Re: Program Counter Implementation

Posted by CaptainBarnacles on Dec 29, 2012; 5:55pm
URL: http://nand2tetris-questions-and-answers-forum.52.s1.nabble.com/Program-Counter-Implementation-tp2974049p4025943.html

Many thanks for all the advice about the program counter chip (and indeed about the course as a whole, which is fascinating) - it is very helpful to read other people's experiences.  I've now got a working version that passes the test cases but I have an uneasy feeling that my solution might be a bit more complicated than totally necessary and that there is a 'right' way of solving this that the authors are trying to guide me towards.

I guess that a good metric for complexity is the number of component parts.  My solution uses two 'OR' gates, three 'Mux16' gates, a 'Register' and an 'Inc16'.  Is this optimum or should I be looking for a simpler way of doing this?

 
Many thanks.