CSEE4823x						Handout #34e
Prof. Steven Nowick					     12/2/16

     Project #2 FAQ:  the Minimalist Tool and Asynchronous Controllers

The following summarizes some questions/answers and clarifications
about the asynchronous portion of the project.

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Minimalist:  option settings for minimalist-speed, minimalist-area
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Q. What options should we use for minimalist-speed and minimalist-area
   in the mini-homework assignment? 

A. Check the commands (using 'help' mode) to see which parameters
   are automatically used by default, and which you have to 
   explicitly set.
   
   In any case, for minimalist-speed, use no-feedback,
   and either single-output or output-disjoint (the latter
   allows sharing of products between different outputs,
   but does not allow output logic to share next-state products
   to avoid extra load)

   For minimalist-area, use feedback and multi-output.


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Minimalist:  creating/displaying .bms specification (Postscript)
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Q.  How	do I graphically display the .bms specification?

A.  As a part of the homework (Handout #34d) on asynchronous controller design
using the Minimalist CAD tool, you are expected to use 'bms2ps' to display
the specification in a graphical format.

NOTE that, 'bms2ps' **only generates** the corresponding postscript (.ps)
file. To view the file, you must use Ghostview (gv) or any other equivalent
program for viewing postscript files.

For example,
If you have entered your specification in foo.bms, the first command will
generate foo.ps. The second command will display the file.

minimalist> bms2ps foo.bms
minimalist> gv foo.ps

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