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GATE EC Digital Circuits questions

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Official PYQ1996Digital CircuitsSemiconductor MemoriesMCQ · 1 mark
A memory system of size 26 K26 \mathrm{~K} bytes is required to be designed using memory chips which have 1212 address lines and 44 data lines each. The number of such chips required to design the memory system is
Official PYQ1996Digital CircuitsData ConvertersMCQ · 1 mark
A 1010 - bit ADC\text{ADC} with a full scale output voltage of 10.24 V10.24 \mathrm{~V} is designed to have a±LSB/2\mathrm{a} \pm \mathrm{LSB} / 2 accuracy. If the ADC\mathrm{ADC} is calibrated at 25∘C25^{\circ} \mathrm{C} and the operating temperature ranges from 0∘C0^{\circ} \mathrm{C} to 50∘C50^{\circ} \mathrm{C}, then the maximum net temperature …
Official PYQ1996Digital CircuitsSemiconductor MemoriesMCQ · 1 mark
A dynamic RAM\text{RAM} cell which hold 5 V5 \mathrm{~V} has to be refreshed every 20 m20 \mathrm{~m} secs, so that the stored voltage does not fall by more than 0.5 V0.5 \mathrm{~V}. If the cell has a constant discharge current of 0.1  pA0.1 \; \mathrm{pA}, the storage capacitance of the cell is
Official PYQ1995Digital CircuitsData ConvertersMCQ · 1 mark
The signal to quantisation noise ratio in an nn-bit PCM\text{PCM} system
Official PYQ1995Digital CircuitsData ConvertersMCQ · 1 mark
If the number of bits per sample in a PCM\text{PCM} system is increased from improvement in signal-to quantisation noise ratio will be
Official PYQ1995Digital CircuitsComputer OrganizationMCQ · 1 mark
An 'Assembler' for a microprocessor is used for
Official PYQ1995Digital CircuitsComputer OrganizationMCQ · 1 mark
A ‘DMA’\text{‘DMA'} transfer implies
Official PYQ1995Digital CircuitsSequential CircuitsMCQ · 1 mark
An R-S\text{R-S} latch is a
Official PYQ1995Digital CircuitsSemiconductor MemoriesMCQ · 1 mark
The minimum number of MOS\text{MOS} transistors required to make a dynamic RAM\text{RAM} cell is
Official PYQ1995Digital CircuitsComputer OrganizationMCQ · 1 mark
When a CPU\text{CPU} is interrupted, it
Official PYQ1995Digital CircuitsSequential CircuitsMCQ · 1 mark
A switch-tail ring counter is made by using a single D\text{D} flip-flop. The resulting circuit is a
Official PYQ1995Digital CircuitsCombinatorial CircuitsMCQ · 1 mark
The minimum number of NAND\text{NAND} gates required to implement the Boolean function A+AB‾+AB‾C\mathrm{A}+\mathrm{A} \overline{\mathrm{B}}+\mathrm{A} \overline{\mathrm{B}} \mathrm{C}, is equal to
Official PYQ1995Digital CircuitsCombinatorial CircuitsMCQ · 1 mark
The output of the circuit in the figure is equal to
Official PYQ1994Digital CircuitsSemiconductor MemoriesMCQ · 1 mark
A dynamic RAM\text{RAM} consists of
Official PYQ1994Digital CircuitsCombinatorial CircuitsMCQ · 1 mark
A PLA\text{PLA} can be used
Official PYQ1994Digital CircuitsCombinatorial CircuitsMCQ · 1 mark
The output of a logic gate is ‘11’ when all its inputs are at logic ‘00’. Then gate is either
Official PYQ1994Digital CircuitsSequential CircuitsMCQ · 1 mark
Data can be changed from spatial code to temporal code and vice-versa by using
Official PYQ1993Digital CircuitsNumber RepresentationsMCQ · 1 mark
22's complement representation of a 1616 – bit number (one sign bit and 1515 magnitude bits) is FFFI\text{FFFI}. Its magnitude in decimal representation is
Official PYQ1993Digital CircuitsComputer OrganizationMCQ · 1 mark
In a microprocessor, the register which holds the address of the next instruction to be fetched is
Official PYQ1992Digital CircuitsData ConvertersMSQ · 1 mark
Dual-slope integration type Analog-to-digital converters provide