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Combinational Circuits

The document describes two types of digital circuits: combinational and sequential circuits. Combinational circuits, such as multiplexers, demultiplexers, decoders, and encoders, produce outputs based solely on current inputs without memory. Sequential circuits, on the other hand, utilize memory elements to store previous states for determining future outputs, commonly used in state machines and counters.

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Combinational Circuits

The document describes two types of digital circuits: combinational and sequential circuits. Combinational circuits, such as multiplexers, demultiplexers, decoders, and encoders, produce outputs based solely on current inputs without memory. Sequential circuits, on the other hand, utilize memory elements to store previous states for determining future outputs, commonly used in state machines and counters.

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Combinational circuits

•Combinational circuits are digital circuits that produce outputs based solely on the current inputs.

•No clock pulse and memory elements (like flip-flops) are used, so the circuit has no memory of

past inputs or outputs.

•Common combinational circuits include logic gates, multiplexers, demultiplexers, encoders,

decoders, and adders.


Sequential circuits

•Sequential circuits are digital circuits that store and use the previous state information to

determine their next state.

•They are commonly used in digital systems to implement state machines, timers, counters

•The memory elements in sequential circuits can be implemented using flip-flops.


Multiplexers

•A Multiplexer (MUX) is a combinational circuit that

acts as a digital switch by directing one of the several

input lines to a single output.

•It is used in data selection, signal routing, and

resource optimization in digital circuits

•It is commonly found in ALUs, memory units, and

communication systems
Demultiplexers

•A Demultiplexer (DEMUX) is a combinational circuit

that acts as a data distributor that takes a single input

and routes it to one of multiple outputs based on the

select lines.

•It is widely used in data routing, memory decoders,

and communication systems.


Decoders

•A Decoder is a combinational circuit that converts

n-bit binary input into 2ⁿ unique output lines.

•It converts binary code into a set of outputs.

•Each output corresponds to one unique combination

of the input.

•Commonly used in memory address decoding,

instruction decoding in CPUs, and 7-segment display

control.
Encoders

•An Encoder is a combinational circuit that converts 2ⁿ

input lines into an n-bit binary code.

•It has multiple input lines but only one active input

at a time.

•It generates a unique binary output based on the

active input.

•It is used in applications such as priority encoders,

keyboard encoding, and data compression.

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