Combinational Design Example

Tom Kelliher, CS 240

Feb. 15, 2008

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Assignment

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Design process and analysis.

Outline

  1. Outline of design procedure.

  2. Design of a two-bit multiplier.

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Well-known combinational circuits: decoders, encoders, muxes.

Design Procedure Outline

  1. From circuit description, determine number of inputs and outputs. Name I/O signals.

  2. Determine truth table for each output.

  3. Obtain minimized Boolean functions for each output.

  4. Draw the schematic.

  5. Verify.

Often in multiple output circuits, implicant terms can be shared between outputs, reducing gate count.

Two-Bit Multiplier

Class exercise.



Thomas P. Kelliher 2008-02-13
Tom Kelliher