DEPARTMENT OF TECHNICAL EDUCATION

ANDHRA PRADESH
Name : G.MALLIKARJUN
Designation : Lecturer
Branch : Electronics & Communication Engg.
Institute : Govt. Polytechnic, Warangal.
Year/Semester : III semester
Subject : Digital Electronics
Subject Code : EC-304 (1/15)
Topic : Combinational Logic Circuits
Duration : 50 min
Sub Topic : Function of Half Adder
Teaching Aids : Animation & images.
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OBJECTIVE

On completion of this period, you would be able to learn:

• Combinational logic circuits

• Function of half adder

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Recap
• Logic gates are the decision making devices.

• Logic gates are the basic building blocks of logic circuits.

• Name some logic gates.

• AND gate
• OR gate
• NOT gate
• NAND gate
• OR gate
• XOR gate
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Combinational circuit

• Its output depends only on present inputs.

• Logic gates are the basic building blocks of

combinational circuits.

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EXAMPLES
• Half adder

• Full adder

• Multiplexer

• Decoder

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 Half adder

• It has two inputs and two outputs.

• It adds two bits (binary digits) and produces sum

and carry.

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Full adder

• It has three inputs and two outputs.

• It adds three bits and produces sum & carry outputs.

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Multiplexer

• A digital circuit that sends data from any one of many

lines on to a single line.

• Different data will be present at the multiple inputs.

• Out of these multiple inputs one is selected and send

to the output line.

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Decoder

• It converts binary data into other form such as

decimal, octal and hexadecimal etc.,

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Arithmetic circuit

The circuit which performs the arithmetic operations

like addition, subtraction, etc.

Ex: Half adder, Half Subtractor, Full adder, Full

subtractor

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HALF ADDER

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Block Diagram of Half adder

A SUM

INPUTS OUTPUTS
B HALF ADDER
CARRY

Fig 1

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Function of Half adder

• It performs two bit binary addition and produces the

sum and carry.

• It has two inputs and two outputs.

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Truth table of Half adder

A B CARRY SUM

0 0 0 0

0 1 0 1

1 0 0 1

1 1 1 0
Table 1

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Boolean Expression for sum & carry of Half adder

• Carry =A.B

• Sum =AB+AB = A + B

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Summary

In this period we have discussed about

• Half adder is a combinational logic circuit.

• It has two inputs and two outputs.

• It performs two bit binary addition.

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QUIZ

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1. In a combinational logic circuit output depends on

a) Present inputs only

c) Previous outputs only

e) Present inputs as well as previous outputs

g) None of the above

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2. Half adder is a circuit which

a) adds only two bits

c) adds only three bits

c) adds any number of bits

d) None of the above

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Frequently Asked Questions

1. What is the function of Half adder?

3. What is a combinational logic circuit?

5. Draw the truth table of Half adder?

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Assignment

• Briefly explain the combinational logic circuits.

• Explain the function of Half Adder?

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