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Re: Show HN: A game where you build a GPU

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Post by Jaso1024 »

john_strinlai wrote: post #24

as a learning resource, it would be great it acronyms were expanded at least once. nmos, pmos, gnd, vdd all in the first 5 seconds or so, and i didnt see anywhere that actually said what those stood for otherwise, looks polished and fills in a nice niche!

I had an arc 0 where it went through some of these topics more in depth and explained them, deleted it b/c i couldn't get the UI to look right. I've pushed a bandaid that should fix this, but ill bring in arc 0 (it seems this is a popular request) after polishing it (ill also make it optional)

Re: Show HN: A game where you build a GPU

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Post by II2II »

john_strinlai wrote: post #24

as a learning resource, it would be great it acronyms were expanded at least once. nmos, pmos, gnd, vdd all in the first 5 seconds or so, and i didnt see anywhere that actually said what those stood for otherwise, looks polished and fills in a nice niche!

There's the info boxes that it could be added to, that way it is always available at a mouse click.

That said, I'm not sure how useful expanding most of the acronyms would be. Names like Negative/Positive Metal Oxide Semiconductor aren't exactly self-explanatory, Vdd isn't really an acronym, etc..

Re: Show HN: A game where you build a GPU

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Post by fleshers »

This is awesome! The truth table lightning round took me by surprise, I am rustier than I thought...

One note: It isn't immediately obvious that the In/Out nodes can be connected to multiple wires, made the first few rounds harder to work thru.

Re: Show HN: A game where you build a GPU

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Post by Jaso1024 »

fleshers wrote: post #35

This is awesome! The truth table lightning round took me by surprise, I am rustier than I thought... One note: It isn't immediately obvious that the In/Out nodes can be connected to multiple wires, made the first few rounds harder to work thru.

I see, thx, ill add a note in the game to make it more clear

Re: Show HN: A game where you build a GPU

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Post by rustybolt »

This is great!

Some comments:

- I didn't like the "truth tables" one, I got many duplicate questions and for some reason I got only one second for the first question. The rest of the questions I managed to answer correctly but I still got only one start out of three?

- I got very confused by the capacitor. Capacitors do not have an "enable" gate! In fact, in 2.7 (1T1C) you are supposed to build the enable gate -- with a transistor. So currently, you can just simply not build the enable gate and use the one already in the primitive, meaning you don't need the NMOS gate at all.

Was this made using LLM-assistence? (Not judging, I'm just interested!) I'd love to hear more about your workflow and how you managed to produce a good UI as it's something I couldn't do if my life depended on it, and it's a skill I'd like to learn.

Re: Show HN: A game where you build a GPU

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Post by roadbuster »

I worked on deep sub-micron, full custom mixed-signal integrated circuits for more than a decade, and I can't pass the first level.

> Wire an NMOS transistor so that when In is 1, the output is pulled to ground (0). When In is 0, the output should be unconnected (Z).

Certainly:

(a) The nMOS has 3 connections: its drain is only connected to the output (no +Vdd supply), it's source is tied to ground, it's gate is tied to the signal input

(b) When the gate (input) is driven high, the nMOS transistor turns "on," connecting the output to the source (which is grounded). This acts as a "pull-down network"

(c) When the gate is driven low, the nMOS turns "off," leaving no connection to the output. This is equivalent to a "high-impedance" / "unconnected" / "Z" output

Fails 1/2 tests

(Edit) - I thought the light grey, thick line on the background grid was a wire from "input" to the transistor's gate. It is not. You need to explicitly add a wire from "input" to gate :\

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