Friday, November 03, 2006

Solving Karnaugh maps ain't like dustin' crops, boy!

I've found a new toy to play with. Recently, I pulled out my EE textbooks with the goal of re- familiarizing myself with things that I have forgotten. One of the things that I have been playing with is my old favorite the Karnaugh Map. I had forgotten how much fun it is to solve K-maps by hand. I think that they are a lot more interesting than wasting time with suduko. There is something practical that can result from simplifying a Boolean functions using a K-map. After playing around with several functions, I wondered if anyone had taken the time to create software to simplify a K-map (I was almost certain someone had). I found a neat open source application at http://k-map.sourceforge.net/#top to do just that. Now to all I have to do is get around to spending a little time playing with the software. I wonder if I can get it to run on my Pocket PC.

Monday, July 24, 2006

The Beach

At the beach. I'll be right back.