EI181305 – Digital Electronics

Combinational Logic Circuits:

Decoders and Encoders
Decoder

● A decoder is a combinational circuit that converts binary information from n-input

lines to a maximum of 2n output lines

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Encoders

● An encoder is a digital circuit that performs the inverse operation of a decoder.

An encoder has 2n (or fewer) input lines and n output lines

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