Re: De-bus pins?

Posted by mmiller7 on
URL: http://nand2tetris-questions-and-answers-forum.52.s1.nabble.com/De-bus-pins-tp2802816p2804455.html

Ah, ok.  That does make sense...when you're talking about millions of gates a dozen really is trivial.

Designing real-world hardware I think I can understand why it might be desirable to specify what happens to sub-componants when they are "inactive" but I felt like for the purpose fo the HACK computer it shouldn't really matter.  During an A-instruction I wrote it so the output of my ALU goes nowhere so I felt like it would be redundant to try and specify what it's doing.  I suppose it all depends how the data is going to be used as to what the state should be.