UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AFRICA

SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING
CONTINUOUS ASSESSMENT

Major Online Test 1

Semester 2 Course

DSY1501
Digital Systems I

DURATION: 1 Hour 30 Minutes

Examiner: Ms MI Masopoga Moderator: Mr. NR Netshikweta
External Moderator: Marks: 40
Weight of Assessment: 35%
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Question 1
1.1 The binary number 10001100111001100111 can be written in hexadecimal as
(4)
1.2 Determine the decimal value of the following signed binary number in the 2’s
complement form:
11011101 (4)
10111111 (3)
01110101 (3)
1.3 The binary number 1001101010011101111 can be written in hexadecimal as
(3)
1.4 Calculate the duty cycle in % for a pulse with a period of 1 ms and an on time
of 0.75 ms (3)

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Question 2
A manufacturing plant uses two tanks to store certain liquid chemicals that are required
in a manufacturing process. Each tank has a sensor that detects when the chemical
level drops to 25% of full. The sensors produce a HIGH level of 5V when the tanks are
more than one-quarter full. When the volume of chemical in a tank drops to one-quarter
full, or less the sensor puts out a LOW level of 0V. It is required that a single green
light-emitting diode (LED) on an indicator panel shows when both tanks are more than
one-quarter full.
Show how a NAND gate can used to implement this
2.1 Show the truth table. (4)
2.2 Write the Boolean expression (3)
2.3 Show how a NAND gate can used to implement this (3)
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Question 3
3.1 Using Boolean algebra simplify the following expression:
̅̅̅̅) + (𝐴𝐵
𝐴𝐵𝐶𝐷 + 𝐴𝐵(𝐶𝐷 ̅̅̅̅ )𝐶𝐷 (6)
4.3 Convert the following Boolean expression into standard SOP form:

𝐴𝐵̅ 𝐶 + 𝐶̅ 𝐵̅ + 𝐴𝐵𝐶̅ 𝐷 (4)

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Total = [40]