DLD Exam 1 Questions and Answers
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What is the following image is called in this course? - ✔✔Lamp of Learning
Order the following computing elements from the earliest (old) to more
recent (new) by its invented date. - ✔✔1. Electron tube
2. Transistor
3. Integrated circuit
4. Large scale integrated circuit
"6004" is: - ✔✔The course at MIT that ELEN3431 is modeled after
Key elements of system engineering typically outlive the technologies they
interface to. - ✔✔True
Hierarchical design yields: - ✔✔Reusable building blocks and limited
complexity at each level
Assume that "27" is a Hexadecimal number. What is it in Binary? -
✔✔00011011
PFET's are used in pull-up circuits while NEFT's are used in negating
circuits. - ✔✔False
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, Current flows between the diffusion terminals in a MOSFET if the voltage
on the gate terminal is such that it creates a conducting "channel",
otherwise the mosfet is off and current does not flow between the diffusion
terminals. - ✔✔True
What kind of FET is described by figure X? - ✔✔NFET
What does the VTC acronym mean? - ✔✔Voltage Transfer Characteristic
What must accept marginal inputs and provide unquestionable outputs? -
✔✔Combinational device
What are sources of power supply noise? - ✔✔L(dl/dt) drop
IR drop
Can a combinational device contain directed cycles? - ✔✔False
Does a wire obey the static discipline? - ✔✔False
In general CMOS gate recipe, the output node is always a low-impedance
node in the steady state. - ✔✔True
If we design a system with lots of gain, what will that buy us? - ✔✔A big
noise margin.
TPD - ✔✔Time Propagation Delay (is the delay from valid inputs to valid
outputs)
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What is the following image is called in this course? - ✔✔Lamp of Learning
Order the following computing elements from the earliest (old) to more
recent (new) by its invented date. - ✔✔1. Electron tube
2. Transistor
3. Integrated circuit
4. Large scale integrated circuit
"6004" is: - ✔✔The course at MIT that ELEN3431 is modeled after
Key elements of system engineering typically outlive the technologies they
interface to. - ✔✔True
Hierarchical design yields: - ✔✔Reusable building blocks and limited
complexity at each level
Assume that "27" is a Hexadecimal number. What is it in Binary? -
✔✔00011011
PFET's are used in pull-up circuits while NEFT's are used in negating
circuits. - ✔✔False
1
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, Current flows between the diffusion terminals in a MOSFET if the voltage
on the gate terminal is such that it creates a conducting "channel",
otherwise the mosfet is off and current does not flow between the diffusion
terminals. - ✔✔True
What kind of FET is described by figure X? - ✔✔NFET
What does the VTC acronym mean? - ✔✔Voltage Transfer Characteristic
What must accept marginal inputs and provide unquestionable outputs? -
✔✔Combinational device
What are sources of power supply noise? - ✔✔L(dl/dt) drop
IR drop
Can a combinational device contain directed cycles? - ✔✔False
Does a wire obey the static discipline? - ✔✔False
In general CMOS gate recipe, the output node is always a low-impedance
node in the steady state. - ✔✔True
If we design a system with lots of gain, what will that buy us? - ✔✔A big
noise margin.
TPD - ✔✔Time Propagation Delay (is the delay from valid inputs to valid
outputs)
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