Encodings

Question 1

In general, a sequence or group of k bits can represent one of ______ distinct k-bit patterns

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2^k

Question 2

In order for groups of bits to have an meaning (aka store data), what needs to happen?

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Question 3

As notation, when there is a sequence of bits, the highest and lowest order bits are called _________?

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Highest order bit = most significant bit (msb)

Lowest order bit = least significant bit

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178

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What are the two ways to perform this encode?

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Question 6

In general, how does unisigned integer arithmetic work?

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that last bit goes into the condition code register, which tells you about this lost bit; overflow

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What are the 3 different encoding methods for signed numbers?

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1. Sign magnitude representation
2. 1’s complement representation
3. 2’s complement representation

Modern day computers use 2’s complement representation for signed numbers

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In general, what is Sign Magnitude Representation?

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In general, how does One’s complement representation work?

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Using One’s compliment

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In general, What is two’s complement representation?

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What are some of the advantages of Two’s Completement Representation?

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Question 17

Using Two’s Complement in general, how do we convert Binary to Decimal?

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Question 18

Conver the following Two’s Complement encoded number into decimal (base 10)

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In general, how do you convert Decimal to a Binary Two’s Complement representation?

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Where are arithmetic and logic operations typically implemented?

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In the Arithmetic Logic Unit (ALU)

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In general, hows does two's complement representaton for Addition work?

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In general how does Two's Complement Representation work for Subraction

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In general, what is sign extension? We have a number in 4 bits, the number -1 represented by 1111₂ convert to an 8 bit number.

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example, using 4 bits, the number -1 is represented by 1111₂. If we just pad it with 4 zeros, this becomes the 8 bits 00001111₂. However, this is not the encoding for -1 using 8 bits (the correct encoding is 11111111₂) The correct thing to do is to replicate the msb. This is known as _sign extension_. For example, using 4 bits, the number -1 is represented by 1111₂. If we replicate the msb bit with 4 times, this becomes the 8 bits 11111111₂, which is the 8 bit encoding for -1

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What is Overflow/Underflow?

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Question 31

What is the way to test for overflow/underflow?

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In general, how can any decimal with a fixed number of digits be represented using a sum of (negative owers of 2s)?

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What is the technique for finding the binary representation for a decimal point number *D*

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In general, how does IEEE floating point representation work?

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What are the special properties of Single-Precision encoding?

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Question 42

In general how are Characters and Strings encoded?

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