I remember back in Intro to CompE, we did the first project using handful of 7400s to build seven segment display driver using a bunch of switches to control th

I remember back in Intro to CompE, we did the first project using handful of 7400s to build seven segment display driver using a bunch of switches to control the input 3-bit value. It required more chips and breadboard real estate than we had so we were only required to count up to 6. Immediately after that, we got our FPGAs and did the same project but with a button that would increment the 8-bit counter. The coding took about 10mins in verilog compared to the hours of logic diagramming and wiring.