Yes, you should be building subcircuits and using them in your ALU.
The reason we don't allow the libraries is that it would make the
assignment trivial because we want you to learn how adders, shifters,
and comparators work at the gate level.
Albert
Post by Neil BellA key instruction in hw5 says we can't use the circuits provided in
anything but Base and Gates, but I just wanted to confirm that we can build
*whatever* we want with what we can use. That is, we can build custom
circuits which also appear in the forbidden libraries. For example, custom
building a mux or demux?
Thanks,
Neil
Post by Neil BellIs Hw5 getting put up tonight?
Thanks,
Neil
My interpretation is you can build or use whatever sub-circuits you'd like,
so long as you don't directly use more advanced built-in parts from
libraries.
- Ari