Exam 4: The Building Blocks: Binary Numbers, Boolean Logic, and Gates

MP3 and JPEG are examples of compression schemes that use ____, which permits significantly greater compression ratios, while not guaranteeing that all information is fully and completely recreated.

What are the four steps of the sum-of-products algorithm?

A decoder has only 1 output line.

A multiplexor has 2^N output lines.

Pitch is the highness or lowness of a sound.

The way information is represented by humans and entered at the keyboard is known as the ____ of information.

The emitter and collector are the two input lines of a transistor.

Any whole number that can be represented in base 10 can also be represented in base 2, although it may take ____ digits.

ASCII mapping is the process of assigning a printable letter in our alphabet a unique number.

In an analog representation, objects can take on any value.

The total number of ____ per second is called hertz.

UNICODE encodes a total of ____ different characters.

In a ____, the values of the outputs depend only on the current values of the inputs.

ASCII uses ____ bits to represent each character.

An integrated circuit, also known as a chip, is mounted on a circuit board.

There are ____ stable states in a bistable environment.

Boolean logic fits well with computer design because it deals with the manipulation of two logical values.

Information is stored in the memory of a computer using the decimal numbering system.

The sum-of-products algorithm always produces an optimal circuit.

To construct an OR gate, two transistors are connected in parallel.