Readings - Simplification

Designing Computer Systems: Simplification

There is a fun freeware tool available at http://www.puz.com/sw/karnaugh/karnaugh_12.htm that lets you define a truth table and see the resulting implicants in real-time. To eliminate some some hazzard conditions (not covered in this class), it sometimes adds unnecessary prime implicants to the final expression; DON'T DO THIS ON THE TEST; IT WILL BE WRONG. It also shows the CMOS implementation for the expression.