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Digital Fundamentals
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1. The ratio of pulse width to period expressed as a percentage
Duty cycle
ASCII
Autotransformer
Apparent power
2. One of the three regions in a bipolar junction transistor
Bus contention
Base
Control Bus
Addend
3. Sum of all currents entering a node is equal to the sum of all currents leaving the same node
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4. 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.
Baseline
Capacitance
Code
Architecture
5. In a pulse waveform - the height or maximum value of the pulse as measured from its low level.
Data Selector
CPLD
ALU
Amplitude
6. To decrease the binary state of a counter by one
Comparator
Decrement
Circuit Breaker
Control Unit
7. The application of a dc voltage to an electronic device to produce a desired mode of operation
Band- stop filter
AND gate
Bias
Average value
8. An electrical instrument used to measure current
Bitstream
Ammeter
CMOS
Bipolar
9. In Boolean algebra - the OR operation
CMOS
Design flow
Complement
Boolean addition
10. Stands for Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor and is implemented with a type of field transistor
Concurrency
CMOS
DMA
Diode
11. Data Communications equipment
Base address
Don't Care...
DCE
Circuit
12. 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
Carry
Data bus
Amplitude
Decode
13. A circuit (digital service) that switches digital data from one input line to several output lines in a specified time sequence
Bias
Demultiplexer
Aliasing
Boolean addition
14. A electrical property of matter that exist because of an excess or a deficiency of electrons. Can be either positive or negative
Clock
Charge
Boolean algebra
ASCII
15. A circuit with a complete current path
Branch Current
Admittance
Closed circuit
Norton's Theorem
16. A type of IC package whose leads must pass through holes to the other side of a PC board
Combinational logic
Admittance
Dual in - line package
Boolean expression
17. A nominally continuous electrical signal that varies in amplitude or frequency in response to changes in sound - light - heat - position - or pressure.
Bitstream
Decrement
Decade Counter
Analog
18. The actual current in a branch
Current sinking
Decrement
Boolean algebra
Branch Current
19. A method for internally testing a PLD based on the JTAG standard (IEEE std.)
Boundary scan
Bandwidth
Clear
Charge
20. A method of analog- to- digital conversion using a 1- bit quantization process
Delta Modulation
Circular Mil (CM)
Central processing unit
Attenuation
21. 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
BJT
Debug
AND array
Control Unit
22. The action of a circuit in which it accepts current into its output from a load
Aliasing
Current sinking
Diode
Data bus
23. 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
Branch Current
Comparator
Complement
Augend
24. A measure of the ability of a reactive circuit to permit current; the reciprocal of impedance. the unit is the siemens
Cache memory
Dependency notation
Atom
Admittance
25. 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
Architecture
Norton's Theorem
Vx=(Vs * Rx) /RT
26. A software compiler language for SPLD programming; a type of hardware description language (HDL)
ABEL(Advance Boolean Expression Language)
Aliasing
D Flip-Flop
Dynamic Memory
27. Consisting of numerals - letters - and other characters
Controller
Bus interface unit
Capacitor
Alphanumeric
28. The maximum value of a voltage or current
Amplitude
Code
ABEL(Advance Boolean Expression Language)
Circuit
29. A series of bits describing a final design that is sent to the target device during programming
Analog- to- digital (A/D) conversion
Bitstream
Decoder
Dual in - line package
30. A type of counter in which each stage is clocked from the output of the preceding stage.
Attenuation
Access time
Asynchronous counter
Astable
31. A circuit that prevents loading of an input or output
Band- stop filter
Carry generation
Buffer
Augend
32. Information in numeric - alphabetic - or other form.
Acceptor
Boundary scan
Central processing unit
Data
33. 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.
DCE
ANSI
Decimal
Controller
34. One of the three regions in a bipolar Junction transistor(North junction of NpN)
Analog- to- digital (A/D) conversion
Collector
Apparent power
DSP
35. The phasor combination of resistive power (true power) and reactive power. The unit is the volt- amperes (VA).
Apparent power
Controller
Astable
Band- pass filter
36. A binary digit - which can be either 1 or 0
Bus contention
Attenuation
Bit
Bus interface unit
37. Voltage Divider Rule in determining TEC Thevenin Equivalence Circuit
Boolean expression
Vx=(Vs * Rx) /RT
Bus arbitration
AND
38. Basic input/output system; a set of programs in ROM that interfaces the I/) devices in a computer system
BIOS
Addend
DSP
Base
39. The interval of time occupied by a single bit in a sequence of bits; the period of the clock
Bit time
Cache memory
Compiler
Bitstream
40. 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
bed- of- nails
Boundary scan
AHDL
Capacity
41. Dynamic random- access memory; a type of semiconductor memory that uses capacitors as the storage elements and is a volatile - read/write memory
Dynamic Memory
Capacitance Reactance
BJT
DRAM
42. A type of semiconductor memory having capacitive storage cells that lose stored data over a period of time and therefore must be refreshed.
Branch Current
Base
Don't Care...
Dynamic Memory
43. Burst extended data output dynamic random- access memory
Bus
BEDO DRAM
Clock
Bidirectional shift Register
44. Characterized by ten states or values
Kirchoff's Voltage Law
Data Sheet
Decade
Bias
45. 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
ABEL(Advance Boolean Expression Language)
Decade
CLB (Configurable Logic Block)
Circuit Breaker
46. In a division operation the quantity that is being divided
Component
Current sinking
Buffer
Dividend
47. A program that translates an assembly language program for one type of microprocessor to an assembly language for another type of microprocessor
Binary
Cross - assembler
Ampere
Vx=(Vs * Rx) /RT
48. A code within DOS that allows various operations on files and includes a primitive assembler; to eliminate a problem in hardware or software.
Addend
Debug
Distributive Law
Demultiplexer
49. A combination of logic gates interconnected to produce a specified Boolean function with no storage or memory capability; sometimes called combinatorial logic
Clock
Combinational logic
Current sinking
DMA
50. The normal level of a pulse waveform; the voltage level in the absence of a pulse.
Bandwidth
Admittance
Baseline
Bus contention