Re: Using the RM for ADTs

From: David BL <davidbl_at_iinet.net.au>
Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2009 06:59:30 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <8385d246-9740-4ebb-87f4-a810a80a8090_at_q40g2000prh.googlegroups.com>

On Jul 12, 2:06 pm, "Brian Selzer" <br..._at_selzer-software.com> wrote:

> This assumes that the circuits being "instantiated" are known ahead of time.
> How is that knowledge arrived at? Where does it come from?

Circuit designers. In practise tremendous data compression is possible. For example a 32 bit ripple carry adder can be built from 32 full adders, where each full adder is made from 2 XOR, 2 AND and 1 OR gate, and each of these gates involves a particular configuration of transistors. Received on Sun Jul 12 2009 - 08:59:30 CDT