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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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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If you use fast logic then it's going to have fast rise/fall times, and that higher dV/dt can cause problems with clocks or clock-like signals if the signal integrity is not up to par. Slower buffers can mitigate this at the expense of being, well, slower.
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