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Digital Fundamentals
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. A notational system for logic symbols that specifies input and output relationships thus fully defining a given function
Ampere- hour(Ah) rating
Base address
Dependency notation
Commutative Law
2. An expression of variables and operators used to express the operation of a logic circuit
Augend
Digital linear tape
Boolean expression
Asynchronous counter
3. In a pulse waveform - the height or maximum value of the pulse as measured from its low level.
CPLD
Amplitude
Carry
Concurrency
4. Digital Signal Processor; a special type of microprocessor that processes data in real time
Average value
DSP
AND
Current sinking
5. A type of magnetic tape format
Digital linear tape
DCE
Admittance
Adder
6. An arrangement of electrical and/or electronic components interconnected in such a way as to perform a specified function
Access time
Circuit Breaker
Clear
Circuit
7. A document that specifies parameter values and operating conditions for an integrated circuits or other device
Data Sheet
Amplitude
Data Selector
Bistable
8. A class of integrated logic circuits that is implemented with a type of field effect transistor
Boundary scan
CMOS Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor
Data Sheet
Bandwidth
9. American Standard Code for Information Interchange; the most widely used alphanumeric code.
Central processing unit
Bit time
Debug
ASCII
10. The smallest particle of an element possessing the unique characteristics of that element.
Cache memory
Atom
ANSI
Decimal
11. Having two stable states. Flip- flops and latches are bistable multivibrators.
Complement
Bistable
Bit
Addend
12. A digital counter having ten states
Concurrency
BIOS
ASCII
Decade Counter
13. An electrical device consisting of two conductive plates separated by an insulating material and possessing the property of capacitance.
Boolean algebra
CMOS
Acceptor
Capacitor
14. The normal level of a pulse waveform; the voltage level in the absence of a pulse.
Baseline
Capacity
Balanced Load
Base
15. A resettable protective device used for interrupting execessive current in an electric circuit
Decade
DIMM
Decoder
Circuit Breaker
16. A logic gate that produces a High output only when all of the inputs are HIGH
Digital linear tape
Boolean expression
Collector
AND gate
17. The range of frequencies for which the current (or output voltage) is equal to or greater than 70.7% of its value at the resonant frequency that is considered to be passed by a filter.
DAT
Bandwidth
Decade Counter
Bus arbitration
18. The ability of a capacitor to store electrical charge.
Boolean multiplication
DSP
Don't Care...
Capacitance
19. An energy source that uses a chemical reaction to convert chemical energy into electrical energy.
Assembly language
Battery
Capacity
CPLD
20. A measure of the ability of a reactive circuit to permit current; the reciprocal of impedance. the unit is the siemens
Analog- to- digital converter(ADC)
Admittance
Design flow
Asynchronous counter
21. A circuit with a complete current path
Closed circuit
Astable
Bistable
Antifuse
22. A relatively small - high- speed memory that stores the most recently used instructions or data from the larger but slower main memory
Binary
Cache memory
Decrement
Address Bus
23. The maximum value of a voltage or current
Charge- coupled device
Binary coded decimal
Base
Amplitude
24. A digital circuit device that converts coded information into another (familiar) or noncoded form
Address Bus
Decoder
Capacity
AND
25. Digital audio tape; a type of magnetic tape format
DAT
Circular Mil (CM)
Amplitude
Boolean addition
26. A combined coder and decoder
Binary
Autotransformer
Code
Adjacency
27. A filter that rejects a range of frequencies lying between two critical frequencies and passes frequencies above and below that range.
Capacity
Band- stop filter
Circuit
bed- of- nails
28. A program that converts English- like mnemonics into machine code
Assembler
Ampere- hour(Ah) rating
Balanced Load
Bit
29. Data Communications equipment
Bleeder Current
Admittance
Balanced Load
DCE
30. Altera HDL; a nonstandard HDL
AHDL
Diode
Component
DMA
31. Describes a number system with a base of ten
Dependency notation
Design flow
Decimal
Debug
32. A two terminal circuit containing voltage sources - current sources - and resistors can be modeled as a voltage source in series with a resistor
Bandwidth
Thevenin Equivalent Circuit
ALU
Distributive Law
33. Voltage Divider Rule in determining TEC Thevenin Equivalence Circuit
AND
Vx=(Vs * Rx) /RT
Branch
BJT
34. A combination of logic gates interconnected to produce a specified Boolean function with no storage or memory capability; sometimes called combinatorial logic
Carry propagation
Atom
DIMM
Combinational logic
35. 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
Data Sheet
Buffer
Controller
Clear
36. 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.
Commutative Law
Binary coded decimal
Dual in - line package
Architecture
37. A logic circuit used to add two binary numbers
Circuit Breaker
Bias
Comparator
Adder
38. A filter that passes a range of frequencies lying between two critical freqencies and rejects frequencies above and below that range.
Bus contention
Collector
Band- pass filter
Adjacency
39. Dual in - line memory module
DIMM
Balanced Load
Dual in - line package
Capacitance
40. A unit of logic in an FPGA that is made up of multiple smaller logic modules and a local programmable interconnect that is used to connect logic modules within the CLB
Complement
CLB (Configurable Logic Block)
Distributive Law
Counter
41. Stands for Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor and is implemented with a type of field transistor
CMOS
Digital linear tape
Collector
Component
42. A series of bits describing a final design that is sent to the target device during programming
Bitstream
Commutative Law
ASCII
Diode
43. A software compiler language for SPLD programming; a type of hardware description language (HDL)
Binary
Bandwidth
BJT
ABEL(Advance Boolean Expression Language)
44. In a division operation the quantity that is being divided
Base address
Current sinking
Average value
Dividend
45. A type of PLD nonvolatile programmable link that can be left open or can be shorted once as directed by the program
Antifuse
DCE
Band- stop filter
Closed circuit
46. The rotational rate of a phasor which is related to the frequency of the sine wave that the phasor represents
Collector
Angular Velocity
Charge- coupled device
Atom
47. An array of AND gates consisting of a matrix of programmable interconnection
AND array
Branch
Boolean multiplication
Addend
48. A method of analog- to- digital conversion using a 1- bit quantization process
Counter
Boolean algebra
Delta Modulation
Clear
49. Having two opposites charge carriers within the transistor structure
Average value
Bipolar
Circuit
Concurrency
50. A semiconductor device that conducts current in only one direction
Delta Modulation
DAT
Diode
Bode Plot