Re: lab 5 (PAL)

Ed Casas (edc@ece.ubc.ca) Sun, 12 Nov 2000 23:23:03 -0800 

Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2000 23:23:03 -0800
From: Ed Casas <edc@ece.ubc.ca>
Subject: Re: lab 5 (PAL)



> I'm plowing through lab 5 at the moment and have come across an ambiguity
> regarding the number of LEDs available for connection to pins 13-19 (7
> total) for the purpose of displaying the current state.  Are we restricted
> to the 4 LEDs on the DigiDesigner (less one LED for the lock state) or
> will there be more LEDs made available? I realize that I won't need to use
> all of the available output pins for state diagnostics but the number of
> LEDs available drastically affects the approach I use to solve the lab.

Yes, the DigiDesigner only has 4 LEDs.  You can allocate as many
of the output pins as you want for state variables but you'll
only be able to look at 4 outputs at a time.

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