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MINTERM(10.5) MINTERM(10.5) NAME minterm - minterm file format DESCRIPTION The minterm file format consists of at least one binary valued function definition. A function definition begins .o n ... followed by line(s) that have the form term:mask ... The first n following .o is a numeric symbol of the function (usually an output pin number of a rom or pal integrated circuit). Any other n's are numeric symbols of input binary variables. Term and mask are decimal numbers. There is a correspondence between the bits of the numbers in binary representation and the input symbols, the first input symbol is associ- ated with the least significant bit. The meaning of a bit with value 1 in mask is `do care', and the meaning of a bit with value 1 in term is `input must be 1'. Thus the term:mask is a implicant, and a set of them when or'ed together describes the input conditions for which the output symbol will have a value of 1. For example: .o 3 1 2 3:3 .o 4 1 2 1:3 2:3 3:3 .o 5 2 3 1:3 2:3 .o 11 .o 9 0:0 Output 3 is the and function of inputs 1 and 2; output 4 is the or function of inputs 1 and 2 (quine(10.1) would change this to 1:1 2:2); output 5 is the exclusive-or function of inputs 2 and 3; output 11 is a constant 0 and output 9 is a constant 1. SEE ALSO lde(10.1), quine(10.1), cover(10.1), hazard(10.1), pal(10.1) UCDS MINTERM(10.5)