DIGITAL FUNDAMENTALS

LAB #5

BINARY ADDERS

Objective
To examine binary adders using logic gates and the 74283 4 bit parallel binary adder.

Equipment
1. Lab experimenter board
2. Parts Kit
3. Any ICs not in your kit

PROCEDURE
1. Construct the circuit of figure 1. Note that it is simpler than your design from lab #3
since we have utilized an XOR gate.

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Figure 1 Half Adder

2. Using your circuit complete the truth table and confirm that it is in fact half adding

A B CARRY SUM
0 0
0 1
1 0
1 1
Half Adder Truth Table

NOTE: The circuit is called a half adder because it can only handle two inputs
and when cascaded to handle, for example two 4 bit numbers it cannot
handle a carry bit which may result from a previous addition.

3. To deal with a third input which will result from carries you will now construct a
Full Adder and test it.

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 Construct the circuit of figure 2.

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Figure 2. Full Adder

4. Test the circuit by using it to complete the truth table following:

A B C CARRY SUM
0 0 0
0 0 1
0 1 0
0 1 1
1 0 0
1 0 1
1 1 0
1 1 1
Full Adder Truth Table

Naturally life is much easier if we use an IC designed specifically for binary addition!
So your last job is to use a 7483 4 bit parallel adder to add two 4 bit binary numbers.

4. Connect the circuit of figure 3 which will add two 4 bit binary numbers. Note that in
labeling the inputs that the highest order bit for each number has the subscript 4, the
next lower bit the subscript 3 and so on.

Example: A4 A3 A2 A1
1 0 1 0 (decimal # 10)

8 bit 4 bit 2 bit 1 bit

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A4 A3 A2 A1 B4 B3 B2 B1
Figure 3
C4 74283 C0
4 Bit Parallel Adder
4 3 2 1

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5. Using your circuit complete the partial truth table shown:

A4 A3 A2 A1 B4 B3 B2 B1 C4 4 3 2 1
0 1 1 0 0 0 1 0
1 0 0 1 0 0 1 1
0 0 1 0 0 0 0` 1
1 1 0 1 0 1 1 1
1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
4 BIT NUMBER A 4 BIT NUMBER B CARRY 4 BIT SUM

ASSIGNMENT:
Connect two 74283s together to add two 8 bit binary numbers, label all connections
properly