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We want to design a synchronous counter that counts the sequence $0-1-0-2-0-3$ and then repeats. The minimum number of $\text{J-K}$ flip-flops required to implement this ...
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A half adder is implemented with XOR and AND gates. A full adder is implemented with two half adders and one OR gate. The propagation delay of an XOR gate is twice that o...
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Consider the operations$\textit{f (X, Y, Z) = X'YZ + XY' + Y'Z'}$ and $\textit{g (X, Y, Z) = X'YZ + X'YZ' + XY}$Which one of the following is correct?Both $\left\{\textit...
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Consider numbers represented in 4-bit Gray code. Let $ h_{3}h_{2}h_{1}h_{0}$ be the Gray code representation of a number $n$ and let $ g_{3}g_{2}g_{1}g_{0}$ be the Gray...
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The minimum number of $\text{JK}$ flip-flops required to construct a synchronous counter with the count sequence $(0, 0, 1, 1, 2, 2, 3, 3, 0, 0, \ldots)$ is _______.
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State True or False with one line explanationA FSM (Finite State Machine) can be designed to add two integers of any arbitrary length (arbitrary number of digits).
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#11
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Consider an eight-bit ripple-carry adder for computing the sum of $A$ and $B$, where $A$ and $B$ are integers represented in $2$'s complement form. If the decimal value o...
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