Chapter 4 Combinational Logic

 Logic circuits for digital systems may be

combinational or sequential.
 A combinational circuit consists of input variables,
logic gates, and output variables.

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 4-2. Analysis procedure
 To obtain the output Boolean functions from a
logic diagram, proceed as follows:
1. Label all gate outputs that are a function of input
variables with arbitrary symbols. Determine the Boolean
functions for each gate output.

2. Label the gates that are a function of input variables and

previously labeled gates with other arbitrary symbols. Find
the Boolean functions for these gates.

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 4-2. Analysis procedure
3. Repeat the process outlined in step 2 until the outputs of
the circuit are obtained.

4. By repeated substitution of previously defined functions,

obtain the output Boolean functions in terms of input
variables.

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 Example
F2 = AB + AC + BC; T1 = A + B + C; T2 = ABC; T3 = F2’T1;
F1 = T3 + T2
F1 = T3 + T2 = F2’T1 + ABC = A’BC’ + A’B’C + AB’C’ + ABC

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 Derive truth table from logic
diagram
 We can derive the truth table in Table 4-1 by using
the circuit of Fig.4-2.

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 4-4. Adder-Half Adder
 A combinational circuit that performs the addition of two
bits is called a half adder.
 The truth table for the half adder is listed below:

S: Sum
C: Carry

S = x’y + xy’
C = xy
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Implementation of Half-Adder

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 Full-Adder
 One that performs the addition of three bits(two
significant bits and a previous carry) is a full adder.

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Simplified Expressions

S = x’y’z + x’yz’ + xy’z’ + xyz

C = xy + xz + yz
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Full adder implemented in
SOP

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 Another implementation
 Full-adder can also implemented with two half
adders and one OR gate (Carry Look-Ahead adder).
S = z ⊕ (x ⊕ y)
= z’(xy’ + x’y) + z(xy’ + x’y)’
= xy’z’ + x’yz’ + xyz + x’y’z
C = z(xy’ + x’y) + xy = xy’z + x’yz + xy

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 Binary adder
 This is also called
Ripple Carry
Adder ,because of
the construction
with full adders are
connected in
cascade.

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 Carry Propagation
 Fig.4-9 causes a unstable factor on carry bit, and produces
a longest propagation delay.
 The signal from Ci to the output carry Ci+1, propagates
through an AND and OR gates, so, for an n-bit RCA, there
are 2n gate levels for the carry to propagate from input to
output.

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 Carry Propagation
 Because the propagation delay will affect the output signals
on different time, so the signals are given enough time to
get the precise and stable outputs.
 The most widely used technique employs the principle of
carry look-ahead to improve the speed of the algorithm.

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 Boolean functions
Pi = Ai ⊕ Bi steady state value
Gi = AiBisteady state value
Output sum and carry
Si = Pi ⊕ Ci
Ci+1 = Gi + PiCi
Gi : carry generate Pi : carry propagate
C0 = input carry
C1 = G0 + P0C0
C2 = G1 + P1C1 = G1 + P1G0 + P1P0C0
C3 = G2 + P2C2 = G2 + P2G1 + P2P1G0 + P2P1P0C0

 C3 does not have to wait for C2 and C1 to propagate.

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 Logic diagram of
carry look-ahead generator
 C3 is propagated at the same time as C2 and C1.

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 Binary subtractor
M = 1subtractor ; M = 0adder

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 Overflow
 It is worth noting Fig.4-13 that binary numbers in the
signed-complement system are added and subtracted by the
same basic addition and subtraction rules as unsigned
numbers.
 Overflow is a problem in digital computers because the
number of bits that hold the number is finite and a result
that contains n+1 bits cannot be accommodated.

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 Overflow on signed and unsigned
 When two unsigned numbers are added, an overflow is
detected from the end carry out of the MSB position.
 When two signed numbers are added, the sign bit is treated
as part of the number and the end carry does not indicate
an overflow.
 An overflow cann’t occur after an addition if one number is
positive and the other is negative.
 An overflow may occur if the two numbers added are both
positive or both negative.

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 4-5 Decimal adder
BCD adder can’t exceed 9 on each input digit. K is the carry.

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 Implementation of BCD adder
 A decimal parallel
adder that adds n
decimal digits needs
n BCD adder stages.
 The output carry
from one stage
If =1
must be connected
to the input carry of
0110
the next higher-
order stage.

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 4-6. Binary multiplier
 Usually there are more bits in the partial products and it is necessary to
use full adders to produce the sum of the partial products.

And

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 4-bit by 3-bit binary multiplier
 For J multiplier bits and K
multiplicand bits we need
(J X K) AND gates and (J −
1) K-bit adders to produce
a product of J+K bits.
 K=4 and J=3, we need 12
AND gates and two 4-bit
adders.

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 4-8. Decoders
 The decoder is called n-to-m-line decoder, where
m≤2n .
 the decoder is also used in conjunction with other
code converters such as a BCD-to-seven_segment
decoder.
 3-to-8 line decoder: For each possible input
combination, there are seven outputs that are
equal to 0 and only one that is equal to 1.

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Implementation and truth table

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 Decoder with enable input
 Some decoders are constructed with NAND gates, it becomes
more economical to generate the decoder minterms in their
complemented form.
 As indicated by the truth table , only one output can be equal
to 0 at any given time, all other outputs are equal to 1.

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 Demultiplexer
 A decoder with an enable input is referred to as a
decoder/demultiplexer.
 The truth table of demultiplexer is the same with
decoder. A B

D0

Demultiplexer D1
E
D2
D3

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 3-to-8 decoder with enable
implement the 4-to-16 decoder

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 Implementation of a Full Adder
with a Decoder
 From table 4-4, we obtain the functions for the combinational circuit in
sum of minterms:
S(x, y, z) = ∑(1, 2, 4, 7)
C(x, y, z) = ∑(3, 5, 6, 7)

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BCD To 7-Segment Decoder

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BCD To 7-Segment Decoder
Step 1: Construct Truth Table

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Step 2:
From the above truth table, the Boolean

expressions of each output functions can be

written as
a = F1 (A, B, C, D) = ∑m (0, 2, 3, 5, 7, 8, 9)

b = F2 (A, B, C, D) = ∑m (0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 8, 9)

c = F3 (A, B, C, D) = ∑m (0, 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8,

9)

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d = F4 (A, B, C, D) = ∑m (0, 2, 3, 5, 6, 8)
e = F5 (A, B, C, D) = ∑m (0, 2, 6, 8)
f = F6 (A, B, C, D) = ∑m (0, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9)
g = F7 (A, B, C, D) = ∑m (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9)

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Step 3:
The third step involves constructing the

Karnough’s map for each output term and then

simplifying them to obtain a logic combination
of inputs for each output.

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 Step 4: The final step involves drawing a
combinational logic circuit for each output
signal. Once the task was accomplished, a
combinational logic circuit can be drawn
using 4 inputs (A,B,C,D)and a 7- segment
display (a,b,c,d,e,f,g) as output.

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 4-9. Encoders
 An encoder is the inverse operation of a decoder.
 We can derive the Boolean functions by table 4-7
z = D 1 + D3 + D5 + D7
y = D2 + D3 + D6 + D7
x = D4 + D5 + D6 + D7

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 Priority encoder
 If two inputs are active simultaneously, the output produces
an undefined combination. We can establish an input
priority to ensure that only one input is encoded.
 Another ambiguity in the octal-to-binary encoder is that an
output with all 0’s is generated when all the inputs are 0;
the output is the same as when D0 is equal to 1.
 The discrepancy tables on Table 4-7 and Table 4-8 can
resolve aforesaid condition by providing one more output to
indicate that at least one input is equal to 1.

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 Priority encoder
V=0no valid inputs
V=1valid inputs

X’s in output columns represent

don’t-care conditions
X’s in the input columns are
useful for representing a truth
table in condensed form.
Instead of listing all 16
minterms of four variables.

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 4-input priority encoder
0
 Implementation of 0
table 4-8 0
0
x = D2 + D3
y = D3 + D1D’2
V = D0 + D1 + D2 + D3

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 Multiplexers
S = 0, Y = I0 Truth Table S Y Y = S’I0 + SI1
S = 1, Y = I1 0 I0
1 I1

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4-to-1 Line Multiplexer

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