ECE 301 Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

What processor did the first IBM PC use? - ANSWER-8088 How much did the PDP-1 cost? - ANSWER-$125,000 Moore's Law states that... - ANSWER-The number of transistors on an affordable CPU will double every two years. Which of the following is not part of the processor's datapath: A) Control unit B) General purpose registers C) Arithmetic and Logic Unit (ALU) D) Bus interface logic E) Multiplexers - ANSWER-A) Control Unit The processor's control unit... - ANSWER-Decodes the assem...

Digital - ANSWER-Discontinuous Time is only defined at certain times Magnitude can only take on values from a finite set Purpose of binary representation is.... - ANSWER-to put numbers in a form which can be manipulated by digital logic What are the four formalism(representations of logic functions) - ANSWER-1. Truth tables 2. Schematic symbols 3. Boolean (switching) algebra 4. Hardware description language huntingtons postulates - ANSWER-1. Closure x + y are elements of B x * ...