Electricity and Electronics for Renewable Energy Technology

22Digital Electronics

OBJECTIVES: After studying this chapter, you will be able to

• Explain binary, hexadecimal, and octal number systems
• Explain the practical importance of all those number systems
• Write decimal numbers in binary, octal, and hexadecimal systems and convert those to decimal numbers
• Define bit, byte, word, LSB, MSB, overflow, flag, microprocessor, and microcontroller
• Understand conversion from an analog measurement to a digital number
• Describe the relationship between precision in measurement and the number of bits of digital representation of the measured value
• Define and use DAC, ADC, A/D, and D/A
• Define signed and unsigned numbers and their application in measurement of physical systems
• Do basic arithmetic operations in binary ...