"Coding" a chip

Posted by mbm29414 on
URL: http://nand2tetris-questions-and-answers-forum.52.s1.nabble.com/Coding-a-chip-tp2351311p2353795.html

Well, so I read your helpful HDL document; I hadn't realized before that this wasn't programming.

I now realize that I can simply draw the diagram and label each wire, making sure that those wires are the input and output of the correct chips as I "design" the chip in HDL.

That really makes the whole concepts of Chapters 1, 2 and 3 come alive and into focus a lot more for me.

Thank you for that bit of knowledge.

I have to admit, though, that's it still weird for me to think that order doesn't matter. I could completely reverse the order of my ALU and it still works? <Shudder />

(And, yes, I now realize that I put my user name where the topic title should have gone. D'oh! I've tried changing the subject; if a moderator reads this, "Coding" a chip is a better title for this post. Might be more useful to others that way.)