Author: Tom Kerrigan
Date: 00:11:10 02/19/02
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On February 18, 2002 at 23:04:21, Russell Reagan wrote: >In reading the Deep Blue post below, I was curious how exactly they program >hardware to perform certain actions. Is it similair to the way that they make a >CPU with certain instructions that it can execute? Is this something that the >common person can experiment with, or do you have to be IBM (or other big >computer company) to play around with stuff like that? Seems interesting to me. >I'd like to know more about it. If you take a course in digital logic, you can learn how to do this stuff. The de facto standard textbook is Contemporary Logic Design by Katz. You can experiment with it by using logic simulation software or by buying an FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array = programmable logic) prototyping board. You can use software-programming-like languages (VHDL or Verilog) to design logic but you really need to understand how to do it by hand before you use them. -Tom
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