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--- intro_example:gates [2020/05/01 16:32]
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+++ intro_example:gates [2020/12/02 01:00]
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-This would be accepted by ACT, and the production rule simulator [[tools:prsim|prsim]] can simulate such rules without difficulty. However,
+This would be accepted by ACT, and the production rule simulator [[tools:prsim|prsim]] can simulate such rules without difficulty. However, a CMOS circuit designer would observe that one cannot implement this directly using a single pull-up and pull-down network in static CMOS. Instead, someone used to circuit design would write:
-a circuit designer would look at this and point out that we cannot implement this directly using a single pull-up and pull-down network in
-static CMOS. Instead, someone used to circuit design would write:
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 In terms of naming, the ports of ''n'' are ''n.a'', ''n.b'', and ''n.c''; similarly the ports for ''i'' are ''i.i'' and ''i.o''. ACT uses the dot as a hierarchy separator. This version of an ''and2'' contains one level of hierarchy.
-ACT provides a very flexible mechanism for connecting signals. The following a variants that correspond to the same connections.
+ACT provides a very flexible mechanism for connecting signals. The following are variants that correspond to the same connections.
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 {
   nand2 n(.a=a, .b=b);
-  inverter i(.i=n.c, .o=c);  // note that we don't need the intermediate _c
+  inverter i(.i=n.c, .o=c);  // note that we don't need the intermediate name _c
 }