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Digital Fundamentals

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1. A type of semiconductor memory that stores data in the form of charge packets and is serially accessed






2. Stands for Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor and is implemented with a type of field transistor






3. A digital circuit capable of counting electronic events - such as pulses - by progressing through a sequence of binary states.






4. A semiconductor device that conducts current in only one direction






5. The process of producing an output carry in full- adder when both input bits are 1s.






6. A type of magnetic tape format






7. Voltage Divider Rule in determining TEC Thevenin Equivalence Circuit






8. A code within DOS that allows various operations on files and includes a primitive assembler; to eliminate a problem in hardware or software.






9. A combination of input literals that cannot occur and can be used as a 1 or 0 on a Karnaugh Map for simplification

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10. A programming language that uses English like words and has a one- to- one correspondence to machine language






11. The unit of electrical current






12. A complex programmable logic device that consists basically of muliple SPLD arrays with programmable interconnections.






13. Information in numeric - alphabetic - or other form.






14. A digital circuit device that converts coded information into another (familiar) or noncoded form






15. The application of a dc voltage to an electronic device to produce a desired mode of operation






16. An electrical device consisting of two conductive plates separated by an insulating material and possessing the property of capacitance.






17. An energy source that uses a chemical reaction to convert chemical energy into electrical energy.






18. Altera HDL; a nonstandard HDL






19. The average of a sine wave over one half- cycle. It is 0.637 times the peak value.






20. Describes a number system with a base of ten






21. A transformer in which the primary and secondary are in a single winding






22. Consisting of numerals - letters - and other characters






23. The law that states ORing several variables and then ANDing the single variable with each of the several variables and the ORing the product






24. In a PLD - a matrix formed by rows of product- term lines columns of input lines with a programmable cell at each junctions. In VHDL - an array is an ordered set of individual items called elements with a single identifier name.






25. A basic logic operation in which a true(high) output occurs only when all the input conditions are true (high)






26. The normal level of a pulse waveform; the voltage level in the absence of a pulse.






27. American National Standards Institute






28. The current left after the total load current is subtracted from the total current into the circuit






29. The ability of a capacitor to store electrical charge.






30. The portion of the CPU that interfaces with the system buses and fetches instructions - reads operands - and writes results.






31. Bipolar junction transistor; a semiconductor device used for switching or amplification. A BJT has two junctions - the base- emitter junction and the base- collector junction






32. A receiving device on a bus






33. Dual in - line memory module






34. The actual current in a branch






35. A group of eight bits






36. In addition (ORing) and multiplication (ANDing) of two variables the order in which the variables are ORed or ANDed makes no difference






37. Arithmetic Logic Unit; the key processing element of a microprocessor that perfoms arithmetic and logic operations.






38. A method for the automated testing of printed circuit boards in which the board is mounted on a fixture that resembles a bed of nails that makes contact with test points






39. A software compiler language for SPLD programming; a type of hardware description language (HDL)






40. The inverse of opposite of a number - in Boolean algebra - the inverse function - expressed with a bar over the variable. The complement of a 1 is a 0 - and vice versa






41. Digital audio tape; a type of magnetic tape format






42. A circuit that prevents loading of an input or output






43. American wire gauge; a standardization based on wire diameter






44. The process or sequence of operations carried out to program a target device






45. The process of converting an analog signal to digital form






46. A combined coder and decoder






47. American Standard Code for Information Interchange; the most widely used alphanumeric code.






48. Characterized by ten states or values






49. Basic input/output system; a set of programs in ROM that interfaces the I/) devices in a computer system






50. In Boolean algebra - the AND operation