DEPARTMENT OF TECHNICAL EDUCATION

ANDHRAPRADESH
Name : B. Rama Sundari
Designation : Lecturer in ECE
Branch : Electronics & Comm. Engg.
Institute : Govt. Polytechnic for women,

Guntur
Year/ Semester : III
Subject : Digital Electronics
Subject Code : CM-305
Topic : Logic gates & Boolean Algebra
Duration : 50 mts.
Sub topic : Full CM305
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 Recap

• Binary arithmetic operations

• Half adder (a) Logic diagram

• (b) Truth table

• (c ) Symbol & operation

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Objectives

On completion of this period, you would be able

to know

• Construction of full adder

• Truth table of full adder

• Draw block diagram of full adder

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Addition of two 3-bit binary numbers

Fig 13.1
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Full Adder

• A full adder adds three bits at a time

• A half adder can be used in addition of LSBs in

addition of two binary numbers

• A full adder is essential to add subsequent bits in

addition of two binary numbers

• It is a combinational logic circuit

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Logic circuit of Full Adder

Fig 13.2

A full adder consists of two half adders and an OR gate

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Truth table of full adder

CARRY CARRY SUM

input B input A
IN OUT digit
0 0 0 0 0
0 0 1 0 1
0 1 0 0 1
0 1 1 1 0
1 0 0 0 1
1 0 1 1 0
1 1 0 1 0
1 1 1 1 1
Table 13.1
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Simple representation of a full adder

A B

Cin Full Cout (carry out)

(carry in) adder

Sum
Fig 13.3

S = A ⊕ B ⊕ Ci

= A BC i + ABC i + ABCi + ABCi

C o = AB + BC i + AC i
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Summary

• A full adder adds three bits at a time

• A full adder is a combinational logic circuit that

consists of two half adders and one OR gate

• A full adder is used in construction of parallel binary

adder

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Quiz

     A Full adder adds…….bits at a time

1. 1  
2. 2
3. 3
4. any number

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A full adder has two inputs and …… outputs

1.   1

3.   2

5.   3

7.   any number

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A full adder consists of

•  two NAND gates and one OR gate

• two half adders and one OR gate

• one EX-OR gate, one NOR gate,

one AND gate

4. one NOR gate, two half adders

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Frequently asked questions in Exams

1. Construct full adder and draw its truth table

3. Show that a full adder can be constructed using

two half adders and an OR gate

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Assignment

1. Construct full adder and draw its truth table

2. Construct full adder using 3 and gates, 10R

and 1. ex- or gate.

3. Write the application of full adder

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