Egr 2400 Exam 1 With Questions And Answers

FPLA {Ans: Field Programmable logic array}what is a transistor? {Ans: basically a miniaturized switch ex: a TTL chip}2's complement encoding scheme if negative {Ans: 1) add leading zero 2) invert all bits of the positive 2's complement 3) add 1 **the extra leading one just means the number is negative}what does an 8-bit equality detector consist of? {Ans: 8 XNOR gates and an AND gate}what are the different components of the CLBs? {Ans: -they are surrounded by IOBs (input/output blocks) -4 slices (in the Spartan-3) -each slice has 2 LUTs and 2 FFs}how do you loop for karnaugh maps? {Ans: "single neighbor" pairs octets quads isolated ones}