I have a project and I am asked to find the sop form of f+g and find its cost and then compare it to the cost if I implement f and g separately.
I am trying to find SOP form of f+g and I am stack because f and g has nothing in common based on the form of and g that I've found:
f = x2'x5 + x1'x2'x4' + x2x4x5'
g = x1'x2' + x2x3' + x1x2x5
And based on those f+g = x2'x5 + x1'x2'x4' + x2x4x5' + x1'x2' + x2x3' + x1x2x5
Here are my karnaugh maps, f above, g below.
My question is: Should I keep what I have done? Or should I find new forms for f and g so that I can get a form for f + g that makes more sense?
Any tip or answer or any suggestion for my question is welcome. Thanks in advance.
Best Answer
The following three-valued $\{0, 1, X\}$ disjunctive truth table combines two inputs to one output:
Whenever at least one input is $true$, the output becomes $true$. Both inputs have to be $false$ to make the output $false$. Input combination of $false$ and don't care leads to output don't care.
Applied to your problem:
Resulting minimized expression for $f + g$: