/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>>1943562
>I'm going to restudy this entire textbook then because I'm so bad at this.

if you're doing for academic purposes, fine, but if it's to learn design, then 95% of that textbook is gonna be useless filler exercises with no application in real-life uses.

like the simplification in pic related. nobody but actual chip designers would ever need to do that, and if they did, they'd use software to do it which is 1 billion times faster and 1 million times less likely to contain errors. same for karnaugh maps, half-adders, full adders, shift registers or counters or muxers and demuxers using individual flip-flops, etc.

those topics exist today because the people who wrote the books had to slog thru them, and are making you do the same. it's like a hazing ceremony.

of course, you'll use individual gates, and individual flip-flops, but usually all by themselves to provide a simple necessary functionality, but not in large complicated functions.