Code Converter
Code converters:
The availability of a large variety of codes for the same discrete elements of
information results in the use of different codes by different digital systems. It is sometimes
necessary to use the output of one system as the input to another. A conversion circuit must be
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inserted between the two systems if each uses different codes for the same information. Thus a
code converter is a logic circuit whose inputs are bit patterns representing numbers (or
character) in one cod and whose outputs are the corresponding representation in a different
code. Code converters are usually multiple output circuits.
To convert from binary code A to binary code B, the input lines must supply the bit
combination of elements as specified by code A and the output lines must generate the
corresponding bit combination of code B. A combinational circuit performs this transformation
by means of logic gates.
For example, a binary –to-gray code converter has four binary input lines B4, B3,B2,B1 and four
gray code output lines G4,G3,G2,G1. When the input is 0010, for instance, the output should be
0011 and so forth. To design a code converter, we use a code table treating it as a truth table to
express each output as a Boolean algebraic function of all the inputs.
In this example, of binary –to-gray code conversion, we can treat the binary to the
gray code table as four truth tables to derive expressions for G4, G3, G2, and G1. Each of these
four expressions would, in general, contain all the four input variables B4, B3,B2,and B1.
Thus,this code converter is actually equivalent to four logic circuits, one for each of the truth
tables.
The logic expression derived for the code converter can be simplified using the usual
techniques, including ‗don‘t cares‘ if present. Even if the input is an unweighted code, the same
cell numbering method which we used earlier can be used, but the cell numbers --must
correspond to the input combinations as if they were an 8-4-2-1 weighted code. s
Design of a 4-bit binary to gray code converter:
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Design of a 4-bit gray to Binary code converter:
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Design of a 4-bit BCD to XS-3 code converter:
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Design of a BCD to gray code converter:
Design of a SOP circuit to Detect the Decimal numbers 5 through 12 in a 4-bit gray code
Input:
Design of a SOP circuit to detect the decimal numbers 0,2,4,6,8 in a 4-bit 5211 BCD code
input:
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Design of a Combinational circuit to produce the 2’s complement of a 4-bit binary number:
Comparators:
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1. Magnitude Comparator:
1- bit Magnitude Comparator:
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