Explain the following with the help of an example or a diagram, whichever is appropriate: 8m jun2006 (i) Parity bit (ii) Floating point notation (iii) Refresh rates in video controllers (iv) An l/O channel Parity bit An error bit changes from 0 to 1 or 1 to 0. One of the simplest… Read More »
Represent the following numbers in IEEE-754 floating point single precision number format: 4m Dec2005 (i) 1011.1001 (ii) -0.0011001 Single Precision S stands for Sign (white color) E stands for Exponent (yellow color) N stands for Number (also called Mantissa or Significand) (green color) 0this Sign bit (1 bit) 1st to 8this Exponent… Read More »
Represent the number (-26.5)10 as a floating point binary number with 24 bits. The normalized fraction mantissa has 16 bits and the exponent has 8 bits. Make and state suitable assumptions, if any 5m Dec2005 First of all draw the 24 bits precision representations S stands for Sign (white color) E stands for Exponent (yellow color) N stands for Number… Read More »