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In school, I studied digital logic (like, chips and hardware) as much as I studied anything software, but professionally I’ve only written code. One of the big
by vineyardmike 3y ago
In school, I studied digital logic (like, chips and hardware) as much as I studied anything software, but professionally I’ve only written code.
One of the biggest “disappointments” my professors shared - which I’ve never confirmed in industry- is that this is super common for digital logic, or else it’s just a “lookup table” with precomputed outputs for every input.
- snvzz 3y ago>else it’s just a “lookup table” with precomputed outputs for every input. This is how FPGAs work. Because they need to be programable, so the LUTs are in SRAMs inside the logic blocks. But actual custom ASICs don't use SRAM, as SRAM has higher area and power cost than logic.