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What is a universal gate?

Answer 1

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Introduction

A universal logic gate is a logic gate that can be used to construct all other logic gates. There are many articles about how NAND and NOR are universal gates, but many of these articles omit other gates that are also universal gates. This article covers two input logic gates, demonstrates that the NAND gate is a universal gate, and demonstrates how other gates are universal gates that can be used to construct any logic gate.

Answer 2

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A universal gate is a gate which can implement any Boolean function without need to use any other gate type. The NAND and NOR gates are universal gates. In practice, this is advantageous since NAND and NOR gates are economical and easier to fabricate and are the basic gates used in all IC digital logic families.