Review the following documents carefully:

In general, you should know the following concepts for this course:

  1. How to convert Decimal to HEX, HEX to Decimal, HEX to Binary, Binary to HEX, Binary to Decimal, Decimal to binary.
  2. How to convert different engineering notations: m K, G, T, etc.
  3. How to use scientific notations: 10^2, 2^23, 16^32+10^32
  4. How to multiply and add with engineering notations: 2.0KHz + 2000 mHz
  5. How to multiply and add with scientific notations: 10^32+16^10
  6. Powers of 10 and their multipliers
  7. Power s of 2: 2^2, 2^43, 2^12, etc.
  8. Make sure you review TRUTH TABLE FOR GATES AND FLIP-FLOPS (Clocked D-FF in particular - Read this carefully)
  9. Understand 1's complement and 2's complement.
  10. What are ASCII codes? What are they used for?

Specifically, you should be able to answer the followign questions - note that the QUIZ will be based on these questions:

  1. How to add binary numbers (011 + 101 =?)
  2. Engineering notations - for example how many Kbytes are in a Mbyte? 
  3. How many bits are used for a standard ASCII code? 
  4. What is the answer: 2^10+1000?
  5. What is the answer: 1MHz *1000KH? Express the answer in KHz
  6. What is the answer: 1.2MHz *100KH? Express the answer in MHz
  7. If 2^x = 1024, what is x?
  8. If both input pins of an NOR gate are LOW, what will be the output?
  9. What is 2^8?
  10. What is 2^8-2^6? Express the answer in 2^x
  11. which is lager: 2^11 or 2*2^10?
  12. which is larger: 0x34AB or 2^11?
  13. Is 0x23ABC an EVEN number or an ODD number?
  14. Express the 1’s complement of X=0xFF in HEX, assuming X is one byte wide ?
  15. What is the difference between a byte and a nibble? What is the largest number that can be represented by a nibble?- read this.
  16. Calculate X in decimal, assuming X = 0x1320+122d+010001b.
  17. What is the address size for one Peta - read this
  18. Convert to binary and decimal: 0x2AC
  19. Convert to binary: 0x83D.E
  20. Convert to decimal: 0x6A.C
  21. Which is the larger value: 0x3FFF OR 16,384
  22. Write the equivalent hex value of the following binary value: 11100001111000110110111
  23. Express 8,600,000 Hz in terms of Giga Hz (GHz).
  24. Which is larger: Hex value (FFFF)  or  Decimal value (216)?
  25. Between the following two numbers which one is divisible by 2: Hex value (FA000000BCF) or Decimal value (230)?
  26. How many BYTES are required to express the following HEX value: 0x2046?
  27. How many address bits are required to address all memory locations in a one-Gig byte of memory?
  28. Express the sum in binary: FF+FF+1=?
  29. Draw a clocked D Flip-Flop and show its truth table. You must name all the pins.
  30. Show the digital symbol for a two input XNOR logic gate. What is the output if both inputs are TRUE?
  31. What is the binary representation of the following BCH code: F0D.
  32. What is 2’s complement of 0xFFFF?
  33. Which is the smaller value: 0x7FF OR 10111111111
  34. How many bits are required to represent the following decimal number: 18,39
  35. What is 1's complement of 0xFF?
  36. What is 2's complement of 0x2C? What is the equivalent 2's complement in Decimal?
  37. What is the binary approximation of ONE giga?
  38. What is the output of the following circuit?