Activity 2.2.4
Introduction
Now that you are all experts at logic simplification using Boolean algebra and K-Mapping and can implement virtually any combinational design using AOI, NAND, and NOR gates, it’s time to let you in on a little secret. A tool located within the Multisim Circuit Design Software, called the Logic Converter, can do much of this work for you. You might be asking yourself why you weren’t given this tool sooner. As an engineer you need to know how to design these types of circuits with and without the aid of such tools. Besides, who do you think designs tools like the Logic Converter? That’s right, an engineer.
In this activity you will complete a brief tutorial and use the Logic Converter to create and simulate both an AOI and NAND circuit design.
Conclusion
1. How did the AOI implementation of the Majority Vote – Voting Machine created by the Logic Converter compare to the design that you completed manually in the previous lesson?
A lot less chips.
2. In terms of hardware efficiency, how does the NAND Only implementation compare to the AOI implementation?
NAND uses more wire than AOI and they both use the same number of chips.
Though the logic converter is a very powerful tool, it does have some limitations. What are these limitations?
you can only have a certain number of inputs.
the converter doesn't always give the simplest circuits.
Now that you are all experts at logic simplification using Boolean algebra and K-Mapping and can implement virtually any combinational design using AOI, NAND, and NOR gates, it’s time to let you in on a little secret. A tool located within the Multisim Circuit Design Software, called the Logic Converter, can do much of this work for you. You might be asking yourself why you weren’t given this tool sooner. As an engineer you need to know how to design these types of circuits with and without the aid of such tools. Besides, who do you think designs tools like the Logic Converter? That’s right, an engineer.
In this activity you will complete a brief tutorial and use the Logic Converter to create and simulate both an AOI and NAND circuit design.
Conclusion
1. How did the AOI implementation of the Majority Vote – Voting Machine created by the Logic Converter compare to the design that you completed manually in the previous lesson?
A lot less chips.
2. In terms of hardware efficiency, how does the NAND Only implementation compare to the AOI implementation?
NAND uses more wire than AOI and they both use the same number of chips.
Though the logic converter is a very powerful tool, it does have some limitations. What are these limitations?
you can only have a certain number of inputs.
the converter doesn't always give the simplest circuits.