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Every type of computer or digital device is based on a set of chips which are made of:
Logic gates
What is a device that implements a Boolean function?
A logic gate
What is a function that operates on binary inputs and returns binary outputs?
A Boolean function
What set of three Boolean functions (excluding Nand) can be used to realize any Boolean function?
And, Or, and Not
What Boolean function can be used to realize And, Or, and Not?
Nand
Any Boolean function can be expressed as a table called a:
Truth table
Can any truth table be represented as a Boolean function?
Yes
What is a formalism used to design chip architecture?
Hardware Description Language
What is a common hardware term for the number of bits used by a computer to represent a basic chunk of information?
Word size
What is it called when adding binary numbers, the most significant bit addition generates a carry of 1?
Overflow