Note: The first week of CE1901 uses the laboratory period as a fourth lecture period.

Day 1

• Define voltage as electrical potential energy.
• Compare and contrast analog and digital voltage signals.
• Describe the 0 and 1 concept for digital signals.
• Describe positional number systems.
• List the powers-of-2 from 1 to 65536.
• Compare and contrast decimal digits and binary bits.
• Convert decimal numbers to binary numbers using the division-by-2 algorithm.
• Write the 3-bit and 4-bit unsigned binary numbers.

Day 2

• Convert binary numbers to decimal numbers using positional multiplication.
• State the maximum and minimum number on the n-bit unsigned number line.
• State the common names given to 4-bit and 8-bit binary numbers.
• Describe the octal and hexadecimal number systems.
• Convert binary numbers to octal numbers.
• Convert binary numbers to hexadecimal numbers.
• Convert octal and hexadecimal numbers to binary numbers.

Day 3

• Add unsigned binary numbers showing carries between columns.
• Define unsigned overflow.
• Describe how unsigned overflow is identified at the end of a calculation.
• Describe the sign-magnitude number line for signed numbers.
• State the fundamental flaw with the sign-magnitude representation for negative numbers.

Day 4

• Describe the twos-complement number line for signed numbers.
• State the maximum and minimum number on the n-bit twos-complement number line.
• Convert signed decimal numbers to twos-complement binary numbers.
• Convert twos-complement binary numbers to signed decimal numbers.
• Add signed binary numbers showing carries between columns.
• Define signed overflow.
• Describe how signed overflow is identified at the end of a calculation.