Prime Implicants discussion with help of Karnaugh map (K-map).

What do you mean by prime Implicants?

Final product term obtained from K-map after combining all possible adjacent squares is known as Prime Implicant.  

What are Essential Terms ?

When one Minterm can only be represented by one Prime Implicant then it is called essential term. 

Why it is required ?

It helps in determining other possible simplifications for functions with multiple variables.

Can you explain it with a example?

Yes, check below

Example :- Consider a function F (x, y, z, w) of 11 Minterms shown in Truth Table

Truth Table

Prime implicants example

Gate level minimization of above example is explained in next section.

LTE - 4G Wireless Technology

Digital fundamentals.

Interview Questions.

Tutorials @fullchipdesign.com

Verilog Tutorial.

LTE Tutorial.

Memory Tutorial.

Hope you liked! this page. Don't forgot to access relevant previous and next sections with links below.