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Re:Pure Silicon Demo Coding: No CPU, No Memory, Just 4k Gates by jayd16 on Monday December 22, 2025 @02:11PM (#46357611)
I would say that there's a difference between simply a stateful circuit using capacitors etc and a digital register, at least in so far as a "hey look what I made" kind of post.

I have no qualms saying a stateful device can have no memory in the addressable memory sense.

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Re:Pure Silicon Demo Coding: No CPU, No Memory, Just 4k Gates by RossBencina on Tuesday December 23, 2025 @07:23PM (#46371094)
> I have no qualms saying a stateful device can have no memory in the addressable memory sense.

I'm not sure where addressable comes in. A digital register is literally a flip-flop (or a bank of flip-flops). It's wired into a larger circuit the same way that a capacitor is.

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