I got the Minterm already simplified: x'y'w' + yzw' + xz'w and the Maxterm: x'y'w' + yzw' + xz'w + x'zw', but they should be equal..
Thank you for answer! Yes, I got it. Here are both Maxterm and Minterm, but I need to simplify both of expressions and they should be equal.None of those are either minterm or maxterm expressions.
You have four variables, a minterm is a product involving all four and a maxterm is a sum of all four.
https://forum.allaboutcircuits.com/blog/boolean-logic-sop-and-pos-forms.583/
What you need to go between the two expressions in your title is an awareness of concensus terms.
https://forum.allaboutcircuits.com/blog/boolean-logic-working-with-consensus-terms.663/
Thank you so much! It helped.So you have a Boolean equation with the same 3 terms, but one side has an extra term (X'⋅Z⋅W'). Is this extra term a consensus term that is redundant and can be eliminated? One approach is to expand each 3-variable term in the equation into 4-variable minterms, e.g., (X'⋅Z⋅W')⋅(Y+Y') = (X'⋅Y⋅Z⋅W')+(X'⋅Y'⋅Z⋅W') then determine whether the minterms for the consensus term are contained within the minterm expansion of the other 3 terms. If the answer is YES then the consensus term is redundant and can be eliminated.
A recent post concerning consensus terms is here:
https://forum.allaboutcircuits.com/...-whats-the-simplest-way-to-prove-this.137259/
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