Notes on Logic Gates

List of Commonly used IC Numbers for Logic gates
IC 7404 – 2 Input -NOT Gate
IC 7432 – 2 Input -OR Gate
IC 7408 - 2 Input -AND Gate
IC7400- 2 Input -NAND Gate
IC7402 - 2 Input -NOR Gate
IC7486 – Quad 2 Input –EX-OR Gate
IC74266 – Quad 2 Input –EX-NOR Gate 


Introduction to Digital Logic Gates :A Digital Logic Gate is an electronic device that makes logical decisions based on the different combinations of digital signals present on its inputs. A digital logic gate may have more than one input but only has one digital output. Standard commercially available digital logic gates are available in two basic families or forms, TTL which stands for Transistor-Transistor Logic such as the 7400 series, and CMOS which stands for Complementary Metal-Oxide-Silicon which is the 4000 series of chips. This notation of TTL or CMOS refers to the logic technology used to manufacture the integrated circuit, (IC) or a "chip" as it is more commonly called.
Classification of Integrated Circuits 
1.     Small Scale Integration or (SSI) - Contain up to 10 transistors or a few gates within a single package such as AND, OR, NOT gates. 
2.     Medium Scale Integration or (MSI) - between 10 and 100 transistors or tens of gates within a single package and perform digital operations such as adders, decoders, counters, flip-flops and multiplexers. 
3.     Large Scale Integration or (LSI) - between 100 and 1,000 transistors or hundreds of gates and perform specific digital operations such as I/O chips, memory, arithmetic and logic units.
4.     Very-Large Scale Integration or (VLSI) - between 1,000 and 10,000 transistors or thousands of gates and perform computational operations such as processors, large memory arrays and programmable logic devices.
5.     Super-Large Scale Integration or (SLSI) - between 10,000 and 100,000 transistors within a single package and perform computational operations such as microprocessor chips, micro-controllers, basic PICs and calculators.
6.     Ultra-Large Scale Integration or (ULSI) - more than 1 million transistors - the big boys that are used in computers CPUs, GPUs, video processors, micro-controllers, FPGAs and complex PICs.

Digital Logic States : The Digital Logic Gate is the basic building block from which all digital electronic circuits and microprocessor based systems are constructed from. Basic digital logic gates perform logical operations of AND, OR and NOT on binary numbers.

In digital logic design only two voltage levels or states are allowed and these states are generally referred to as Logic "1" and Logic "0", High and Low, or True and False. A good example of a digital signal is a simple light as it is either "ON" or "OFF" but not both at the same time.

The Logic "AND" Gate :

A Logic AND Gate is a type of digital logic gate that has an output which is normally at logic level "0" and only goes "HIGH" to a logic level "1" when ALL of its inputs are at logic level "1". The output state of a "Logic AND Gate" only returns "LOW" again when ANY of its inputs are at a logic level "0". In other words for a logic AND gate, any LOW input will give a LOW output.


The logic or Boolean expression given for a logic AND gate is that for Logical Multiplication which is denoted by a single dot or full stop symbol, ( . ) giving us the Boolean expression of:  A.B = Q.

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