Logic Gates are the fundamental building blocks in
digital electronics. There are basically seven main types
of logic gates which are used to perform various logical
operations in digital systems.
What is a Logic Gate?
A logic gates are an electronic circuit that are designed by
using electrical components like diodes, transistors, resistors,
and more. It is used to perform logical operations based on
the inputs provided to it and gives logical output that can be
either high(1) or low(0).
The operation of logic gates is based on the Boolean algebra or
mathematics. Logic gate founds its uses in our day to day basis such as
in the architecture of our telephone, laptops, tablets an memory devices.
Types of Logic Gates
Logic gates can be broadly classified into three main categories
• AND GATE
An AND gate is used to perform logical Multiplication of binary input. The
Output state of the AND gate will be high(1) if both the input are
high(1) ,else the output state will be low(0) if any of the input is low(0).
The Boolean Expression or logic for the AND gate is the
logical multiplication of inputs denoted by a full stop or
single dot as.
• A.B=X
The value of X will be True when both the inputs will be True.
• Properties of AND Gate
• The following are two main properties of the AND gate
• AND gate can accept two or more than two input values at a time.
• When all of the inputs are logic 1, the output of this gate is logic 1.
OR GATE
• OR GATE is most widely used digital logic circuit. The
output state of OR gate will be high i.e.,(1) if any of the
input state is high or 1, else output state will be low i.e., 0.
• The Boolean Expression for the OR gate is the logical
addition of inputs denoted by plus sign(+) as
X= A+B
The value of X will be high(true) when one of the inputs is set
to high (true).
Properties of OR Gate
An OR gate have the following two properties:
•It can have two or more input lines at a time.
•When all of the inputs to the OR gate are low or logic 0, the output of it is low or
logic 0.
NOT GATE
• In digital electronics, the NOT gate is one of the
basic logic gate having only a single input and a
single output. It is also known as inverter or
inverting buffer. When the input signal is “low” the
output signal is “high” and vice-versa.
The Boolean expression of NOT Gate is as follows:
• Y = Ā or
• Y = A’
• the value of Y will be high when A will be low.
Properties of NOT Gate
The output of a NOT gate is complement or
inverse of the input applied to it.
NOT gate takes only one output.