#NAND X PROGRAMMER CSAE CODE#
And when your code works the first time around, thank a NAND gate. If you've ever heard of 3D NAND, you now know what that NAND stands for. It just so happens that in real-world computer chips NAND is one of the easiest things to build. (One way to become better is seeing examples, like this). The better we become at this skill, the better programmers we become.
#NAND X PROGRAMMER CSAE SOFTWARE#
Many, many things in the business of software development see drastic improvements from transforming the physical operations while keeping logical equivalence. Because while they are logically equivalent they are not operationally equivalent one of them will finish faster when a physical computer executes the sort. What is the difference between a Bubble Sort and a Quick Sort? They will both give an equally sorted output after all. This is for your edification and education. but please don't write all your booleans using only NANDs. The interconnection of gates to perform a variety of logical operation is called logic design. NOT, OR, and AND Gates are the basic types of gates. logic gates are fundamental building blocks of the digital system. If you accept that AND, OR, and NOT are functionally complete, since NAND can build each of those three things, NAND, all by itself, is functionally complete! A logic gate is a circuit with one or more input voltages but only one output voltages. (We just did DeMorgan's Theorem a very cool trick for making boolean code more readable but we'll talk more about that later) In JavaScript, if we had a nand(x, y) function, we could make not() like this:Įnter fullscreen mode Exit fullscreen mode Notice how this new operator constantly outputs until an input is received and then it stops (aka NOT logic). What would happen if instead of two inputs, we tied them both together as one input? You've seen the animation of a NAND in a Wireworld above (NAND-imation anyone?). What if I told you we need only one operator to be functionally complete? That's right! All you need is NAND (short for Not AND !(x & y)). Combined with some sort of memory, functionally complete operators can be used to build a turing complete system. Together these operators are functionally complete, meaning they can be used to build any boolean logic. ) via a USB port with the correct timing file. Allows you to programm your chip (CoolRunner, X360GlitchChip. Allows dumping and fast writing of the NAND. If you've spent any time programming, you may recognize the "big three" boolean operators: AND, OR, and NOT (often written &, ||, ! in many programming languages). Allows programming of NAND for 360 FAT and 360 Slim. All animations courtesy of my Wireworld built in Svelte