Fundamentals of Digital Systems and Arithmetic: Important Questions

Digital Principles and Computer Organization:

Chapter 1: Fundamentals of Digital Systems and Arithmetic

Important Questions

1. Define an analog system with one example.

2. Define a digital system with one example.

3. Explain the characteristics of analog systems in detail with examples.

4. Explain the characteristics of digital systems in detail with examples.

5. Compare analog systems and digital systems.

6. What is a binary signal?

7. What are the advantages of digital systems.

8. Explain various number systems.

9. Name the number system used in computers.

10. What are 1's complement and 2's complement numbers?

11. State advantages of 2's complement number representation.

12. What are the different ways to represent a negative number ?

13. State the different ways for representing the signed binary numbers.

14. Illustrate the rules for binary addition and subtraction using 2's complement arithmetic. Give examples.

15. State the rules for binary multiplication.

16. State the rules for binary division.

17. What is meant by weighted and non–weighted coding?

18. Define reflective and sequential codes.

19. What do you mean by alphanumeric codes?

20. What are error detecting and correcting codes ?

21. What is the advantage of gray codes over the binary number sequence?

22. Show that the excess–3 code is self–complementing.

23. Encode the ten decimal digits in the 2 out of 5 code.

24. Explain the gray code to binary converter with the necessary diagram.

25. Write the application of gray code.