Logic circuit?

[etstudent]

I DO NOT want the answer, just point me in the right direction, I'm a bit lost here. I'm not great with logic circuits to begin with. Let me know if the file opens too? Thanks for any help.




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[PA0PBZ]

Work from back to front, fill in the 1's or 0's that make it happen...

[etstudent]

Thanks, that is good advice.

[etstudent]

I believe its 011110, am I correct?

[PA0PBZ]

I believe its 011110, am I correct?

Yup, I have to agree.

[Psi]

yep, that's what i get too

[Jimmy]

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[psycho0815]

Maybe i'm missing something, but since when does a nibble have 6 bits?

[rolycat]

Maybe i'm missing something, but since when does a nibble have 6 bits?

I'm guessing the individual setting the question was a bit 'old school' - once upon a time nibbles could have more than four bits. Similarly, bytes weren't always eight bits long. Some early mainframe computers had a 36-bit word length, and a byte could be nine bits, or even six.

[GeoffS]

Maybe i'm missing something, but since when does a nibble have 6 bits?

I'm guessing the individual setting the question was a bit 'old school' - once upon a time nibbles could have more than four bits. Similarly, bytes weren't always eight bits long. Some early mainframe computers had a 36-bit word length, and a byte could be nine bits, or even six.

Very old school! The first computers I worked on (Univac 1108)  were 36 bit word with ASCII characters taking either 9 bits (1 bit ignored)  or 6 bits (upper case letters only). The term byte wasn't used.

[rolycat]

Very old school! The first computers I worked on (Univac 1108)  were 36 bit word with ASCII characters taking either 9 bits (1 bit ignored)  or 6 bits (upper case letters only.

Well, the 6-bit characters used an encoding called Fieldata, not ASCII, which has always featured lower-case characters. 

The term byte wasn't used.

Not by Univac - they called them quarter words or sixth words. However, IBM and DEC also had 36-bit machines. The DEC PDP10 had byte instructions for which the byte could be any length between 1 and 36 bits.

OK, I admit it - I'm a bit old-school, too.


 

[etstudent]

Thanks guys, I appreciate the help and info. I'm glad I came up with the right answer. What exactly are nibbles, just a bit of the code that turns on the circuit? Do you use this often in the field? I'm having trouble with gates, truth tables, and this kinda stuff. AND, OR, NOT, NAND, and the rest just confuses me. Makes me nervous if I get a job working with linear circuits.

[psycho0815]

Maybe i'm missing something, but since when does a nibble have 6 bits?

I'm guessing the individual setting the question was a bit 'old school' - once upon a time nibbles could have more than four bits. Similarly, bytes weren't always eight bits long. Some early mainframe computers had a 36-bit word length, and a byte could be nine bits, or even six.

Very old school! The first computers I worked on (Univac 1108)  were 36 bit word with ASCII characters taking either 9 bits (1 bit ignored)  or 6 bits (upper case letters only. The term byte wasn't used.

Thanks, i didn't know that. guess I'm too young...

[Bored@Work]

What exactly are nibbles,

One half of a byte. I.e. in these times of eight bit bytes a nibble is four bit.

And when run into the term "octet", that is another name for an eight bit byte, born when bytes weren't by default eight bit.

[etstudent]

Thanks, appreciate the info. Is this something used a lot in the field?

[SeanB]

I worked on serial word machines, where a word was up to a 16 bit number, but could be variable length depending on where it was used. Mostly because the storage was a pair of shift registers of limited length, MK4007 cmos shift registers. They had their own supply rails.............

[Bored@Work]

Thanks, appreciate the info. Is this something used a lot in the field?

Octet is typical for telco stuff. They still love to distinguish between the well defined octet and the once only vaguely defined byte. The rest of the world moved on and uses byte for eight bits, unless explicitly specified differently.

Nibble is used when you need it, i.e. when you need to talk about half a byte. Which is not too often. One case is when you do packed BCD numbers.

[PA0PBZ]

@etstudent:

Hard to answer if you delete the post

[etstudent]

Sorry the picture would not post, file too large, but its the same thing i did yesterday and it posted fine. Let me try again.

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What would be the outputs of this circuit if the inputs are 010011 and 101000?

Thanks for any help. I think its 1,1 right now? What do you think of the question overall?

[PA0PBZ]

I see 3 AND ports which will only output a 1 if both inputs are 1
The bottom 2 AND ports will never output a 1 because you will need 11XXXX or XX11XX for that.
The upper AND port is followed by an inverter, so to get a 1 at the input of the last OR port (pin 1) you need a 0 at the output of the upper AND.
This will happen when the input is not 11, so for 101000.
My answer would be C. 0,1

[andersm]

Octet is typical for telco stuff.

You'll also run into the word if you work with French people, as that's what they use for byte.

[etstudent]

Thanks PA0PBZ, appreciate the help. I have one or two more that I'm gonna post soon. I want to master this.

[etstudent]

For that same circuit I have another question. The outputs would be for inputs of 111111 and 000000?

Is it not 0,0? or 0,1? My guess now is 0,0. thanks for the help.

[PA0PBZ]

I'd say 1,1 but this time you prove it 

[etstudent]

I'd say 1,1 but this time you prove it 

Honestly these logic gates and logic circuits confuse me so bad I'm not sure. This is the one part of my program that just confused me very bad. Thanks for the help though, I appreciate.