METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AN N-NARY LOGIC CIRCUIT

摘要

The present invention is a method and apparatus (106) for an N-NARY logic circuit that uses N-NARY signals (A0-A3, B0-B3). The present invention includes a shared logic tree circuit (107) that evaluates one or more N-NARY input signals and produces an N-NARY output signal (V0-V3). The present invention additionally includes a first N-NARY input signal (A0-A3) coupled to the shared logic tree circuit and a second N-NARY input signal (B0-B3) coupled to the shared logic tree circuit. The shared logic circuit evaluates the first and second N-NARY input signal and produces an N-NARY output signal (V0-V3) coupled, which additionally couples to the shared logic tree circuit. The present invention uses signals that include 1 of 2 N-NARY signals, 1 of 3 N-NARY signals, 1 of 4 N-NARY signals (A0-A3, B0-B3), 1 of 8 N-NARY signals, and the general 1 of N N-NARY signals. The present invention evaluates any given function that includes the AND/NAND, OR/NOR, or XOR/Equivalence functions.