Conversion of NAND gate to Basic gates

NAND Gate is created by applying NOT operation to an AND gate. Hence, the outputs of this gate are opposite to that of AND gate when the inputs are kept same. Shown below are the symbol and truth table for NAND gate.

Fig. 1 : Symbolic Representation Of NAND gate

Input		Output
A	B	Y
0	0	1
0	1	1
1	0	1
1	1	0

Basic logic gates consist of three basic logic gates namely NOT, AND and OR. Each of them performs a different logic function. We can derive logical function or any Boolean or logic expression by combination of these gate. Shown here are the logical method and the circuit through which one can obtain all the basic gates by only using NAND gates.

To understand the conversion we have to first understand the working of individual gates-

1.NOT Gate- This is the simplest form of a digital logic circuit . It is also called as inverter. It consists of only one input and one output. Input can only be binary number it may be one or zero. NOT gate is a logic element whose output stage is always the complement of the input stage means when you supply logic 1 we will logic 0 and vice versa. Now how many stage are possible is calculated by 2ⁿ (where n is the number of input) means hear we have input equal to 1 so number of stage possible is 0 and 1 (2¹). Truth table of NOT gate is as follows-

Input(2¹)	Output
A	Y=NOT A
0	1
1	0

2.AND Gate- It is logic circuit has two input and one output. The operation of gate is such that output of gate is binary 1 if and only if all input are binary 1. If any of the input is binary 0 we will receive output as binary 0. Truth table of AND gate are as follows-

Number of stage possible = 2ⁿ

=2² = 4

Input		Output
A	B	Y=A.B
0	0	0
0	1	0
1	0	0
1	1	1

3.OR Gate-Or gate is another basic logic gate like AND gate it as two input and one output. The operation of gate is such that output of gate is binary 1 if any of the input is binary low and we will receive logic zero only when both the inputs are low. Truth table of OR gate are as follows-

Number of stage possible = 2ⁿ

=2² = 4

Input		Output
A	B	Y=A+B
0	0	0
0	1	1
1	0	1
1	1	1

4.NAND Gate- The term NAND is a contraction of the expression NOT and AND gate. Therefore a NAND gate is an AND gate followed by the inverter. The operation of gate is such that output of gate is binary 1 if any of the input is binary low and we will receive logic zero only when both the inputs are high. Truth table and expression of NAND gate are as follows-