I am trying to make a 4-bit full adder circuit using the 7000 series logic ics. I plan on using:
2x quad AND gates ic
2x quad OR gates ic
1x quad XOR gate ic
using this diagram:
My first question is, is this possible?
Secondly i know that the output would be in binary, is there any ic capable of converting this binary into decimal to drive a 7 segment display?
Thanks in Advance.
enough IC's
you could use an Arduino as convertor 
or a 4511 IC - http://www.nxp.com/documents/data_sheet/74HC_HCT4511_CNV.pdf -
haha i was thinking of the same thing! use the arduino to do that 
can i use the 4000 series logic ics with the 7000 series one?
Also will these ics do?
74LS08 Quad 2 i/p AND
74HC86 Quad EX-OR
74LS32 Quad 2-i/p OR
?????
MarkT
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I plan on using:
2x quad AND gates ic
2x quad OR gates ic
1x quad XOR gate ic
using this diagram:
File:Full-adder logic diagram.svg - Wikipedia
With that circuit I'd get 2x the XOR chip and 1x the OR chip. In fact I'd get a spare of each too in case one gets damaged...
I assume you have a good reason to do this in hardware, it can't be speed because the result goes to an LED for (presumably) a human to read.
Rob