Some Further Studies on Determination of all the Minimal Prime Implicant Covers of Switching Functions†
Avik Kumar Choudhury, SUNIL RANJAN DAS · International Journal of Control · 1965
A method of determination of all the minimal prime implicant covers of switching functions by utilizing their connected cover term matrices is suggested in the paper. The method presented is an extension of the technique suggested by the authors in a previous paper (Choudhury and Das 1964). When majority of the prime implicants of a switching function will occur in more than two different columns of the cover table, it is shown that the determination of all the minimal prime implicant covers can often be greatly facilitated by initially dividing the cover table into more than two suitable sub-tables.