Computer Science and Information Technology
GATE CSE topic:digital-logic PYQs
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Question 28
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Consider the Boolean function
.Which one of the following minterm lists represents the circuit given above?

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Consider three registers R1, R2, and R3 that store numbers in IEEE-754 single precision floating point format. Assume that R1 and R2 contain the values (in hexadecimal notation) 0x42200000 and 0xC120000, respectively.
If
, what is the value stored in R3?Your answerChoose one option.
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A processor has 64 registers and uses 16-bit instruction format. It has two types of instructions: I-type and R-type. Each I-type instruction contains an opcode, a register name, and a 4-bit immediate value. Each R-type instruction contains an opcode and two register names. If there are 8 distinct I-type opcodes, then the maximum number of distinct R-type opcodes is ______.
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In 16-bit 2’s complement representation, the decimal number −28 is:
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Which one of the following is NOT a valid identity?
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Consider
, where X, Y and Z are all in sign-magnitude form. X and Y are each represented in
bits. To avoid overflow, the representation of Z would require a minimum of:Your answerChoose one option.
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The value of
is ________.Log in to check the answer
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Two numbers are chosen independently and uniformly at random from the set {1, 2, ..., 13}. The probability (rounded off to 3 decimal places) that their 4-bit (unsigned) binary representations have the same most significant bit is ________.
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Consider three 4-variable functions
,
, and
, which are expressed in sum-of-minterms as
,
,
. For the following circuit with one AND gate and one XOR gate, the output function f can be expressed as:
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What is the minimum number of 2-input NOR gates required to implement a 4-variable function expressed in sum-of-minterms form as f = Σ (0, 2, 5, 7, 8, 10, 13, 15)? Assume that all the inputs and their complements are available. Answer: ________.
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