Half Adder in Digital Logic
Half Adder (HA):
Half adder is the simplest of all adder circuits. Half adder is a combinational arithmetic circuit that adds two numbers and produces a sum bit (s) and carry bit (c) both as output. The addition of 2 bits is done using a combination circuit called a Half adder. The input variables are augend and addend bits and output variables are sum & carry bits. A and B are the two input bits.
let us consider two input bits A and B, then sum bit (s) is the X-OR of A and B. it is evident from the function of a half adder that it requires one X-OR gate and one AND gate for its construction.
Truth Table:
Here we perform two operations Sum and Carry, thus we need two K-maps one for each to derive the expression.
Logical Expression:
For Sum:
Sum = A XOR B
For Carry:
Carry = A AND B
Implementation:
Note: Half adder has only two inputs and there is no provision to add a carry coming from the lower order bits when multi addition is performed.
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