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Digital Fundamentals
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1. 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.
Branch Current
AWG
Array
Ampere
2. The normal level of a pulse waveform; the voltage level in the absence of a pulse.
Charge
Closed circuit
Compiler
Baseline
3. Information in numeric - alphabetic - or other form.
Data
Cross - assembler
Battery
Clock
4. An arrangement of electrical and/or electronic components interconnected in such a way as to perform a specified function
ANSI
Duty cycle
Circuit
DRAM
5. Stands for Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor and is implemented with a type of field transistor
Address
Ampere- hour(Ah) rating
Architecture
CMOS
6. The current left after the total load current is subtracted from the total current into the circuit
Distributive Law
Bleeder Current
Charge- coupled device
Digital linear tape
7. A series of bits describing a final design that is sent to the target device during programming
Band- stop filter
Norton's Theorem
Bitstream
Circuit Breaker
8. A unit of the cross - sectional area of a wire.
Dual in - line package
Circular Mil (CM)
Atom
DRAM
9. A connection at the midpoint of a winding in a transformer
Component
Center Tap
Bit time
Clear
10. American National Standards Institute
ANSI
Branch
Capacitor
DMA
11. 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.
Data bus
Bandwidth
Norton's Theorem
Circuit
12. A two terminal circuit containing voltage sources - current sources - and resistors can be modeled as a voltage source in series with a resistor
Comparator
Thevenin Equivalent Circuit
Adjacency
Closed circuit
13. Sum of all currents entering a node is equal to the sum of all currents leaving the same node
14. The ratio of pulse width to period expressed as a percentage
Charge- coupled device
Duty cycle
Carry generation
Design flow
15. A binary digit - which can be either 1 or 0
Decade Counter
Ampere
Bit
Boolean addition
16. Dynamic random- access memory; a type of semiconductor memory that uses capacitors as the storage elements and is a volatile - read/write memory
DRAM
DAT
Aliasing
DIMM
17. The unit of electrical current
Ampere
Central processing unit
Circular Mil (CM)
Ammeter
18. A notational system for logic symbols that specifies input and output relationships thus fully defining a given function
Branch
Dependency notation
Thevenin Equivalent Circuit
Aliasing
19. A resettable protective device used for interrupting execessive current in an electric circuit
Amplitude
Circuit Breaker
Boolean expression
Bus
20. American Standard Code for Information Interchange; the most widely used alphanumeric code.
Buffer
Vx=(Vs * Rx) /RT
ASCII
D Flip-Flop
21. A basic logic operation in which a true(high) output occurs only when all the input conditions are true (high)
Bidirectional shift Register
AND
Base address
Attenuation
22. 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
TTL
Data bus
DRAM
Analog
23. Data Communications equipment
Bus contention
DCE
Atom
Bandwidth
24. A digital circuit capable of counting electronic events - such as pulses - by progressing through a sequence of binary states.
Ampere
Demultiplexer
Counter
Bit
25. Voltage Divider Rule in determining TEC Thevenin Equivalence Circuit
Bleeder Current
Byte
Vx=(Vs * Rx) /RT
Comparator
26. A type of counter in which each stage is clocked from the output of the preceding stage.
Balanced Bridge
Asynchronous counter
Atom
Vx=(Vs * Rx) /RT
27. A set of interconnections that interface one or more devices based on a standardized specification
Admittance
Circuit
Balanced Bridge
Bus
28. The smallest particle of an element possessing the unique characteristics of that element.
Design flow
Bit time
Carry
Atom
29. The main part of a computer responsible for control and processing of data; the core of a DSP that processes the program instructions
Central processing unit
Acceptor
bed- of- nails
Comparator
30. The digit generated when the sum of two binary digits exceeds 1
Angular Velocity
Carry
Don't Care...
Carry propagation
31. An electrical instrument used to measure current
Boolean multiplication
Acceptor
Ammeter
Battery
32. A type of PLD nonvolatile programmable link that can be left open or can be shorted once as directed by the program
Choke
Antifuse
Decode
AND
33. Consisting of numerals - letters - and other characters
Alphanumeric
Complement
Baseline
Attenuation
34. Digital audio tape; a type of magnetic tape format
Apparent power
Balanced Bridge
DAT
DIMM
35. Burst extended data output dynamic random- access memory
Adjacency
BEDO DRAM
Apparent power
Capacitor
36. One of the three regions in a bipolar junction transistor
Charge
Bus
Base
Assembly language
37. The beginning address of a segment of memory
Associative law
Array
Base address
Vx=(Vs * Rx) /RT
38. The process or sequence of operations carried out to program a target device
Current sinking
Design flow
Buffer
Bit time
39. One of the three regions in a bipolar Junction transistor(North junction of NpN)
Cascade
Ammeter
Collector
Compiler
40. The maximum value of a voltage or current
TTL
Amplitude
Bandwidth
Choke
41. A digital circuit device that converts coded information into another (familiar) or noncoded form
Decode
Decoder
Aliasing
Kirchoff's Voltage Law
42. A semiconductor device that conducts current in only one direction
Vx=(Vs * Rx) /RT
Alphanumeric
Assembly language
Diode
43. Sum of all the voltage drops in series equals to the source voltage
44. The graph of a filter's frequency response showing the change in the output voltage to input voltage ratio expressed in dB as a function of frequency for a constant input voltage
Charge- coupled device
Capacitor
CLB (Configurable Logic Block)
Bode Plot
45. A circuit (digital service) that switches digital data from one input line to several output lines in a specified time sequence
Demultiplexer
bed- of- nails
Capacitance
Balanced Bridge
46. A device used to convert an analog signal to a sequence of digital codes
AND array
Distributive Law
Bit time
Analog- to- digital converter(ADC)
47. In Boolean algebra - the OR operation
AWG
DMA
Dependency notation
Boolean addition
48. 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.
Diode
Amplitude
Bistable
Attenuation
49. A type of magnetic tape format
Digital linear tape
Bleeder Current
Boolean addition
Counter
50. Characterized by ten states or values
Decade
CPLD
Capacitance Reactance
Atomic number