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Digital Fundamentals
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The beginning address of a segment of memory
Base address
Decade Counter
Vx=(Vs * Rx) /RT
Counter
2. A type of semiconductor memory having capacitive storage cells that lose stored data over a period of time and therefore must be refreshed.
DRAM
Capacitance Reactance
BIOS
Dynamic Memory
3. A reduction of the output signal compared to the input signal - resulting in a ratio with a value of less than 1 for the output voltage to the input voltage of a circuit.
Comparator
Amplitude
BIOS
Attenuation
4. Digital Signal Processor; a special type of microprocessor that processes data in real time
Boolean addition
Bitstream
DSP
Kirchoff's Current Law(KCL)
5. The rotational rate of a phasor which is related to the frequency of the sine wave that the phasor represents
Angular Velocity
BJT
Access time
Bleeder Current
6. A circuit that selects data from several inputs one at a time in a sequence and places them on the output; also called a multiplexer.
Data Selector
Antifuse
Concurrency
Ampere- hour(Ah) rating
7. The main part of a computer responsible for control and processing of data; the core of a DSP that processes the program instructions
Branch
Delta Modulation
Central processing unit
Capacity
8. A electrical property of matter that exist because of an excess or a deficiency of electrons. Can be either positive or negative
Charge
Battery
Central processing unit
Asynchronous counter
9. A nominally continuous electrical signal that varies in amplitude or frequency in response to changes in sound - light - heat - position - or pressure.
Carry
Norton's Theorem
Ammeter
Analog
10. A condition where all the load currents are equal and the neutral current is zero
Balanced Load
Capacity
Band- stop filter
Decade Counter
11. The number of protons in a nucleus
Atom
Charge
Adjacency
Atomic number
12. The action of a circuit in which it accepts current into its output from a load
Average value
Current sinking
Boundary scan
Digital linear tape
13. The law that states ORing several variables and then ANDing the single variable with each of the several variables and the ORing the product
Distributive Law
Baseline
Clock
Bus arbitration
14. An asynchronous input used to reset a flip- flop (make the Q output 0); to place a register or counter in the state in which it contains all 0's
ANSI
Ampere- hour(Ah) rating
Balanced Load
Clear
15. In Boolean algebra - the AND operation
Acceptor
Amplitude
Combinational logic
Boolean multiplication
16. In a division operation the quantity that is being divided
Circuit
Binary coded decimal
Dividend
Autotransformer
17. The basic timing signal in a digital system; a periodic waveform in which the interval between pulses equals the time for one bit; the triggering input of a flip- flop
Thevenin Equivalent Circuit
Carry
Control Bus
Clock
18. An electrical device consisting of two conductive plates separated by an insulating material and possessing the property of capacitance.
Cache memory
Associative law
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Capacitor
19. The process of rippling an input carry to become the output carry in a full- adder when either or both of the input bits are 1's and the input carry is a 1
Capacity
Carry propagation
Data Sheet
Delta Modulation
20. A set of interconnections that interface one or more devices based on a standardized specification
Bus
Dual in - line package
Bus contention
ABEL(Advance Boolean Expression Language)
21. 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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22. Basic input/output system; a set of programs in ROM that interfaces the I/) devices in a computer system
Boundary scan
BIOS
Control Bus
Binary coded decimal
23. 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.
Carry generation
Cache memory
Array
DRAM
24. One current path in a parallel circuit; a current path that connects two nodes
Atom
Architecture
Branch
Bus arbitration
25. A digital circuit that compares the magnitudes of two quantiities and produces an output indicating the relationship of the quantities
BJT
Thevenin Equivalent Circuit
ALU
Comparator
26. A bidirectional set of conductive paths on which data or instruction codes are transferred into a microprocessor or on which the result of an operation is sent out from the microprocessor
CMOS Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor
Capacitance Reactance
Data bus
Data
27. A code within DOS that allows various operations on files and includes a primitive assembler; to eliminate a problem in hardware or software.
Dependency notation
Bus
Debug
Aliasing
28. The maximum value of a voltage or current
Decrement
Atomic number
bed- of- nails
Amplitude
29. A type of PLD nonvolatile programmable link that can be left open or can be shorted once as directed by the program
Bias
Clock
Boolean multiplication
Antifuse
30. Stands for Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor and is implemented with a type of field transistor
ASCII
CMOS
Antifuse
Dividend
31. The ability of a capacitor to store electrical charge.
Buffer
Base
Bidirectional shift Register
Capacitance
32. Arithmetic Logic Unit; the key processing element of a microprocessor that perfoms arithmetic and logic operations.
Bus interface unit
ALU
Dependency notation
Complement
33. A interconnection of electrical components designed to produce a desired result. A basic circuits consists of a source - a load and an interconnecting current path.
Boolean multiplication
Binary coded decimal
Circuit
Bus interface unit
34. The process or sequence of operations carried out to program a target device
Design flow
CPLD
Bode Plot
Amplitude
35. A class of integrated logic circuits that is implemented with a type of field effect transistor
Bus arbitration
ABEL(Advance Boolean Expression Language)
ANSI
CMOS Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor
36. An electrical instrument used to measure current
Amplitude
AHDL
Ammeter
Concurrency
37. A type of magnetic tape format
Bidirectional shift Register
Digital linear tape
Array
Boolean multiplication
38. The location of a given storage cell or group of cells in a memory; a unique memory location containing on byte
Address
Decade
Clock
Capacity
39. A circuit with a complete current path
Data bus
Analog- to- digital converter(ADC)
Base address
Closed circuit
40. Voltage Divider Rule in determining TEC Thevenin Equivalence Circuit
BIOS
Capacitor
Vx=(Vs * Rx) /RT
Data Sheet
41. American wire gauge; a standardization based on wire diameter
ASCII
Adjacency
AWG
Array
42. A filter that rejects a range of frequencies lying between two critical frequencies and passes frequencies above and below that range.
CPLD
Associative law
Cross - assembler
Band- stop filter
43. A method of analog- to- digital conversion using a 1- bit quantization process
Decade
Delta Modulation
Demultiplexer
CMOS Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor
44. A combination of logic gates interconnected to produce a specified Boolean function with no storage or memory capability; sometimes called combinatorial logic
Branch
CPLD
BJT
Combinational logic
45. A basic logic operation in which a true(high) output occurs only when all the input conditions are true (high)
AND
Bleeder Current
ASCII
Bias
46. A VHDL feature that can be used to predefine the logic function for multiple use throughout a program or programs
bed- of- nails
Addend
Augend
Component
47. The unit of electrical current
ABEL(Advance Boolean Expression Language)
Ampere
Capacity
Associative law
48. To connect 'end- to- end' as when several counters are connected from the terminal count output of one counter to the enable input of the next counter
Battery
Bipolar
Dependency notation
Cascade
49. A method for internally testing a PLD based on the JTAG standard (IEEE std.)
DAT
Capacity
Boundary scan
Decoder
50. A logic circuit used to add two binary numbers
Data
Adder
Assembly language
Central processing unit