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Digital Fundamentals
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. In a pulse waveform - the height or maximum value of the pulse as measured from its low level.
Bistable
Amplitude
DCE
Decimal
2. The mathematics of logic circuits
Collector
Boolean algebra
Digital linear tape
Base
3. An energy source that uses a chemical reaction to convert chemical energy into electrical energy.
Bipolar
Battery
Analog- to- digital converter(ADC)
DTE
4. A type of magnetic tape format
Assembler
Charge- coupled device
Don't Care...
Digital linear tape
5. 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
Bistable
Complement
Branch
Balanced Load
6. A condition where all the load currents are equal and the neutral current is zero
Balanced Load
Bidirectional shift Register
Angular Velocity
DIMM
7. American wire gauge; a standardization based on wire diameter
AWG
Address Bus
Array
BEDO DRAM
8. A number given in ampere- hours determined by multiplying the current times the length of the time (h) a battery can deliver that current to a load
Ampere- hour(Ah) rating
Byte
Branch Current
Dividend
9. Data Communications equipment
DMA
Amplitude
Branch Current
DCE
10. A resettable protective device used for interrupting execessive current in an electric circuit
Circuit Breaker
Boolean multiplication
Clock
Boolean expression
11. A unit of the cross - sectional area of a wire.
Circular Mil (CM)
Attenuation
Collector
Circuit
12. A connection at the midpoint of a winding in a transformer
CMOS
Autotransformer
Center Tap
DTE
13. The application of a dc voltage to an electronic device to produce a desired mode of operation
Band- pass filter
Code
Bias
DSP
14. A receiving device on a bus
Demultiplexer
Acceptor
Array
Debug
15. A circuit that prevents loading of an input or output
Buffer
Circular Mil (CM)
Boolean addition
Don't Care...
16. A type of semiconductor memory having capacitive storage cells that lose stored data over a period of time and therefore must be refreshed.
Dynamic Memory
Architecture
Center Tap
Counter
17. American Standard Code for Information Interchange; the most widely used alphanumeric code.
Boolean algebra
ASCII
DTE
Closed circuit
18. The phasor combination of resistive power (true power) and reactive power. The unit is the volt- amperes (VA).
Bidirectional shift Register
Dual in - line package
Apparent power
Atom
19. In a division operation the quantity that is being divided
Bode Plot
Dividend
DSP
Binary coded decimal
20. In addition (ORing) and multiplication (ANDing) of two variables the order in which the variables are ORed or ANDed makes no difference
Commutative Law
Data Selector
CMOS Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor
Charge
21. A digital circuit that compares the magnitudes of two quantiities and produces an output indicating the relationship of the quantities
AND gate
Autotransformer
Comparator
Addend
22. A circuit with a complete current path
Decade Counter
Closed circuit
Balanced Bridge
Boundary scan
23. 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
Data bus
Carry generation
Attenuation
Balanced Load
24. The number of protons in a nucleus
Data
Charge- coupled device
Central processing unit
Atomic number
25. A set of conductive paths hat connects the CPU to other parts of the computer to coordinate its operations and to communicate with external devices
Admittance
Control Bus
Distributive Law
Bidirectional shift Register
26. In Boolean algebra - the AND operation
Amplitude
Boolean multiplication
Band- stop filter
Vx=(Vs * Rx) /RT
27. A notational system for logic symbols that specifies input and output relationships thus fully defining a given function
BIOS
Closed circuit
Dependency notation
Address Bus
28. In relation to VHDL feature that permits operations to be processed in a parallel;that is operations that occur simultaneously
Base
Concurrency
Counter
Combinational logic
29. A logic gate that produces a High output only when all of the inputs are HIGH
Diode
Bipolar
AND gate
Amplitude
30. The average of a sine wave over one half- cycle. It is 0.637 times the peak value.
Duty cycle
Decimal
Baseline
Average value
31. A combination of logic gates interconnected to produce a specified Boolean function with no storage or memory capability; sometimes called combinatorial logic
Combinational logic
Alphanumeric
Access time
Boundary scan
32. A program that translates an assembly language program for one type of microprocessor to an assembly language for another type of microprocessor
Battery
Bit
Center Tap
Cross - assembler
33. The digit generated when the sum of two binary digits exceeds 1
Circuit Breaker
Combinational logic
Bleeder Current
Carry
34. The effect created when a signal is sampled at less than twice the signal frequency. Aliasing creates unwanted frequencies that interfere with the signal frequency.
Compiler
Average value
Asynchronous counter
Aliasing
35. A series of bits describing a final design that is sent to the target device during programming
Bandwidth
Decoder
Thevenin Equivalent Circuit
Bitstream
36. The time from the application of a valid memory address to the appearance of valid output data
CLB (Configurable Logic Block)
Access time
Bus
Balanced Load
37. A VHDL feature that can be used to predefine the logic function for multiple use throughout a program or programs
DIMM
Bandwidth
Bidirectional shift Register
Component
38. A digital code in which each of the decimal digits - 0 through 9 - is represented by a group of four bits
Demultiplexer
Binary coded decimal
Battery
Bleeder Current
39. 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
ALU
Clock
Boolean multiplication
Decimal
40. A type of counter in which each stage is clocked from the output of the preceding stage.
ASCII
Asynchronous counter
Boolean addition
Don't Care...
41. An adverse condition that could occur if two or more devices try to communicate at the same time on a bus
Control Bus
Bus contention
Component
Bus arbitration
42. A type of PLD nonvolatile programmable link that can be left open or can be shorted once as directed by the program
Antifuse
Cache memory
Bipolar
Circuit Breaker
43. An instrument that can specify each of the other instruments on the bus as either a talker or a listener for the purpose of data transfer.
Controller
Comparator
BEDO DRAM
Boolean multiplication
44. The VHDL unit that describes the internal operation of a logic function; the internal functional arrangement of the elements that give a device its particular operating characteristics.
Architecture
Data Selector
Bus interface unit
Closed circuit
45. An application program in development software packages that controls the design flow process and translates source code into object code in a format that can be logically tested or downloaded to a target device
Admittance
Aliasing
Compiler
Charge- coupled device
46. Dual in - line memory module
DIMM
Data bus
Design flow
Astable
47. A filter that passes a range of frequencies lying between two critical freqencies and rejects frequencies above and below that range.
Assembler
Band- pass filter
Vx=(Vs * Rx) /RT
Design flow
48. The smallest particle of an element possessing the unique characteristics of that element.
Thevenin Equivalent Circuit
Alphanumeric
Controller
Atom
49. Having two values or states; describes a number system that has a base of two and utilizes 1 and 0 as its digits
Control Unit
DSP
Analog
Binary
50. Sum of all the voltage drops in series equals to the source voltage
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