COA: Computer Organisation & Architecture Data Format
What is data format? The binary representation of data values. Why do we need to study? #conceptBuilder If you had done C/C++ programming in past or if not done then also no problem I'll tell you that there are some data types like int (for integers), char (for characters), float (for decimal numbers) etc. So we are giving the input in the format that we are understanding. But our computer can't understand these languages it only understands the machine language (binary language). So in our architecture, we have to do something to convert these to machine language and then the role of data format comes into the frame. Classification of Data In our syllabus, we only deal with Fixed-point and floating-point. And for characters, only we need to remember its name and full form for general knowledge point of view. Now, getting started with Fixed Point. Fixed point Unsigned In an unsigned fixed point, we simply convert the given number system to a binary numbe...