
Karnaugh Map and Minimization Procedures 3.21
3.7 REPRESENTATIONS OF A FUNCTION (COVER)
FOR A COMPUTER-AIDED MINIMIZATION FOR
SIMPLIFYING THE LOGIC CIRCUITS
When simplifying and finding the prime implicants manually and up to fewer vari-
ables (six), the Karnaugh maps are suitable. For complex circuits, the computer-
aided minimization is used.
3.7.1 Representation in Cube Format for Computer-aided
Minimization
A cube has three axes, X-axis, Y-axis and Z-axis. Figure 3.5 shows a cube. It has
8 vertices. The origin vertex coordinates are 000, to represent ABC
The other
3 vertices along the axes has coordinates are 100, 010, 001 (corresponding ...