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The height of a periodic wave; a measure of loudness |
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Objects can take on any continuous value |
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An attempt to represent an integer that exceeds the maximum allowable value |
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American Standard Code for Information Interchange; ASCII is an international standard for representing textual information in the majority of computers |
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A base-2 positional numbering system |
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| 5) binary numbering system |
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The number of bits used to encode a sample during digitization |
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An expression that can evaluate only to true or false |
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A branch of mathematics that operates on the values true and false |
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A collection of logic gates (1) that transforms a set of binary inputs into a set of binary outputs and (2) where the values of the outputs depend only on the current values of the inputs |
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An algorithm that allows us to go from a specification of what we wish to accomplish to a circuit which carries out those specifications |
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| 12) circuit construction algorithm |
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The process of reducing the number of gates needed to implement a circuit |
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Measures how much a compression scheme has reduced the storage requirements of the data |
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A circuit used to make decisions and control the flow of execution |
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The process of reducing the number of bits required to represent a sound or image |
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A control circuit that has N input lines numbered 0, 1, 2, . . . , N - 1 and 2N output lines numbered 0, 1, 2, 3, . . . , 2N - 1 |
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The values for a given object are drawn from a finite set, such as the letters {A, B, C, . . . , Z} or a subset of integers {0, 1, 2, 3, . . . , MAX} |
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| 18) digital representation |
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Converted from a continuous set of values to a series of individual numeric values |
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The ability to continue functioning even in the presence of the failure of one or more components |
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| 20) fault-tolerant computing |
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The total number of cycles per unit time; measured in hertz (cycles/second) |
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An electronic device that operates on a collection of binary inputs to produce a binary output |
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The process of designing the low level components of a computer, including arithmetic and control circuits |
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Another term for hardware design as it uses the capabilities of Boolean logic to carry out the design process |
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Compress data in a way that guarantees no information is lost in the compression; it is possible to reproduce the original data exactly |
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Compress data in a way that does not guarantee that all of the information in the original data can be fully and completely recreated |
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A control circuit that has 2N input lines and 1 output line |
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The time it takes for a single wave in a periodic wave function |
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A numbering system in which each position of a number represents a value times the radix to a given power |
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| 30) positional numbering system |
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A method for storing an image in which a sequence of picture elements is digitized and stored one row at a time, from left to right |
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A method for encoding color that digitizes the contribution of the red, green, and blue components of each pixel |
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At fixed time intervals, the amplitude of a signal is measured and stored as an integer value; the wave is represented in digital form as a sequence of sampled numerical amplitudes |
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The time interval between sampling points |
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A way to represent real numbers as a mantissa times a base to an exponential power |
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A circuit that contains feedback loops in which the output of a gate is fed back as input to an earlier gate |
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A way to represent signed integer values in which one bit is used to represent the sign and the remaining bits are used to represent the magnitude |
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| 37) sign/magnitude notation |
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An electronic device that can be in an OFF state, which does not allow electricity to flow, or in an ON state, in which electricity can pass unimpeded; a transistor is a solid-state device that has no mechanical or moving parts |
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A table that contains columns labeled Inputs that list the possible combinations of true/false values |
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A way to represent signed integers in which we count up from zero to represent positive values and we count down from zero to represent negative values |
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| 40) two's complement representation |
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Uses a 16-bit representation for characters |
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