{"id":4492,"date":"2025-03-17T12:02:10","date_gmt":"2025-03-17T06:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/study.madeeasy.in\/?p=4492"},"modified":"2025-07-16T14:19:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T08:49:15","slug":"the-nand-gate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madeeasy.in\/study\/ee\/boolean-algebra\/the-nand-gate","title":{"rendered":"The NAND Gate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The NAND gate and NOR gate are called Universal gates because they can perform all the three basic functions of AND, OR and NOT gates.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\">The NAND Gate<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The NAND gate is a AND gate followed by NOT gate. Thus, we can say, it is a NOT-AND operation. It may have two or more inputs but only one output. The logical symbols and truth table of a NAND gate are,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4493 size-full aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/study.madeeasy.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/nand_gate.jpg\" alt=\"NAND Gate\" width=\"595\" height=\"238\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.madeeasy.in\/study\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/nand_gate.jpg 595w, https:\/\/www.madeeasy.in\/study\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/nand_gate-300x120.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 595px) 100vw, 595px\" \/><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>In NAND gate output is exact inverse of the AND gate for all possible input combinations.<\/li>\n<li>The OR gate with inverted inputs is called bubbled OR gate or negative OR gate. The NAND gate is also called active low OR gate.<\/li>\n<li>The switching circuit diagram for a NAND gate is,<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4494 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/study.madeeasy.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/circuit-diagram.jpg\" alt=\"Circuit Diagram\" width=\"521\" height=\"656\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.madeeasy.in\/study\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/circuit-diagram.jpg 521w, https:\/\/www.madeeasy.in\/study\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/circuit-diagram-238x300.jpg 238w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 521px) 100vw, 521px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a class=\"btn btn-danger\" role=\"button\" href=\"https:\/\/study.madeeasy.in\/ee\/boolean-algebra\/basic-gates\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&lt;&lt; Previous<\/a> | <a class=\"btn btn-success\" role=\"button\" href=\"https:\/\/study.madeeasy.in\/ee\/boolean-algebra\/the-nor-gate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Next &gt;&gt;<\/a><br \/>\n<strong> Must Read: <\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/study.madeeasy.in\/subjects\/what-is-boolean-algebra\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>What is Boolean algebra?<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NAND gate and NOR gate are called Universal gates because they can perform all the three basic functions of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1291,5],"tags":[1318,1457,1317,1316,1459,1427,1436,1443,1460,1456,1458],"class_list":["post-4492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boolean-algebra","category-ee","tag-active-low-or-gate","tag-boolean-algebra","tag-bubbled-or-gate","tag-circuit-diagram","tag-circuit-simplification","tag-digital-circuits","tag-digital-logic","tag-logic-gates","tag-logic-operations","tag-nand-gate","tag-nand-truth-table"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madeeasy.in\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madeeasy.in\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madeeasy.in\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madeeasy.in\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madeeasy.in\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.madeeasy.in\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4492\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madeeasy.in\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madeeasy.in\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madeeasy.in\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}