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Quine-McCluskey<br />

Quine McCluskey Method<br />

A systematic simplification procedure<br />

Input: Input:<br />

minterm expansion<br />

Output: Output:<br />

a minimum sum of products<br />

Method: Method<br />

1. Generate all prime implicants<br />

Eliminate as many literals as possible from each<br />

term by systematically applying the theorem<br />

XY+XY’=X XY+XY =X<br />

2. Find the minimum solution<br />

Use a prime implicant chart to select a minimum<br />

set of prime implicants which contain a minimum<br />

number of literals.<br />

1.<br />

2.<br />

Unit 06 5

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