Re: Questions 6 and 8

From: Jose Nelson Amaral (amaral@cs.ualberta.ca)
Date: Tue Nov 20 2001 - 16:51:06 MST


On Tue, 20 Nov 2001 jarett.hailes@telusplanet.net wrote:

> Dr. Amaral:
>
> I have two questions regarding the homework.
>
> Question 6: What does 'relationships to be satisfied' mean? Are we trying to
> have an equation or inequality for t(Fmin) and t(Fmax)?

It is an inequality, similar to the one that appears on slide 5 of
TopicD, but using the minimum and maximum times specified in the
question.

> Question 8 - part 3: I don't understand how to determine Ji and Ki for each
> flip flop, given we don't have a logic diagram. All we have is our state/output
> table and our state diagram. How can we determine J and K from these?

Using the application table on Table 7-10, page 577 of the text (read
section 7.4.5 also).

                Cheers,

                                Nelson

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