Karnaugh maps are often made out as something special, but it's nothing more than a graphical brute-force method. Thus, useful for pen-and-paper up to 5-6 bit l

Karnaugh maps are often made out as something special, but it's nothing more than a graphical brute-force method. Thus, useful for pen-and-paper up to 5-6 bit logic functions but no better than exhaustive testing for a computer. There seems to be little emphasis on the "why" in Computer Architecture courses.