Switches – Better Way to Plan a Circuit to Square a 3 Bits Binary Number

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I need to plan a circuit that will square a 3 bit binary number:
$$\{Y_2, Y_1, Y_0\} \rightarrow \{S_5,S_4,S_3,S_2,S_1,S_0\} $$

I thought of the common way we multiply numbers and used it to plan the circuit (as you can see in the top left of the attached picture)

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What do you think? Is there a better way to do the following using the basic gates, FA, HA and MUX?

Best Answer

Of course there is.

First we write out the truth table:

 Y    S
000 000000
001 000001
010 000100
011 001001
100 010000
101 011001
110 100100
111 110001

We notice right away that S0 = Y0, S1 = 0, and S5 = Y1 * Y2. Let's remove those.

 Y   S
210 432
000 000
001 000
010 001
011 010
100 100
101 110
110 001
111 100

And now we see that S2 = Y1 * !Y0, S3 = Y0 * (Y1 ^ Y2), and S4 = Y2 * (!Y1 + Y0) = Y2 * !S2. Since you now have all 6 equations for the bits in S, building a logic circuit for it is easy, and left as an exercise for the reader.

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