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Which gates are ideal for checking the parity bits?(a) AND(b) NAND(c) EX-OR(d) EX-NORThe question was posed to me during an online exam.I'd like to ask this question from Parity Generators/Checkers topic in section Combinational Circuits of Digital Circuits

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Right choice is (c) EX-OR

Explanation: Exclusive-OR gates are ideal for CHECKING the PARITY of a BINARY number because they produce an output when the input has an odd number of 1’s. Therefore, an even-parity input to an EX-OR gate produces a low output, while an odd parity input produces a high output. While, in case of AND, it produces high output when all inputs are 1 ELSE low. Whereas, NAND, does the opposite, by producing low output when all inputs are 1 else high.



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