Digital logic folks: I've been seeing a lot of 4/8-bit computer projects using TTL logic. From my limited FPGA experience I know that meeting timing is critical for a functioning design, yet on these simple projects, nobody seems to talk about this.
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On an FPGA the physical layout is fairly uniform and you can derive a "safe" timing model that is consistent (in practice you can often go much faster than the timing report says, but no guarantees). With breadboard designs, well, just try and see.
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Even at slow clocks though, you can definitely have timing and signal integrity problems. For example, bad clock routing can cause ringing/reflections and double-clocking of logic. In general mixing fast and slow logic can be a bad idea.
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