PLEASE HELP!! For the following Clock time (assume the colon is a constant 12:01, translate into
a) BCD
b) ASCII
To translate the clock time 12:01 into BCD (Binary Coded Decimal) and ASCII, we need to understand the representation of each of these systems.
BCD (Binary Coded Decimal):
BCD is a way of representing decimal numbers as a binary number where each digit is represented by a 4-bit binary code. In BCD, each decimal digit is represented by a binary code from 0000 to 1001.
ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange):
ASCII is a character encoding standard that represents text in computers and other devices. It uses a 7-bit binary code to represent characters, with each character having a unique code assigned to it.
a) Translating 12:01 into BCD:
To translate the clock time 12:01 into BCD, we need to represent each digit (1, 2, 0, and 1) in binary form using a 4-bit binary code.
The BCD representation of 12:01 would be:
1 -> 0001
2 -> 0010
0 -> 0000
1 -> 0001
So, the BCD representation of 12:01 would be: 0001 0010 0000 0001
b) Translating 12:01 into ASCII:
ASCII is used to represent characters, so to translate the clock time into ASCII, we need to assign appropriate ASCII codes to each character.
Since we are dealing with only numbers in the clock time, we can directly use the ASCII values for the digits 1, 2, 0, and 1. The ASCII values for '0' to '9' are 48 to 57, respectively.
The ASCII representation of 12:01 would be:
'1' -> 49
'2' -> 50
':' -> 58
'0' -> 48
'1' -> 49
So, the ASCII representation of 12:01 would be: 49 50 58 48 49
I hope this helps! Let me know if you have any further questions.