Comment Re:Accurate answer (Score 2) 365
Since they are translating a program/algorithm into circuitry, they need only to know the maximum number of gates that are used at any one cycle time (taking into account necessary time delays), so just adding all the gates per operation way over states the answer since and, not, or, etc. gate circuitry can be reused for different operations at another cycle time. Also, as for logic operations, run it through a Quine-McClusky optimization as well to minimize them.