VELAMMAL COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY, MADURAI

Department of Electronics & Communication Engineering

Internal Assessment Test –I
EC8392-Digital Electronics
Class : II year ECE ‘A’ Sec Time Duration : 1hour 30 Mins Total Marks:50
Date : 01.09.2020
PART -A 8×2 = 16

1. What do you mean by minterms and maxterms?(Remember)

2. State and prove Distributive property.(Understand)
3. What is principle of dulality?(Remember)
4. Convert (AB+C) (B+C’D) into sum of products form.(Apply)
5. Express the Boolean function F=A+B’C in a sum of minterms.(Apply)
6. Realize OR gate using NAND gates only.(Apply)
7. Simplify the Boolean expression to a minimum number of literals (BC’+A’D) (AB’+CD’).(Apply)
8. Prove the De-Morgan’s laws(any one) using Boolean algebra.(Apply)

PART -B 2x13=26

9. Simplify the Boolean function using K-map

F(A,B,C,D,E)= π M(0,1,4,5,9,11,13,15,16,17,25,27,28,29,31) + π d (20,21,22,30) (Apply) (13)
OR
10. Minimize the switching function F(w,x,y,z)=∑(0,5,7,8,9,10,11,14,15) using Quine-McCluskey
method.(Apply) (13)
11. a) Realize a 2-input XOR gate using NAND gates only and NOR gates only.(Apply) (5)
b) Obtain the simplified Boolean function for the given function F=∑ (1,4,5,10,11,14,15) using
K- map. Also implement the function using NAND gates only (Apply) (8)
OR
12. Minimize the given terms π M (0,1,4,11,13,15) + π d (5,7,8) using Quine-McCluskey method and
verify the results using K-map methods. (13)
PART -C 1x8=8

13. Find the complement of F=wx+yz then show that FF’=0 and F+F’=1(Apply) (8)
OR
14. a) Convert the hexadecimal number 64CD to binary, and then convert it from binary to octal.(3)
b) Convert the decimal number 431 to binary in two ways: (a) convert directly to binary;
Convert first to hexadecimal and then from hexadecimal to binary. Which method is faster?(5)