Digital Logic - GATE Practice Questions
GATE previous year questions on digital logic including multiplexers, flip-flops, Boolean algebra, Karnaugh maps, state machines, and number representation
Questions
Consider the circuit shown below. The output of a 2:1 Mux is given by the function (ac' + bc).

Which of the following is true?
- f = x1' + x2
- f = x1'x2 + x1x2'
- f = x1x2 + x1'x2'
- f = x1 + x2
Consider the circuit given below the initial state Q0 = 1,Q1 = Q2 = 0. The state of the circuit is given by the value 4Q2+ 2Q1+ Q0

Which one of the following is the correct state sequence of the circuit?
- 1, 3, 4, 6, 7, 5, 2
- 1, 2, 5, 3, 7, 6, 4
- 1, 2, 7, 3, 5, 6, 4
- 1, 6, 5, 7, 2, 3, 5
Consider the following logic circuit whose inputs are functions f1, f2, f3 and output is f

Given that
f1(x,y, z) = $\sum$(0,1,3,5)
f2(x,y,z) = $\sum$(6,7), and
f (x,y,z) = $\sum$(1,4,5) f3 is
- $\sum$ (1,4,5)
- $\sum$ (6,7)
- $\sum$ (0,1,3,5)
- None of the above
Let f (A,B) = A' + B. Simplified expression for function f (f (x + y,y), z) is
- x' + z
- xyz
- xy' + z
- None of the above
Consider the following multiplexor where 10, 11, 12, 13 are four data input lines selected by two address line combinations A1A0 = 00,01,10,11 respectively and f is the output of the multiplexor. EN is the Enable input.

The function f (x,y,z) implemented by the above circuit is
- xyz'
- xy + z
- x + y
- None of the above
The finite state machine described by the following state diagram with A as starting state, where an arc label is $\dfrac{x}{y}$ and x stands for 1-bit input and y stands for 2-bit output.

- Outputs the sum of the present and the previous bits of the input.
- Outputs 01 whenever the input sequence contains 11
- Outputs 00 whenever the input sequence contains 10
- None of the above.
Given the following Karnaugh map, which one of the following represents the minimal sum-of-Products of the map?

- xy + y'z
- wx'y' + xy + xz
- w'x + y'z + xy
- xz + y
Minimum sum of product expression for f (w,x,y,z) shown in Karnaugh-map below is

- xz + y'z
- xz' + zx'
- x'y + zx'
- None of the above
Consider the following circuit with initial state Q0 = Q1 = 0. The D flip-flops are positive edged triggered and have set up times 20 nanosecond and hold times 0.

Consider the following timing diagrams of X and C ; the clock of C
40 nanosecond. Which one is the correct plot of Y

The 2's complement representation of (− 539)10 in hexadecimal is
- ABE
- DBC
- DE5
- 9E7
The 2's complement represent representation of the decimal value −15 is
- 1111
- 11111
- 111111
- 10001
The decimal value of 0.25
- is equivalent to the binary value 0.1
- is equivalent to the binary value 0.01
- is equivalent to the binary value 0.00111.....
- cannot be represented precisely in binary.











