I am just beginning to study logic design, and I had a few questions:
1. Since digital devices are made of gates, does that mean that even the most complicated design (for example, a P4 or AXP processor, or one of nvidia's GPUs) could be represented graphically as a collection of only NAND gates? This may be a dumb question but when I see the schematic for something like a full adder, it's fairly straightforward to see how the individual gates interact to compute the sum of two numbers. It seems almost impossible, however, to be able to trace through gates to demonstrate the operation of a complete processor.
2. Do the companies such as Intel, AMD, and nvidia use languages such as VHDL and Verilog to design their devices? Does Intel just have a file on one of their workstations called Pentium 4.vhd?
1. Since digital devices are made of gates, does that mean that even the most complicated design (for example, a P4 or AXP processor, or one of nvidia's GPUs) could be represented graphically as a collection of only NAND gates? This may be a dumb question but when I see the schematic for something like a full adder, it's fairly straightforward to see how the individual gates interact to compute the sum of two numbers. It seems almost impossible, however, to be able to trace through gates to demonstrate the operation of a complete processor.
2. Do the companies such as Intel, AMD, and nvidia use languages such as VHDL and Verilog to design their devices? Does Intel just have a file on one of their workstations called Pentium 4.vhd?