Combination Circuits

Multiplexers

It is a combinational circuit which selects one of the 2n input lines and transmits the information from that line to the output line. The selection of the input line depends upon the ‘n’ input selection lines. It is also called data selector and is also referred to by only MUX. Smallest MUX we have is 2 to 1 […]

Combination Circuits

Encoder

This digital circuit does exact opposite of the function of a decoder. It converts the information from 2 n to n lines. The truth table is: We can easily design the circuit diagram from this table. How ever if mistakenly we have ‘1’ at two of the inputs then we’ll have wrong answer from the circuit. But […]

Combination Circuits

Demultiplexer

It is a combinational circuit which receives 1-bit information and puts this information on the line which is selected by the binary input on the selection lines. This is different from decoder circuit as there is also an information line and we don’t have to put 1 every time on output (as in decoder) but […]

Combination Circuits

Decoders

n to m decoder is the combinational circuit which convert binary information from n lines of input to m lines of output and m=<2 n. Let’s have an example of 3 to 8 decoder. This encoder just puts the 1 on the line which is equal to the decimal equivalent of binary number abc2 at the […]

Combination Circuits

2-bit COMPARATOR

Similarly we can have 2 bit comparator and the table to list all the combinations at input and their corresponding outputs is as: A             B             f (A>B)  f (A=B) f (A<B) 00           00           0              1              0 01           00           1              0              0 10           00           1              0              0 11           00           1              0              0 00           01           0              0              […]