NAME : JEFFERSON MAKURI NSEMBE

CODE : BBIT/2019/51296

SCHOOL OF PURE AND APPLIED SCIENCES

DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICAL SCIENCES
BACHELOR OF EDUCATION
CAT
UNIT CODE: BEG 212 UNIT TITLE: DIGITAL ELECTRONICS AND DEVICES

Question one

a) State the steps for converting an octal number into a hexadecimal

number (3 marks)

T The First Step is to convert the Octal Number Into Binary.

The Second Step is to convert the binary number to hexadecimal.

With those steps one is able to convert the octal into a hexadecimal
number.
b) Determine the decimal equivalent of the binary number (1010.011) 2
(4marks)

1 0 1 0 . 0 1 1
23 22 21 20 . 20 2-1 2-2

0.2 * 0 = 0
1.2 * 1 = 2
0.2 * 2 = 0
1.2 * 3 = 8
________________
0 + 2 + 0 + 8 = 10
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10 + (.011)2
 10 + 0.0 +0.25 +0.125
Answer = 10.375
c) Convert hexadecimal number, 4.BF85 into equivalent octal number (3
marks)
Hex to Octo Table

HEX OCTO

4 4

B 13
F 17

8 10

5 5

Octal number: 4.577024

Conversion: Hexadecimal to Octal

(4.BF85)16   = (4.577024)8

d) The 7’s complement of a certain octal number is 5264. Determine the

binary and hexadecimal equivalents of that octal number (3mrks)
First Step Octal To Binary

5264 / 2 0
2812 / 2 1
1406 / 2 0
703 / 2 1
351 / 2 0
175 / 2 1
87 / 2 0
43 / 2 1
21 / 2 1
10 / 2 0
 5/2 1
2/2 0
1/2 0

Octal number = 5 2 6 4

Binary = 101010110100

Second Step Binary to Octo

A = 1010
B = 1011
4 = 0100
Hexadecimal = AB4

e) Convert the decimal 74 into binary (4mrks)

7 = 111
4 = 100

74 / 2 37 0
Binary = 1001010
37 / 2 18 1
18 / 2 9 0
f) How many bits would be
9/2 4 1
required to encode decimal
4/2 2 0 numbers 0 to 9999 in
2/2 1 0
straight binary and BCD
1/2 1 1 codes? What would be the
BCD equivalent of decimal 27 in 16-bit representation? (3mrks)
The Number of bits required to encode is by Total number of decimals to
be represented = 10000 = 10 4 = 2n (where n is the number of bits required)
= 213.29. Therefore, the number of bits required for straight binary encoding
= 14.
g) State three applications of the Gray code (3mrks)
Gray codes have application in ADC(Analog to Digital Converter) designing,
they are used to encode the position of a motor.

This code also finds application in K-Map(If you are familiar with it),
which can be used to reduce boolean expressions.

The third application is In error correction and detection internally.

h) Differentiate between Internal memory and Auxiliary memory (2mrks)

Internal memory  is directly accessed by CPU While

the Auxiliary memory is not accessed by the CPU directly.

i) State what is meant by digitization process (1 mrk)

Digitization process is of crucial importance for data processing, storage

and transmission, because it “allows information of all kinds in all formats
to be carried with the same efficiency and also intermingled”. 

j) Convert (367)10 into its Excess-3 code (4 mrks)

3 6 7
+3 +3 +3
=6 =9 =10
0110 1001 1010

Therefore  (367)10=(011010011010)XS3
k) Give the steps for which any Gray code can be converted into an
equivalent binary number (3mrks)
Steps with Example
Example − Convert Gray code 100111 into Binary number.
 Steps
b5=g5=1=1
b4=g5⊕g4 =1⊕0 =1
b3=b4⊕g3 =1⊕0 =1
b2=b3⊕g2 =1⊕1 =0
b1=b2⊕g1 =0⊕1 =1
b0=b1⊕g0 =1⊕1 =0
So, Binary number will be 111010.

l) Describe a two input AND gate, giving its truth table (4mrks)

A two input AND gate is a classical logic gate which gives the output equal to

the Boolean multiplication of the inputs.

The below image Shows The Truth Table;

Input Output
0 0 0
0 1 0
1 0 0
1 1 1