Are "the AND-OR forms of combinations" and "sum-of-products" exactly the same?
Are "the OR-AND forms of combinations" and "product-of-sums" exactly the same?
In "the AND-OR and OR-AND forms of combinations", is single NOT gate applied only to literals?
In "sum-of-products and product-of-sums", is single NOT gate applied only to literals?
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The terminology comes from Mano's Digital Design:
The sum-of-products and product-of-sums are mentioned in Section 2.6 Canonical and Standard Forms in Chapter 2 Boolean Algebra and Logic Gates,
and are simplified in Section 3.2 The Karnaugh Map Method and in Section 3.4 Product-of-Sums Simplification.
The AND-OR and OR-AND forms of combinations are mentioned in Section 3.7 Other Two-Level Implementations in Chapter 3 Gate-Level Minimization.
The types of gates most often found in integrated circuits are NAND and NOR gates. For this reason, NAND and NOR logic implementations are the most important from a practical point of view. Some (but not all) NAND or NOR gates allow the possibility of a wire connection between the outputs of two gates to provide a specific logic func- tion. This type of logic is called wired logic.
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