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It is important to learn the techniques of converting one number system to another while studying digital electronics or digital computers. This is because, in our day-to-day life we use decimal number systems, while computers use either binary or hexadecimal number systems. In the last lecture articles, we learned about the representation of different number…
The traditional number systems that we learned in school and use every day (decimal, binary, hexadecimal, octal etc.) are positional number systems. In such a system, a number is represented by a string of digits where each digit position has an associated weight. The value of a number is a weighted sum of the digits….
The number of independent digits used in the number system is known as Radix or Base of the number system. Few Relevant Questions and Answers Question: How many digits are there in the base/radix 9 number system?Answer: There are 9 digits in the base/radix 9 number system.Question: What is the largest digit in the base/radix…
In this article, we will discuss the representation of the following number systems Radix or Base of a Number System The number of independent digits used in the number system is known as Radix or Base of the number system. Positional or Weighted Number System The traditional number systems that we learned in school and…
In our day-to-day life, we generally use decimal number system for expressing any quantity. For example, when I go to an electronics shop for purchasing a mobile phone – I say that show me one good mobile phone in the range of Rs. 10,000/-. Here, ‘one’ and ‘10,000’ is the use of decimal number system….
The general-purpose digital computer is the best-known example of a digital system. Digital computers have been around since the 1940s, and have been in widespread commercial use since the 1960s. The most striking property of a digital computer is its generality. It can follow a sequence of instructions, called a program, that operates on given…
The real-world signals are analog. However, processing, communicating, and storing data in digital form is advantageous over analog form. Therefore, the analog signal is converted to digital form at the transmitter end and again converted back to analog form at the receiver end. The following are multiple advantages of digital over analog. Previous …
Electronic circuits can broadly be divided into two broad categories: Some advantages of digital over analog are as below: Today, digital technology is applied in a wide range of applications. The most common digital end products are computers, television, communication systems, consumer electronics, etc. Sampling and Quantization are the techniques that are used to convert…
ASCII codes are alphanumeric codes that represent numbers, alphabets, symbols and special characters in computers. ASCII stands for American Standard Code for Information Interchange. Whenever we press a key from the keyboard, the corresponding ASCII code goes into the computer. ASCII has 128 characters that can be represented using 7 bits (00 to 7F in…
Modern day Syetem-on-Chips are so complex that pre-silicon verification is no more the sufficient step to capture all the design bugs. Even with sophisticated verification process, achieving 100% coverage is difficult. Due to this, few bugs escape from the pre-silicon verification till the actual product on silicon. So, now-a-days industries perform post-silicon validation (commonly known…