Meanings
nounone-cold (plural one-colds)
plural one-colds
- businessA set of bits with only a single low (0) bit, with the remaining bits high (1).
One-cold encoding has the same advantages and disadvantages as one-hot. The difference is that the active bit is logic zero rather than logic one. One-cold encoding is most useful for systems that have active-low enable signals.
2015, Ronald W. Mehler, Digital Integrated Circuit Design Using Verilog and Systemverilog, Elsevier, →ISBN, page 410Antonyms: one-hot
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA set of bits with only a single low (0) bit, with the remaining bits high (1).
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