If an engineer needs to simplify a complex combinational logic circuit used in a washing machine's control system, which methodology directly achieves this minimization?

💡 Explanation

Karnaugh maps provide a visual method to simplify Boolean expressions; because they group adjacent terms, the number of logic gates required is reduced. Therefore, minimizing the circuit complexity is achieved, rather than compression techniques like Huffman coding.

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