Essential prime implicant

{
  "id": "MLC-T-IND-002085",
  "term": "Essential prime implicant",
  "field": "Industrial and trades",
  "definition": "A prime implicant in a Boolean function that covers at least one minterm that no other prime implicant covers. These are necessary components in the minimal sum-of-products expression for a given Boolean function. Identifying essential prime implicants is a key step in logic circuit minimization using Karnaugh maps.",
  "subject": "Electrical engineering",
  "translations": {
    "de": "wesentlicher Primär-Implikant",
    "es": "implicante primo esencial",
    "fr": "impliquant premier essentiel"
  },
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/industrial/essential-prime-implicant/"
}