Digital Logic Design Final Questions & Answers

Digital Logic Design Final Questions & Answers A combinational circuit is a zeroth-stage pipeline - CORRECT ANSWER- True A combinational device is a circuit element that has: (mark all correct): - CORRECT ANSWER- one or more digital outputs one or more digital inputs a functional specification A disadvantage of a programmable control system is that we cannot reconfigure it to compute new functions - CORRECT ANSWER- False A Don't Care is just a(n) [first] (and) [second] that the [third] does not depend on. - CORRECT ANSWER- [truth table] [input][output] A Finite State Machine cannot be thought of as programmable because it has a finaite number of states. - CORRECT ANSWER- False A finite state machine has... - CORRECT ANSWER- ...STATES, INPUTS, OUTPUTS, Transition Rules and Output Rules. A FSM can add or subtract two arbitrarily large binary numbers - CORRECT ANSWER- True A K-Stage Pipeline is a cyclic circuit having exactly K registers on every path from an input to an output. - CORRECT ANSWER- False A lenient combinational device... - CORRECT ANSWER- is where the output is guaranteed to be valid when any combination of inputs sufficient to determine the output value has been valid for at least Tpd A lenient Device - CORRECT ANSWER- Tolerates transitions and invalid levels on irrelevant inputs. A mux can be used to implement an arbitrary boolean function. - CORRECT ANSWER- True A mux can be used to make a latch, which is a... - CORRECT ANSWER- ...settable storage element. A read-only memory can be used to create a finite state machine along with a register. - CORRECT ANSWER- True A recursive procedure is one that calls itself - CORRECT ANSWER- True A single periodic clock signal shared among all clocked devices is what characterizes the onlyclock synchronous discipline - CORRECT ANSWER- False A system is a structure that is guaranteed to exhibit _________, assuming all of its components obey their specified behaviors - CORRECT ANSWER- a specified behavior