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		MasterScrat on June 4, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: /dev/zero has infinite electrons and /dev/null has... Isn't an FPGA basically a bunch of NAND or NOR gates whose connections can be arranged as necessary?

rcfox on June 4, 2012 [–]

No, it's a bunch of registers to hold state and look-up tables that map to your logic. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karnaugh_map)

truncate on June 5, 2012 | [–]

Registers can be made by using a bunch of flip-flops, which are again made using NAND/NOR.

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