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Digital Electronics: Principles, Devices and Applications
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Digital Electronics: Principles, Devices and Applications

by Anil K. Maini
September 2007
Intermediate to advanced
752 pages
21h 49m
English
Wiley
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7

Arithmetic Circuits

Beginning with this chapter, and in the two chapters following, we will take a comprehensive look at various building blocks used to design more complex combinational circuits. A combinational logic circuit is one where the output or outputs depend upon the present state of combination of the logic inputs. The logic gates discussed in Chapter 4 constitute the most fundamental building block of a combinational circuit. More complex combinational circuits such as adders and subtractors, multiplexers and demultiplexers, magnitude comparators, etc., can be implemented using a combination of logic gates. However, the aforesaid combinational logic functions and many more, including more complex ones, are available in monolithic IC form. A still more complex combinational circuit may be implemented using a combination of these functions available in IC form. In this chapter, we will cover devices used to perform arithmetic and other related operations. These include adders, subtractors, magnitude comparators and look-ahead carry generators. Particular emphasis is placed upon the functioning and design of these combinational circuits. The text has been adequately illustrated with the help of a large number of solved problems, the majority of which are design oriented.

7.1 Combinational Circuits

A combinational circuit is one where the output at any time depends only on the present combination of inputs at that point of time with total disregard to the past state of ...

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