Subject: Re: CP-003
From: Paul J. Menchini (mench@mench.com)
Date: Wed Feb 19 2003 - 07:16:36 PST
Jim and all,
> ...
> So currently, we have a context understanding of logic and arithmetic
> operators. They are already different in how the allow operands to be
> used.
> For arithmetic it makes sense to understand '1' as "00000001".
> For logic I believe it makes sense to understand a control bit being
> '1' as expainding to "11111111". When I did gate level design, we had
> libraries with bussed parts. One of the parts allowed "AND"ing a
> control bit with a vector.
I think there's nothing unreasonable about making this distinction. I
was just concerned because it was not initially apparent that this
distinction was being made.
Provided that we make it obvious (through documentation and perhaps
naming conventions) that this is what's happening, then I'm ok with it.
Paul
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