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Concepts
Learning Outcome
8 learning sessions
Teaching methods
group learning ,
peer learning ,
innovative quiz
Session 1 – combinational logic circuits
Product term
A product term is a conjunction of literals, where
each literal is either a Boolean variable or its
complement.
Examples: A . B A’ . B. C’ A
Fundamental product or Minterm
For a function of n variables, a product term in
which each of the n variables appears once
(in uncomplemented or complemented form) is
called a fundamental product or minterm
Types of canonical forms
The canonical formulas are of two types
1. Minterm canonical formulas
2. Maxterm canonical formulas
• MINTERM CANONICAL FORMULAS
• Minterms are product of terms which represents the
functional values of the variables appear either in
complemented or un complemented form.
• Ex: f(x,y,z) = x y z + x y z + x y
The Boolean expression whichis represented above
is also known as SOP or disjunctive formula. The
truth table is
Fundamental Products for Two inputs
Consider two inputs A and B. The fundamental
products or minterms are listed below:
Sum-of-Products (SOP) Equation