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THE MOMBASA POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY COLLEGE

Faculty of Engineering and Technology

DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL & ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING

CEPE 2

UNIT CODE: ____________


DIGITAL ELECTRONICS I

SEMESTER EXAMINATION
SERIES: FEBRUARY 2011 SERIES
TIME: 2 HOURS

Instructions to Candidates:
Answer Question ONE (COMPULSORY) and any other TWO Questions.

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(COMPULSORY)
Question ONE

a) i) Define the following terms:


I) radix
II) weight
ii) Perform the following conversions:
I) 0.562510 to binary
II) 101101.01102 to decimal
III) 1111101000102 to hexadecimal
IV) 24310 to octal
V) 4F16 to binary then to octal. (13marks)

b) Perform the following arithmetic operations


i) DB + F5
ii) 158 + 448
iii) 11011 ÷ 11
iv) 110 x 1001 (8 marks)

c) Perform the following operations


i) 100000- 101111 using 1s complement
ii) 1610 – 1410 using 2s complement
iii) -6 + 5 using 1s complement (9 marks)

Question TWO

a) i) Distinguish between weighted and unweighted code and give an example of each.
ii) State any TWO differences between gray and straight binary.
iii) State any TWO advantages and any ONE disadvantage of binary coded decimal.
(7 marks)

b) i) Use the ASCII table attached to decode the following sequence


0110111 1000011 1000001 1010100 1010011 0111111
ii) Encode the following using ASCII table
I) @ II) &

c) Perform the following code arithmetic


i) 88 + 52 in BCD
ii) 8 – 2 in excess 3 BCD (6 marks)

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Question THREE

a) i) State Demorgan’s theorem


ii) Prove by truth table that 1+A=1 (4 marks)

b) i) Simplify the following expressions using Boolean Algebra


I) F  A C  ABC  A BC  A B C
II) F  ( A  B)( A  B  C )
ii) Implement the logic circuit to produce the following output
F  B C  A B  AC
iii) Determine the function F in fig 1 (11marks)

Fig 1

c) i) Implement the following logic function using NOR gates only


F  ( A  B) C
ii) Prove that A  B  C  ( A  B) C (5 marks)

Question FOUR

a) i) From table 1, determine the


I) min-term expression
II) max-term expression

Table 1 table 2
CD CD CD CD
A B C X AB 0 0 0 0
0 1 0 0 1 0 1 1
AB
1 0 0 1 1 0 0 1
1 0 1 0 AB 0 0 0 0
1 1 1 0 AB

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ii) From the K-map of table 2, determine:
I) The complete Boolean expression
II) The minimized expression (10marks)

b) Minimize the following Boolean expressions using Karnaugh maps


i) F A C  ABC  A BC  A B C  A B C
ii) F  A C  A C  AC (10marks)

Question FIVE

a) Three sensors are used to monitor pressure (P), Temperature (T) and voltage (V) of an
industrial plant. An alarm should sound for the following conditions:
 If both temperature and voltage sensors are OFF
 If temperature sensors is ON and voltage sensor is OFF
 If pressure sensor is OFF and voltage sensor is ON.
Take sensor ON = logic 1 and OFF = logic 0
i) Develop a truth table for the problem
ii) Derive the Boolean expression for the sum of products. (6 marks)

b) i) Find the canonical form of


F  ABC
ii) Write the expression in the form  (a, b, c) (6 marks)

c) Design a 3 bit odd parity generator. (8 marks)

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