & an XOR Built Only from NANDsFree
- From Truth Table to Expression: Minterms, Sum of Products & a Check Column Locked
- Karnaugh Maps: Gray-Code Layout, Groups of 1, 2, 4 & 8, Don't-Care Cells and the Literals You Save Locked
- Binary Adders: Bits with MOD and INT, Half & Full Adders, a 4-Bit Ripple-Carry Adder and the Overflow Flag Locked
- Multiplexers & Decoders: Select Bits, One-Hot Lines, a Display Decoder from a Lookup Table and a Parity Bit Locked
- Latches & Flip-Flops: SR Latch with an Invalid Flag, D, JK and T Flip-Flops on Rising Clock Edges Locked
- Counters & Shift Registers: a 3-Bit Synchronous Counter, a Mod-6 Counter with Reset and a Pattern Detector Locked
- Capstone – A Traffic-Light State Machine: State Table, Combined Keys, 24 Clock Ticks and the Fastest Clock Locked