CRAFT Overlay — D1 — Welcome to Hardware Thinking¶

Date: Mon 5/25

🌍 Contextualize¶

"You're learning HDL in a city built by Gaudí — an architect who thought in parallel structures and modular repetition. Hardware description is the same discipline: you describe things that exist simultaneously."

⚠️ Reframe¶

"If You're Thinking Like a Programmer: HDL is just another programming language. Reframe: HDL describes physical hardware that runs in parallel. Every assign is a wire. Every always block is a circuit."

🔑 Key Insight¶

"In software, instructions execute one at a time. In hardware, everything happens at once. This is the single most important shift in thinking for this course."

🤖 Check the Machine¶

(None — Day 1 is pre-AI-thread. Introduce the concept: "Starting Day 4, we'll use AI as a verification tool.")

🔗 Transfer¶

"Tomorrow: the building blocks — data types, vectors, operators. The vocabulary of hardware description."

Back to Barcelona Day Plan Baseline D1 Materials

This overlay supplements the baseline D1 daily plan. All lab exercises and lecture content come from the baseline D1 materials.