On Friday 16 June 2006 21:26, Timothy Miller wrote:
> What should Lesson 4 be about?
>
> Have we covered combinatiorial behavioral code well enough?  Do we
> need more of that, or should I move on to sequential?  Or is there
> something more basic I need to cover?
>
> Someone mentioned truth tables.  I don't know how basic I need to get.
>  I'm assuming that the target audience knows C programming and
> therefore understands logic functions like & and |.  But is that a bad
> assumption?

Possibly. I find lots (Most?) of IT people in the real world don't actually 
even understand that. Perhaps we're lucky in our audience and they (Sorry, I 
sound like I'm talking behind everyones backs here :) really do understand... 

What about relating simple logic diagrams to verilog. Explaining how the 
ODDRxx/IDDRxx primitives work (I know they're in the ECP2 PDF however I had 
to find them in there to really understand the spi-prom use of them, but that 
doesn't go down into the nitty gritty of the logic gates within a flip/flop. 
I knew that years ago, and can always reference on of my books to build one 
from scratch again, but  how about how to build a flip/flop in logic and 
verilog?

(Most C (And jave etc) programmers won't understand even simple logic diagrams 
because they've never been exposed to them. Heck most people when I did my 
degree avoided the hardware papers like the plague. I think there were 
possibly less than 10% of us that even took the second year ones must less 
3rd & 4th).


Hamish.

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