This document provides information about Karnaugh maps (k-maps), including: - K-maps are a pictorial representation of variables used to identify Boolean expressions or truth tables from grouping of minterms. - Basic k-maps include two, three, four, and five variable maps. Rules for mapping include grouping horizontally or vertically but not diagonally, and wrapping is only allowed for three variable maps. - Don't care conditions represented by 'x' can be used but all don't cares cannot be grouped as a single term. - K-maps are used to simplify Boolean expressions and design combinational and sequential logic circuits like adders. They provide an alternative to tabular methods