Compound Circuit Design

Abstract

Compound circuits are sequential control circuits consisting of several individual. sequential programs merged into one common circuit, with selection provision for each individual program. This type of circuit design is often used on multiple-purpose machines where a variety of products is produced with the same machine and where individual circuits have proved to be uneconomical. The Karnaugh-Veitch mapping method is ideal for this type of circuit and is (in the author’s opinion) the only feasible method of compound circuit design.