IGCSE CS (0478) P1 NOTES BY AWAB AQIB

CHAPTER 1.3: HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE

1.3.1 Logic Gates & Circuits

TRUTH TABLES OF LOGIC CIRCUITS

Logic Level Logical Value Binary Value Switch Value

High True 1 On
Low False 0 Off

-Logic gates serve as the building blocks to digital logic circuits using combinational logic
-Many electronic circuits operate using binary logic gates
-Logic gates basically process signals which represent true or false or the equivalent i.e. ON
or OFF, 1 or 0

AND Gate: (A . B) OR Gate: (A + B)

-is only true when both inputs are -is only true when either of the input is
true/1/On/High true/1/On/High

NAND GATE: (A . B) Complement)

NOT GATE: (A Complement) -a NOT AND gate
-inverts the input -whatever the output an AND would give
-is the only single input logic gate to an input, NAND would invert it

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NOR GATE: (A + B) Complement) XOR/EOR GATE: (A ⊕ B)

-a NOT OR gate Complement)
-whatever the output an OR would give to -an Exclusive OR gate
an input, NOR would invert it -is only true when both the inputs are
different

TRUTH TABLES OF INPUTS

-if the logic circuit/network has only 2 inputs then the truth table for them is:
-total combinations are 22=4

A B
0 0
0 1
1 0
1 1

-if the logic circuit/network has only 3 inputs then the truth table for them is:
-total combinations are 23=8
A B C
0 0 0
0 0 1
0 1 0
0 1 1
1 0 0
1 0 1
1 1 0
1 1 1

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-if the logic circuit/network has only 4 inputs then the truth table for them is:
-total combinations are 24=16
A B C D
0 0 0 0
0 0 0 1
0 0 1 0
0 0 1 1
0 1 0 0
0 1 0 1
0 1 1 0
0 1 1 1
1 0 0 0
1 0 0 1
1 0 1 0
1 0 1 1
1 1 0 0
1 1 0 1
1 1 1 0
1 1 1 1

Video explanation for combination of Logic Circuits:

https://youtu.be/BnB2m1nXZ84

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