4 parts:
might be not complete, left out stupid answers and braindead moments :)
was asked about the von neumann architecture? told something i could remember about cpus, was a weird discussion.
then about an ASIC. whats better about ASICs
is a von neumann cpu also an asic?
where to configurable devices lay in the scale of von neumann and asics?
why whould you use such devices? possible answers that I gave were:
rapid prototyping cost …?
PLD are?
Whats a PLA?
Implement the function a equals b on a PLA. gave a truth table. then sketched a PLA and showed how the funktion would be implemented on a PLA
Whats an FPGA? whats a coarse grained device, and how does it differ to an device made of luts. bit functions versus word level logic (i suppose something like this)
I was presented a function
``` abd + ~cd + ~a~bd + a ```
how many luts do you need to implement this?
was a bit wonky here, because i didn't a good look at the funktion and was a bit confused
what are the constraints?
told them the 3 principles forgot about the 4th, but remembered quickly
was shown 2 Partitions, both had constraint violations I needed to identify
Was shown the example from the lecture.
Where could you place a new module here?
Mark all maximal squares.
there would have been further questions, but we ran out of time.