Electrical Engineering 301 UPDATED
ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS
Accelerometer - Correct answers✔✔Sensor that measures forces that cause motion
Acknowledge (ACK) - Correct answers✔✔Indication that a communication has succeeded
Arithmetic Logic Unit (ALU) - Correct answers✔✔Digital logic to compute things like add,
subtract, and, or, xor in a CPU.
Anti-aliasing filter - Correct answers✔✔Removes noise and high frequencies that cannot be
reconstructed after sampling from a signal
Assembly Language - Correct answers✔✔The low level instructions executed by a CPU.
ADC - Correct answers✔✔Converts an analog signal to digital numbers
Asserted high (Active high) - Correct answers✔✔Digital signal that is "true" when its voltage is
high
Asserted low (Active low) - Correct answers✔✔Digital signal that is "true" when its voltage is
low
Asynchronous - Correct answers✔✔Not dependent on a clock signal
, Auto pick and place
machine - Correct answers✔✔Physically places components on a PCB after solder
paste has been put on all of the pads
Baud Rate - Correct answers✔✔Bits per second of a serial communication
Brown Out - Correct answers✔✔Event where the supply voltage dips below a given
threshold voltage.
Bus - Correct answers✔✔Collection of wires to carry a binary number from one
hardware unit to another.
Chip - Correct answers✔✔Integrated circuit
Clock - Correct answers✔✔Digital signal that oscillates at fixed frequency
Configuration Register - Correct answers✔✔Place to write for setting device options
Continuous signal - Correct answers✔✔Measurement whose value changes as a function of
time in a time continuum
Control Register - Correct answers✔✔Place to write signals that control the general behavior
of a device
ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS
Accelerometer - Correct answers✔✔Sensor that measures forces that cause motion
Acknowledge (ACK) - Correct answers✔✔Indication that a communication has succeeded
Arithmetic Logic Unit (ALU) - Correct answers✔✔Digital logic to compute things like add,
subtract, and, or, xor in a CPU.
Anti-aliasing filter - Correct answers✔✔Removes noise and high frequencies that cannot be
reconstructed after sampling from a signal
Assembly Language - Correct answers✔✔The low level instructions executed by a CPU.
ADC - Correct answers✔✔Converts an analog signal to digital numbers
Asserted high (Active high) - Correct answers✔✔Digital signal that is "true" when its voltage is
high
Asserted low (Active low) - Correct answers✔✔Digital signal that is "true" when its voltage is
low
Asynchronous - Correct answers✔✔Not dependent on a clock signal
, Auto pick and place
machine - Correct answers✔✔Physically places components on a PCB after solder
paste has been put on all of the pads
Baud Rate - Correct answers✔✔Bits per second of a serial communication
Brown Out - Correct answers✔✔Event where the supply voltage dips below a given
threshold voltage.
Bus - Correct answers✔✔Collection of wires to carry a binary number from one
hardware unit to another.
Chip - Correct answers✔✔Integrated circuit
Clock - Correct answers✔✔Digital signal that oscillates at fixed frequency
Configuration Register - Correct answers✔✔Place to write for setting device options
Continuous signal - Correct answers✔✔Measurement whose value changes as a function of
time in a time continuum
Control Register - Correct answers✔✔Place to write signals that control the general behavior
of a device
