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>Being able to think parallel. Software is sequential by default, HDL is parallel by default.

Totally. When working through the nand2tetris stuff, several of my designs fell on their face because I started thinking of multistep circuit logic as sequential, forgetting that junk results aren't discarded by the "flow" but that their values are always "evaluated" and fed into downstream logic.



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