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Q.Draw the NAND gate equivalent circuit of Half Subtractor.
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A half subtractor's outputs, Difference and Borrow , are both realized using only 2-input NAND gates.
A half subtractor subtracts one bit B from another bit A. From its truth table the Difference is (it is 1 whenever the two inputs differ) and the Borrow is (a borrow is required only when and ).
Because NAND is a universal gate, both outputs are produced with NAND gates alone. The XOR needed for the difference is the classic four-NAND network: Gate 1 forms ; Gate 2 forms ; Gate 3 forms ; and Gate 4 combines the Gate-2 and Gate-3 outputs as , which is the Difference …
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