Product-of-sums canonical form

• Formally: The conjunctive normal form

  • Also called a maxterm expansion
  • F(A,B,C) = ? M(0,2,4)

A B C F F'0 0 0 0 1

0 0 1 1 0

0 1 0 0 1

0 1 1 1 0

1 0 0 0 1

1 0 1 1 0

1 1 0 1 0

1 1 1 1 0

000 010 100F = (A + B + C) (A + B' + C) (A' + B + C)

F' = (A+B+C')(A+B'+C')(A'+B+C')(A'+B'+C)(A'+B'+C')

maxterm

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