ECE327 Midterm: ECE 327 University of Waterloo 2012 Term 2 Midterm

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Time limit: 1 hour, 20 minutes (80 minutes: no books, no notes, no computers. Calculators are allowed: if you need extra paper, request some from a proctor, write neatly. To earn partial credit, you must show the formulas you are using and all of your work: the proctors and instructors will not answer questions, except in cases where an error on the exam is suspected. If you are confused about a question, write down your assumptions or interpretation: justi cations of answers will be marked according to correctness, clarity, and concision. Q3 the good, the bad, and the unsynthesizable. Q1 (25 marks) short answer (estimated time: 20 minutes) Which state encoding is probably the best choice for a system that has a latency of 3 clock cycles and where there are at least. Either write down the name of the encoding, or describe the encoding. If you write the name of the encoding, you do not need to describe it.