summary of Simplifying Logic Circuits

summary

● Veitch diagrams provide a fast and easy way to reduce complicated expressions to their simplest form.

● Veitch diagrams can be constructed from two, three, or four variables.

● The simplest logic expression is obtained from a Veitch diagram by looping groups of one, two, four, or eight X’s and “OR”ing the looped terms.

● Like Veitch diagrams, Karnaugh maps provide a fast and easy method to reduce complex Boolean expressions to their simplest form.

● Karnaugh maps can be constructed for two, three, or four variables.

● The simplest logic expression is obtained from a Karnaugh map by looping groups of one, two, four, or eight 1s and “OR”ing the looped terms.