Why learn about Karnaugh maps? The Karnaugh map, like Boolean algebra, is a simplification tool applicable to digital logic. See the “Toxic…
Mathematicians use Venn diagrams to show the logical relationships of sets (collections of objects) to one another. Perhaps you have already seen Venn diagrams…
Starting with circle A in a rectangular A’ universe in figure (a) below, we morph a Venn diagram into almost a Karnaugh map. We…
The logic simplification examples that we have done so could have been performed with Boolean algebra about as quickly. Real…
Knowing how to generate Gray code should allow us to build larger maps. Actually, all we need to do is…
So far we have been finding Sum-Of-Product (SOP) solutions to logic reduction problems. For each of these SOP solutions, there…
Up to this point we have considered logic reduction problems where the input conditions were completely specified. That is, a…
The fourth example has A partially overlapping B. Though, we will first look at the whole of all hatched area below, then later…
Maurice Karnaugh, a telecommunications engineer, developed the Karnaugh map at Bell Labs in 1953 while designing digital logic based telephone…
For reference, this section introduces the terminology used in some texts to describe the minterms and maxterms assigned to a…
